• Sydney Meet 2002
  
  Those Aussies sure enjoy a good pi... err... meet! Another one has been organised on the
  
  13^th April, to be held at the at the Carlisle Castle Hotel in Newtown
  at 2pm 'ish'.
  
  Sign up Here if you would like to attend.

• Reading Meetup May 11th 2002
  
  If you live anywhere near Reading The Fish and other h2g2ers would be delighted to see you on11^th May. Details and sign-up fora can be found here.

• Scottish Spring/Summer Meet 2002
  
  Plans are well underway for the next Scottish Meet. The date is now firmly set as
  
  11^th May, the venue, this time, being Edinburgh. Hie along to the Scottish Summer Meet 2002 page to sign up, make suggestions for
  
  activities or to find out who has already expressed an interest.

• South-west England Meet 2002 (child-friendly)
  
  The main meet-up is to be at The Eden Project, on 22^nd June 2002. As it is a long way for some researchers to travel, we're going to make a weekend of it! If you have any other ideas or suggestions, please let us know.
  
  This is going to be a family-friendly/all-ages meet, so researchers with children, or young researchers with parents(!), can all come along and have fun! For more details visit the South-west England Meet homepage.

• Hampshire Meet
  'Somewhen during the course of the year we hope to organise a meet up for all researchers in
  
  Hampshire. We are thinking of holding it somewhere in the New Forest and would like to go to a KFC
  
  (Due to the availability of sporks). If you know of anywhere then please suggest it.'
  
  With these words Happy Little Elf introduced the possibility and two
  
  threads began. Visit the Hampshire Meet page to sign up and also
  
  check out this
  
  forum.

• The Pennsylvania Dutch Meet
  
  So far the only plans appear to involve meeting somewhere in south-central Pennsylvania during the weekend of 2^nd - 4^th August. It's still early days, though and we're sure to have more details soon. More information and a chance to sign up can be found Here

The Environmental Society welcomes all h2g2 and sense-of-place site members, to the brand new Environmental Society. This hopes to be a place where members of all the various dna sites can come together and meet others with an interest in the environment.

This new club lists its proposed goals as:

1. To bring together motorbike riding researchers so we can discuss bike stuff, organise H2G2 MC ride days, race days (spectator or participant), and of course pub research.
2. To provide a reference point for motorbike related guide entries, issues, and advice.
3. To have a club patch and smiley for club members available on H2G2. And some more motorbike pictures.

Featured in an article in this edition of The Post, this new venture aims to award members of the H2G2 community for outstanding service to the English language, though wit, word play, or a particularly apt, imaginative, or fitting turn of phrase during conversations or entries on H2G2. They are to reward verbal dexterity, rapier wit, or just a delicious turn of phrase!

Read the piece and then hurry to The H2G2 Wilde Awards page to submit your nominations.

The GerMania Connection has re-opened its doors and is seeking any researchers based in or around Germany with a view to possibly arranging another meet. Please get in touch if this applies to you

The newly founded Bureau of Missing Researchers has been created by Aljiis to keep track of which h2g2ers have gone AWOL and which have returned to the fold. If you know of someone who has disappeared or, more happily, returned to h2g2, then please drop by and let Aljiis know.

The Orchard, a new group for Mac users, is now up and

running. The general idea is to get you Mac users in touch with each other as a source of mutual

support and amusement. So, don't be shy, stand up and make yourselves known!

Does your family teeter in that half-life called parenthood? Do you feel the need to share your

experiences? If so, The Post is pleased to introduce the H2G2 Parent and

Child Group

Whether coping with babies, toddlers or teenagers, this is just the place to swop horror stories and coo

over new arrivals.

• Do you like antiques? More to the point, do you like 'Bargain Hunt' and its host? If so, why not drop around to the The H2G2 David Dickinson 'Club' and sign up for membership. Although currently 'under construction', this promises to be a fun place to visit.

• Captain Venom is attempting to introduce new life into the
  
  old h2g2 Space Center. The Starpilot Hotel Space Station is a
  
  sparkling new venue affiliated to the original H2G2 Space
  
  Centre.

• Attention all Researchers interested in or developing GuideML editing
  software of any kind: the GuideML Editor Writers'
  Caffeine Machine is now open for business. The aim is to provide
  a central location for discussion, help and collaboration among GuideML
  editor writers, with the intention of improving all GuideML editors
  across the world.

• purplejenny has set up the People for Peace page.

• a girl called Ben offers an insight into meditation on her
  
  The Loving Kindness Meditation page.

The Post Links Page points you towards the best of h2g2. Everything from information and campaigns to eating and drinking venues, virtual lands or clubs.

The Post Archives are a repository for all things Post related. Divided into easy-to-use categories, they get bigger at a frightening pace. Well worth a visit, whether to re-read a favourite article or catch up on something you missed.

All entries for this feature should be mailed to shazzPRME. Please mark the subject 'Announcements'.

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