I’m hoping we can plan far enough in advance with a good meeting spot for everyone that we can get at least 15… maybe even 20 meat sacks to amble in!
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@invalid_signal and I are both in eastern Kansas and would gladly meetup with anyone else in the area.
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As long as it winds up being in the continental US (or really anywhere I guess if the flight price is right…) you can count me in! Perks of working remotely + in a weird industry haha.
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Just leaving this here 
ALTHOUGH
I may be in the USA in July
OR
Taiwan and Korea
Alternatively
The Cook Islands and Niue earlier in the year (February and March)
In April, I will probably be in Fiji
So if you could plan for any of those…
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I could definitely make it out to Iceland! Such an awesome place - pretty cheap to get to from the New York area as well.
Those are on my “interesting anomalous territories” bucket list. 
Definitely Iceland is the top of my pick list. It’s pretty accessible from most of the northern hemisphere, but you poor Aussies and Kiwis are in for a hell of a flight.
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So let’s get serious here… I really want to do something early in 2023 and I really think Iceland might be a good place to do it. I think there are even government incentives to bring tourism to Iceland?
Basically I’m feeling like we could put together an event in Iceland with a kind of co-op approach. I don’t want this to be a typical money making conference type event where the end goal is a profit margin on ticket sales. If we plan this out together, transparently, we can put together a true community event.
The alternative would be for dangerous things to present some kind of commercial conference event… but that is a ton of work and at the end of the day, very expensive for participants.
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I’ve emailed the tourism board of Iceland to see if there are any government grants or programs we might utilize to subsidize travel or events held in Iceland.
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Will be there in December.
I’d be willing to travel, but Iceland is a bit much for me
It is definitely an expensive place.
It’s a simple 34-44hr Flight with a stop over in Doha.
FYI
The longest flight in the world by distance is New York (JFK) to Singapore (SIN) on Singapore Airlines clocking in at 15348 Kilometers (9,527 miles)
The Auckland to Iceland flight has a stopover in Doha
Flight distance from Auckland to Doha (Auckland Airport – Hamad International Airport) 14535 kilometers (9,034 miles)
That’s only a difference of around ~800 kilometers (~500 miles)
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What about Hawaii? It’s kind of a middle ground for everyone.
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Hawaii is also very expensive especially early in the year. I remember getting breakfast at a chain restraunt for 4 people was $180 when I was there in January '19
I do like the idea of Hawaii though… maybe not the main island, and maybe not doing the tourist thing there but renting out a house for a weekend and we do a biohacker cookout kind of thing?
I like those months… February or March would be pretty good actually. For me anyway.
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Now that sounds like a lot of fun
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Yeah I think that’s the kind of spirit of the event I want to hold… not like a conference or some kind of corporate thing.
If Hawaii really is more central to everyone, I’ll start looking for some decent places to rent in those months.
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Ok who might be able to attend Biohacker Weekend in Hawaii in February or March? The idea is that we create a pot to cover shared housing and basic grocery store food for a weekend (arrive Friday night, fly home Sunday evening).
I realize you won’t be able to confirm or commit, I’m just trying to get an idea of the possible number of people interested. Step two will be to find accommodation for that many people at least, price it out, then we can figure out some costing from there and set a price per person. Then we will collect money and make the reservation and it’ll be on!
- Count me in!
- Sorry, can’t
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I understand that we are trying to accommodate people from other continents but that’s still going to be a bit spendy for me…
I’ll FaceTime I guess
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