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Your Seat at the Meetup?

The June 14th meetups are going to take place all over the world. I want to show the range of people and meetings and ideas with a video, and I need your help.

Please bring your video camera and/or regular camera and get some footage of your meetup. It can be just a few shots showing your neighbor linchpins being indispensable, or even better if you could grab a few quotes or moments of brilliance in action. I hope we can see a variety of cultures to be reminded that linchpins are everywhere.

Also, I’m looking for lizard footage!
REALLY!

I ask that you take care of legalities (i.e. please make sure you have permission to record/photograph people), and plan on sending me just your best material (there will probably be a limit of five minutes of video footage).

I will offer credit to everyone who submits material wether I use it or not. The final video will be featured here on Linchpin Magazine, and will also be posted on YouTube and Vimeo.

Please comment below if you have any ideas or suggestions, otherwise I look forward to seeing your stuff next week!

Linchpins are everywhere: Kamil Ali

Kamil Ali, Lahore, Pakistan

Kamil Ali

Website/email/twitter
Website: http://www.kamilali.com/
Email: kamilriz@ymail.com
twitter: KamilTweets

Linchpin Meetup venue and time
Venue: Skype
Time: 9:00 pm (Pakistan time)
(Find out more from the Linchpin Meetup page.)

How many people are you expecting?  9 People

Why did you decide to organize a Linchpin meetup?  I’m passionate about taking initiatives, distributing knowledge and experience. In my country, everyone is not aware of the total Linchpin idea, yet the “giving gift” idea is the part of our culture and religion. 

What are you hoping to get out of the meetup?  A group of “real” friends. Who really are passionate about learning, teaching and helping others for free. 

Are you a linchpin?  I think I have been before even reading the book, Linchpin. This book has strengthen the idea that what does it really mean to be indispensable.

Linchpins are everywhere: Anne McCrossan

Anne McCrossan, London, UK

Anne McCrossan

Website/email/twitter

Website: http://www.facebook.com/l/041c0;www.visceralbusiness.com
Email: anne@visceralbusiness.com
twitter: Annemcx

London Linchpins Venue: The Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, SE1.
Please check the London Linchpins meetup page for details on the day. 

How many people are you expecting?  151 at the moment and hopefully more 

Why did you decide to organize a Linchpin meetup?  I opened my email, looked at the London meetup, it had a couple of people coming but no-one leading so it seemed like the thing to do. To be honest I was half asleep at the time. 

What are you hoping to get out of the meetup?  Everyone who comes has a buzz by being there, that people get inspired, synapses start firing, they make interesting connections and we have a great time. 

Are you a linchpin?   A linchpin is only a linchpin in the eyes of others. Linchpin in training maybe, working on it.

Linchpins are everywhere: Walter Pike

Walter Pike, Johannesburg, South Africa

Walter Pike

Website/email/twitter
Blog: walterpike.com
Web: pike.co.za
Email: walter@pike.co.za
twitter: walterpike

Linchpin Meetup venue and time: Johannesburg, South Africa.
Primi Extreme, Design Quarter, William Nicol Drive, Fourways.

How many people are you expecting?  30 – 40

Why did you decide to organize a Linchpin meetup?  Seemed like a good idea at the time.

What are you hoping to get out of the meetup? Really just meeting other people with a similar mindset and to help and inspire

Are you a linchpin? I do things, I have lots of people who support me, I take many risks and have made a difference - I think

Linchpins are everywhere: Andrew Nash

Andrew Nash, Vienna, Austria 

Andrew Nash

Website/email/twitter 
Website: www.andynash.com
Email: andy@andynash.com
twitter: andrewbnash

Linchpin Meetup details:  Monday June 14, 2010, 20:00. Exact venue to be determined. (You’ll find out about the venue on the Linchpin Meetups page for Vienna.) 

How many people do you expect: 10 

Why did you decide to organize a Linchpin Meetup? Linchpin helps explain what’s happening in the world and what we can do about it. Part of being a linchpin is creating a community to expand and support these ideas. 

What are you hoping to get out of the meetup? We hope to learn more about being linchpins, how we can support each other in our efforts to becoming linchpins and how to spread the message. 

Are you a linchpin? There’s a famous expression in Austria: NaJa … literally No-Yes … that sums up how I feel about whether or not I am a linchpin. 

A big thank you to Andrew for being our first featured organizer. More will follow.

(Like Andrew’s portrait? Read all about it.)

150 people per day signing up for linchpin meet ups

In the last 24 hours the number of people signed up to attend Linchpin meet ups went from c. 5,200 to 5,350 across 766 meet ups. Of the 10 largest meet ups, only 2 are outside the US, London and Vancouver. The 10 largest meet up account for 17% of those attending. There is a very long tail  – 653 meet ups, 85%,  have 10 people or fewer.

Although I’m signed up to go to the London meet up, I think it would be great to go one of the smaller meet ups. To spend the evening in the company of 4 or 5 linchpins and really get to know them – I think that will be a special experience. I’m looking forward to reading about those experiences in the magazine.

While I was writing this 3 more people signed up – 5,353 and counting.

The next time two people meet, the result could be different . . .

From Theodore Zeldin:

It is in the power of everybody, with a little courage, to hold out a hand to someone different, to listen, and to attempt to increase, even by a tiny amount, the quantity of kindness and humanity in the world. But it is careless to do so without remembering how previous efforts have failed, and how it has never been possible to predict for certain how a human being will behave. History, with its endless procession of passers-by, most of whose encounters have been missed opportunities, has so far been largely a chronicle of ability gone to waste. But next time two people meet, the result could be different. That is the origin of anxiety, but also of hope, and hope is the origin of humanity.

Over 5,000 people registered for Linchpin meet ups

It’s really quite phenomenal. With around a week and half to go until the meetup, there are over 5,000 people registered. If everybody attends for 3 hours, there will 625 ‘people days’ of conversation. Think of the energy and inspiration that can be transferred between humans in that time.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw

Rules for submissions

There are always pesky rules. Without wanting to hamper your creativity, below are the ones that we insist on.

General

1. We can only accept text and/or graphics for publication in the magazine itself. Remember: the magazine will be printed and that fact imposes certain limitations on what we can accept. We will publish an extended version of the magazine on LinchpinMagazine.com – we would love to receive well put together and edited video content to include in the extended version.
2. You can submit as many entries as you want.
3. Remember the topic: this is Linchpin Magazine and its all about the Linchpin Meetups on June 14th. Inspirations, experiences, ideas, things you learned – please share!
4. Please include you name, city, job title, website or other contact details and, if you want, a portrait (300×300 pixels at 300dpi or larger) so that we can credit your contribution.
5. Only submit items that you have created.
6. While you own the copyright of your own, individual pieces, the copyright of the magazine as printed belongs to the editorial team.
7. We only have so many pages and might have to make a selection of which material we include. We will be looking for material that’s original and insightful and that we think will be of most benefit to the tribe. It’s painful, but necessary. Luckily, LinchpinMagazine.com doesn’t have such restrictions so we’ll add items that didn’t make it into print here, providing they are sufficient quality.

Text

1. Please keep written pieces down to below 750 words. An ideal piece is around 250 words or shorter. The shorter your contribution, the more of them we can include. The format is open: we would love to receive poems, slogans, one-liners and articles equally. We’re looking for remarkable, creative contributions.
2. Text may not retain formatting. We’ll try (but can’t promise) to keep bold, italics and underlines but fonts and sizes may have to conform to the norm during the layout process.

Graphics

1. Only submit images that you have originated (that is, images you have taken or drawn, painted or otherwise created).
2. Please send images as high-resolution JPGs – minimum printing quality is 300dpi. Higher is better. We want you to shine, not pixelate.
3. We might have to shrink images but will contact you if we want to crop or otherwise edit them. We’re not planning on doing any image manipulation, but what we need to do depends on what we get.

To submit your entries, email them to shipped@linchpinmagazine.com. This email will email address will be closed at Midnight, PST (Pacific Standard time) on Wednesday June 16th. This is 7am GMT.