Wikimedia Technical Conference/2019/SmallGroupDinners

On the evening of Tuesday 12 November 2019 we will be splitting up into small groups of ideally between 5 and 8 people. These small groups will go out to different restaurants in the city of Atlanta.

Tips

Sign up to a group with people that you don't know very well yet.
If you are unable to find your dinner group or get separated during travel, then go directly to the restaurant instead.
If you are late, e-mail the group leader via their wiki username (or contact by other means) to let them know that you are traveling on your own.

Notes for group leaders

You must take a receipt at the restaurant. Write the names of everyone in attendance on the back for later.
Each group leader must submit an expense reimbursement to Wikimedia Foundation for the dinner. Rachel will send you the correct forms and template. When you submit the expense report, include an itemized receipt and a list of names of everyone who attended the dinner.
There is a $40 USD per-person maximum, including drinks, tip, and sales tax. If your group exceeds this amount, please ask the restaurant to split to bill so that the group can pay for the rest on their own.
- If you expect your dinner will very likely exceed $40 per-person, please say so below in your description so that participants can make informed decisions based on their ability to pay for this with a card, cash, or otherwise.
You should take care of any reservations needed on your own. If you need help, please ask someone from the organizing team so that we can help.
Meetings will end at 5:30pm at the Emory Center. You can meet in the lobby before going to the restaurant.
If the restaurant is not within walking distance, consider using Uber of Lyft for your group. If you cannot call a taxy yourself, please include this in the description.
You are welcome to include other optional plans along with your dinner (example: "Dinner at Restaurant, followed by optional walk around Downtown"), but WMF will not cover the costs of any other activities.

Previous examples of this process: from 2014, from 2016, from 2017

Restaurant suggestions (please add!)"

Tin LIzzy’s Cantina - Mexican, Southwestern, Bar, Vegetarian friendly
Aladdin’s Mediterranean Grill - Mediterranean, Vegetarian friendly
Papi’s Cuban & Caribbean Grill - Caribbean, Latin, Spanish, Cuban, Vegetarian friendly
Boruboru - Japanese, Sushi Bar, Poke, Asian, Vegetarian, Vegan, GF
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Ponce City Market - (No Group Lead)

Type of food: Large building with lots of restaurants and a really nice food hall. Including but not limited to Indian, Italian, Pizza, Latin, Burgers, Szechuan, Sushi, Mexian, Beer Garden, Cocktails, Juice Bar, Wine bar, lots of pastry shops.; "At the heart of Ponce City Market, the Central Food Hall is becoming the most vibrant food hall and market in the Southeast. James Beard Award-winning chefs the likes of Anne Quatrano, Linton Hopkins, and Sean Brock join Atlanta’s most exciting young purveyors and restauranteurs to offer everything from Georgia and Carolinas-caught seafood, to classic burgers, cold-pressed juice, house-made pasta and freshly milled heirloom grain bread. Similar to the legendary food hall at Chelsea Market in Manhattan—also owned by the developers of Ponce City Market—the Central Food Hall is a culinary gathering place within a revamped historic space, but with the distinct character and ﬂavors of Atlanta."
Menu: https://poncecitymarket.com/food-hall/

Meet and Transport: Meet in the lobby and organize taxis.

Total diners: Unlimited. This is a very large place.

Notes: Please include "can call a taxi" next to your name if you have a Lyft or Uber app. (You can expense the taxi ride)

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The General Muir - Amir E. Aharoni

Type of food: American, Deli, Vegetarian-friendly (possibly GF-friendly — please check the menu).; Why this place: I never visited Atlanta and I'm not familiar with it, but we're in America, so let's eat American. The menu, the Google maps reviews, and the beer selection look good. Also, it's very close to the venue. If we finish early, we can also go have some fun elsewhere, although I'm not familiar with the city at all.; Maybe, if for some reason we decide not to go to this place, we can go to Aladdin's nearby. The photos of the hummus and the pitas on the website look good.
Menu: http://www.thegeneralmuir.com/menu/DINNER

Meet and Transport: 6 PM at the lobby. It's a six-minute walk.

Total diners: 6. I want to also use the time for interesting conversation and six people is just enough. (Interesting conversation does not necessarily mean that it's about parsing and localization cache. We can also talk about structured data, frontend architecture, deployment scripts, rock music, and other things.)

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Thai cuisine - Timo Tijhof

Type of food: Thai, traditional setting, vegetarian-friendly. Known for having good spicy/chilli dishes. Mild versions exist also.
Menu: http://www.thaichilicuisine.com/#Dinner%20Menu; The appetiser menu features vegetarian rolls, tofu, salads, chicken, fish, and more.; The entrees and specials include various curry dishes, tofu and sautéed dishes, noodles, fried rice, seafood, and more.

Meet and Transport: 6:30 PM in the lobby, or 7:00 PM at the restaurant. The restaurant is 5 min by car from the venue (2.7 km / 1.6 mile). I will order Uber/Lyft as necessary. Some of you may also choose to walk, the route is mostly flat and would take 30-35min (walking route).

Total diners: 8

Timo Tijhof
Stephen Niedzielski
Joaquín Oltra Hernández
DKinzler (WMF) (talk)
Jdforrester (WMF) (talk)
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Desta Ethiopian Kitchen - Kosta Harlan

Type of food: "Popular Ethiopian spot offering a variety of exotic dishes, including ample vegetarian options", says Google.
Menu: https://destaethiopiankitchen.com/atlanta-druid-hills-desta-ethiopian-kitchen-food-menu; For those curious about Ethiopian food, Antoine is from France and granted an Ethiopian menu: best dinner ever.

Meet and Transport: 6:30 PM at the lobby or 6:45 PM at the restaurant. This is a 0.3 mile (~7 minute) walk from the conference center.; - If you have a phone that works in the US can you call to make a reservation for 8? I've emailed the venue just now but a phone call is probably more effective. KHarlan (WMF) (talk) 16:56, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Total diners: 9

Notes

Kosta Harlan
Antoine "hashar" Musso
Leszek Manicki (WMDE) (talk)
Physikerwelt (talk) 13:39, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Brennen Bearnes
Birgit Müller
Greg (WMF) (talk) 16:57, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
PMiazga (WMF) (talk) 17:02, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Jeena Huneidi

BORUBORU - Bryan Davis

Type of food: Fast casual sushi bowls, poke bowls and sushi burritos
Menu: https://boruboru.com/

Meet and Transport: 6:45 PM at the lobby or 7:00 PM at the restaurant. This is a 0.2 mile/0.3 km (~4 minute) walk from the conference center. (google map)

Total diners: 8 (likely to sit as two 4 person tables)

Papi's Cuban & Caribbean Grill - WaNBiTS

Note that this dinner is specifically intended for the WaNBiTS Resource Group.

Type of food: Cuban and Caribbean food (with vegetarian options), also has drinks
Menu: http://papisgrill.com/menu/

Meet and Transport - TUESDAY!: 6:30 PM at the lobby or 6:45 PM at the restaurant. It's a 6 minute walk from the conference center.

Total diners: 9 people

Kaldari (talk)
MSchottlender-WMF (talk) 21:27, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
CCicalese (WMF) (talk) 21:31, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
NKohli (WMF) (talk)
DTankersley (WMF) (talk) 23:34, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Elena Tonkovidova
BStorm (WMF) (talk) 16:32, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Mónica Pinedo (WMDE) (talk)
Aubrey Williams

The White Bull - Dan Andreescu

American, Italian, Farm to table: New take on southern food with an Italian inspiration
https://whitebullatl.com/: https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-white-bull-decatur

Meet and Transport

Meet at 18:15 at hotel to coordinate who goes in what car, we have enough space for everyone:

Dan has a car
Grant has a car

Total diners: Confirmed reservation for 8 at 18:30

Dan Andreescu
Rachel Farrand
- Grant Ingersoll (I have a car)
Pchelolo (talk) 16:56, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Volker E. (WMF) (talk) 16:57, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 16:58, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Misaochan (talk) 17:01, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
TCipriani (WMF) (talk) 17:02, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Torched Hop Brewing - Erika Bjune

Type of food: Variety of standard American foods with a lot of options, and locally brewed beer.
Menu: https://www.torchedhopbrewing.com/menu

Meet and Transport: Meet in the lobby at 6:30, will need to take a couple of taxis/lyfts/ubers; The location is close to downtown Atlanta, about 4 miles from the venue.

Total diners: Maximum of 8 people, hopefully we can fit in two cars if there are that many folks.

Notes

Erika Bjune
Tobi G. (WMDE)
addshore
ZFilipin (WMF) (talk) 21:11, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
JR Branaa
Sam Wilson
Kelson (talk)
Máté Szabó

Restaurant Name - Group Leader Name

Type of food: Description
Menu: plaintext Link

Meet and Transport: Meeting time and location, + length of walk or any transport details (taxi, or public transport, etc).; If you need to order Lyft of Uber and need other attendees to help call a car please also indicate.

Total diners: Maximum number of people (including yourself) that can join. Limit might be imposed by # of people that can fit in a taxi, reservation size, or group you would like. Please try not to exceed 8 people.

Notes: Anything else you want people to know. For example: Please include "can call a taxi" next to your name if you have a Lyft or Uber app. (You can expense the taxi ride)

Put your own name first
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Stop at the maximum number of people that can attend.

Restaurant Name - Group Leader Name

Type of food: Description
Menu: plaintext Link

Meet and Transport: Meeting time and location, + length of walk or any transport details (taxi, or public transport, etc).; If you need to order Lyft of Uber and need other attendees to help call a car please also indicate.

Total diners: Maximum number of people (including yourself) that can join. Limit might be imposed by # of people that can fit in a taxi, reservation size, or group you would like. Please try not to exceed 8 people.

Notes: Anything else you want people to know. For example: Please include "can call a taxi" next to your name if you have a Lyft or Uber app. (You can expense the taxi ride)

Put your own name first
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Stop at the maximum number of people that can attend.

Restaurant Name - Group Leader Name

Type of food: Description
Menu: plaintext Link

Meet and Transport: Meeting time and location, + length of walk or any transport details (taxi, or public transport, etc).; If you need to order Lyft of Uber and need other attendees to help call a car please also indicate.

Total diners: Maximum number of people (including yourself) that can join. Limit might be imposed by # of people that can fit in a taxi, reservation size, or group you would like. Please try not to exceed 8 people.

Notes: Anything else you want people to know. For example: Please include "can call a taxi" next to your name if you have a Lyft or Uber app. (You can expense the taxi ride)

Put your own name first
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Stop at the maximum number of people that can attend.