Or just make it N-Italy, next christmas? :whistle:

if i may step my "spoon in this soup" :whistle: i think it should be somewhere around Frankfurt, because (if my ruler is ok) it is the closest place which can be called the "center of Europe" (someone correct me if i' m wrong)

Well - I do live fairly close by and have my own place (not to big, but could offer the shelter for the night :whistle: ).

sadly it wouldnt work out

how big is your car? :bleh:

Why do you want to know, Braindead? You don't live between Cologne and Zagreb anyway, do you?:P

Regarding shelter, everyone is invited to stay at my place in Zagreb in case this could work out.

Having attended several HOTU meetings, I recommend having an Abandonia one as well. The FinnCons we've had have been fun, and it's great to see who the people behind the nicks and avatars actually are. And meeting people you've known a long time online is like meeting close friends.

The biggest problem we've had has been finding a suitable date, but in a way or another that has always been sorted out (like by having the meeting a year late..).

I probably wouldn't/couldn't come to Zagreb, but would definitely be interested to hear how it went. And the compromising photography is always a nice treat. ;)

There would be a lot of photos, that's for sure. If we could just somehow arrange it...

Then I'll suggest some dates - the rest of you decide:

Earliest date - last weekend in October (Friday 29th - Sunday 31st)
February 2006
Summer of 2006

(See the farther away the date - the less specific it is...)

It would be great if as many as possible could meet - even if we simply had a few local meetings (Scandinavian meeting, Central European meeting, north-american east-coast meeting,... and so on). And then we'd all share how it went :ok: