South Bend (current “C”) is actually the site of Notre Dame and I have an uncle there who teaches in the Engineering Department. Could probably hook us up with facilities.
At the same time, realistically, I wouldn’t be able to do this any time in the next 5-10 years anyway unless it’s just me, @BrattyJedi, and @InkyBloc meeting somewhere in New Jersey. Or @Marx in Pittsburgh.
That’s true - around here it’s more of a “choose the closest Hub airport” as opposed to land distance. I think that’s Salt Lake, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit if you stick to the middle of the country?
Yeah, unless it’s a matter of “Literally an hour or less from my house,” I’m not realistically going to be able to make it for a few years yet.
A monthly synchronous session though… Discord group with rooms that can coordinate individually on BGA or TTS, fixed time, open invite. I can see that happening.
South bend is my home town. I vote for somewhere else.
The Atlantic might be an issue for most busses. 
Then again, Ottawa DOES have amphibious busses for tourist things and such… Hmmm…
I’m in Colorado Springs, CO… does that help? It’s pretty far east for me, having grown up in OR/WA 
I wouldn’t bother, still the stats are going to make it more than half a planet away…
If you want to have fun, Roger, include Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, NZ for a laugh
Oh, and Osaka. And I believe Phil is in Christchurch??
Anyone on the Moon to make it even more interesting? Maybe the ISS?
I’d be interested to see what Roger’s algorithm comes up with when all the antipodeans and Osaka gets added and the forum as a whole is done. In the initial discussion I eyeballed it at around Chad and would be interested to find if any of the results match that estimate at all. Presumably the clustering around the UK as a small island could cause some results that are quite swingy on the mean vs median vs whatever calculations.
For a worldwide calculation I really need to arrange things differently - convert each point into (x, y, z) space, construct centroids in three dimensions, and then project those in/out until they reach the surface of the Earth.
Bermuda’s nice.
You could add me in Kelowna, BC to pull it west again
Birmingham sounds good to me!
And I’m in Des Moines, Iowa.
I did the world position maths in my brain and the middle location turned out to be Cardiff.
If one of the Cardiff people wants to organise an event, I’ll go.
I don’t have the time to organise this now, but you’ve got me thinking.
If we’re all still here next year then remind me
