Piratetub!!! Sponsored By Pirate Media & 2vouch

Location & Sponsor Updates

Avast, me hearties! It be PirateTUB come September 19th!

When: 5:30pm Friday 19 September
Where: 3 Fisher Lane Fitzroy
Provided: Food & drinks (beer, alcopops, wine & soft drink if you want anything else BYO)
Dress: Pirates and Wenchs
Sponsors:

* Pirate Media (perfect sponsors for an event like this don’t you think??)
* 2Vouch

As always, if you are coming please let us know on the Facebook PirateTUB page we know this one is going to be big so please please please let us know if you are coming so we can get enough food & drinks!!

Mtub#12 - Proudly Sponsored By The Inquisitr

Join us for MTUB #12, yes that means we have been going for over a year now!

We are moving locations to The Workshop as the venue seemed to work well for MTUB#11

As always have a look at the Facebook event, sign up if you are coming, so we know how many to expect. (Or if you don’t do Facebook, leave a comment.)

When: 5:30pm Thursday 26 June
Where: The Workshop Bar Level 1 413 Elizabeth St (entrance on A’Beckett St)
Sponsor: The Inquisitr (http://www.inquisitr.com/)

Melbourne based The Inquisitr offers a daily does on tech, pop and odd/ funny news from around the world. Headed by b5media founder and former TechCrunch writer Duncan Riley, The Inquisitr’s writing staff of four provide 24 hour coverage of things that matter…well most of the time.

Last Minute Mini-mtub

Yes the regular MTUB is next week 22nd May, but some of us just can get enough! Well actually @IanKath from Brisbane is in town & for some reason wants to meet up with some Melbourne Twitter peeps!

If you are free for a drink Friday night pop on down to FAD Gallery from 6pm, yes the location of the @lu_lu mini MTUB.

When: 6pm Friday 16 May
Where: FAD Gallery, 14 Corrs Lane Melbourne (in Chinatown)
What to bring: Yourself, a sense of fun & cash for drinks

Mtub #10

Update: We have a late sponsor MacTalk

MTUB hits double digits this months, yes there have been other mini’s but they don’t count. (@Thommo we know you find the mini’s harder to recovered from but they still don’t count.)

MTUB #9 was fantastic, we started at the Coopers Inns and then trucked off to see Spicks & Specks at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

This month we are back to the Horse Bazaar.

As aways have a look at the Facebook event, sign up if you are coming, so we know how many to expect. (Or if you don’t do Facebook, leave a comment.)

When: 5:30pm Thursday 17 April
Where: Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne
Sponsors: MacTalk http://www.mactalk.com.au check them out!!

Mtub Goes To “spicks And Speck-tacular”

As a change to the usual meeting at Horse Bazaar,the idea of going to see the “Spicks and Speck-tacular” at the Melbourne Comedy Festival was floated, voted and agreed on!

So here’s the plan:-

Pre Drinks
When: 5:30pm (till 9:30pm) Thursday 27 March
Where: Coopers Inn 282 Exhibition Street Melbourne http://www.coopersinn.com.au/ Ph:03 9639 2111

“Spicks and Speck-tacular”
When: 9:30pm session on Thursday 27 March
Where: The Comedy Theatre Cnr Exhibition and Lonsdale Sts, Melbourne
Tickets: Ticketek 132 849 & at the door

Price:
Full $49.90
Conc $44.90

Details can be found here. http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/season/2008/show/16/

Mtub #8, 21 February 2008

While some MTUB’ers are still dusting themselves off from the mini @lu_lu event (photos to prove it took place) planning is well underway for MTUB #8, the 4th get together of 2008!

The February event we will have Twitter T-Shirts to giveaway, you know to ones seen here & here. (@andrewsayer you want one you are going have to turn up and win one!)

Once again we have a look at the Facebook event, sign up if you are coming, so we know how many to expect.

When: 5:30pm Thursday 21 February
Where: Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne
Sponsors: Yes, we are just not saying who it is, yet!

Mtub Gear Available Now!

MTUB have pared up with CafePress to bring you a stunning line of MTUB Gear!

All profits from sales in this store go directly to the bar tab for the monthly MTUB Meetups so spend up big!

If you have any other ideas or are a keen designer who can whip up a stunning design for us, please drop us a line!

Twitter T Shirts @mtub

Your friendly MTUB organisers have begged, borrowed and… well lets leave it there, to get you some free Twitter swag. What is it? T Shirts!

We have secured a limited supply of shirts for both boys and girls, available as prizes at the Feb 2008 event, date TBD. In the meantime you can view them on Flickr, please excuse the model our budget didn’t allow for professionals :-).

How do you get you hands on such an item, turn up! To find out about future events subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter.

(We are also working on more T-Shirt goodness so stay tuned.)

Photo Gallery Now Live!

In a flurry of activity over the weekend by Will we now have a sweet Flickr powered photo gallery!

If you have any photos from an MTUB meetup, please upload them to flicker and tag them with the keyword ‘MTUB’

Mtub & Flickr

Folks, we are looking for some photos of Melbourne Twitter meetups!

If you have any, can you please stick them on Flickr and add the tag ‘MTUB‘ so that we can automagicly pull them out and add them to this blog!