Reminder: San Francisco reader meetup tonight!

Tonight's the big night, SF bay area! Our FREE and ALL AGES reader meetup goes off at 7PM at UCSF Mission Bay, where we'll have:

• Free food and drinks
• Product demos
• Audience Q&A with execs and Engadget editors
  
• ... and will be giving away literally hundreds of devices -- tens of thousands of dollars of gadgets.

Hit the read link for details -- hope to see you there!

We'd also like to thank the premium event sponsor of our San Francisco event, the Bluetooth SIG, who've been instrumental in getting this thing off the ground!

[tgrove @ Oct 10th 2007 4:18PM]

you guys need to come to south florida

[305 @ Oct 10th 2007 5:09PM]

ain't that the truth. MIA ftw.

[blade417 @ Oct 10th 2007 4:18PM]

Come to pittsburgh, pa next time....

or just mail me a helio ocean

please?

[brownday @ Oct 10th 2007 4:23PM]

is this event free?

[Ryan Block @ Oct 10th 2007 4:30PM]

Of course! And all ages.

[Anthony @ Oct 10th 2007 4:48PM]

All ages, huh? Not so interested. Nothing I like better than talking about gadgets while cursing, drinking & watching things that would certainly not be appropriate for all ages.

My therapist feels her car/house/boat payments are secure.

[Zach @ Oct 10th 2007 4:33PM]

Shoot. I'm in Virginia.

[rzlmlchm009 @ Oct 10th 2007 4:58PM]

Nah. I'm in Utah, and I don't have that good of an aim. :)

[Zach @ Oct 10th 2007 5:08PM]

You get a wit brownie point.

[fitinferno @ Oct 10th 2007 4:49PM]

London meetup next! Please? :)

[spass @ Oct 10th 2007 4:54PM]

I am bringing my bricked iPhone, you guys are offering free tech assistance on Apple products, right?

[Sandeep @ Oct 10th 2007 5:22PM]

Yknow, two of the USA's top three cities (New York and Chicago) would appreciate and Engadget meetup. How about hooking us up?

[Boynamedsue @ Oct 10th 2007 5:56PM]

does free drinks mean beer? I like free gadgets, but i like free beer more.

[Josh @ Oct 10th 2007 6:05PM]

You guys need to do one in Los Angeles!
Please.

[roger_huston @ Oct 10th 2007 6:38PM]

Be nice that when you post reminders about this sort of stuff that your post the address or at least a link back to the original article. That way people don't have to go fishing around for stuff.

- Roger

[CleftAsunder @ Oct 10th 2007 7:17PM]

NYC!!!

[Kiteless Dragon @ Oct 10th 2007 7:54PM]

I am like totally here waiting in line!

- K

[zedaristo @ Oct 10th 2007 7:57PM]

so are we, we're sitting infront of the glass display case

[Phil @ Oct 10th 2007 8:48PM]

A lot of people? I'm down the street still at work...trying to decide when I should bail

[David Scott @ Oct 10th 2007 9:06PM]

I need a ride home to Mill Valley. Anyone heading back to Marin or Sonoma afterwards? You can drop me on the freeway bus pad.

[IRONVULVA @ Oct 11th 2007 12:18AM]

Well that was a waste of time! :D

[IRONVULVA @ Oct 11th 2007 12:18AM]

(no offense)

[John @ Oct 11th 2007 12:37AM]

Sweet! got the Sansa AND the FoneGear Mini Blu bluetooth headset :)

[Reikon @ Oct 11th 2007 1:29AM]

That was pointless. Waaaaay too crowded and not much to do.

[C Lobo Soriano @ Oct 11th 2007 1:43AM]

dangit, i'm so pissed i missed this. so...was there free beer? make me more upset buy saying yes ;-)

[jygsaw @ Oct 11th 2007 2:07AM]

By the time I got in free drinks had become $3 drinks. Also, it was way too crowded in there.

[CaliforniaKid @ Oct 11th 2007 2:14AM]

Heck of a long line to get it. Reportedly 700 people tried to squeeze into a 200-300 person room. Tasty party food! Got a free Flicker account. Wa-hoo! Interesting to see the Endgadget demographic, which looked to be 97% male, mid-20s to mid-30s. Thanks Engadget!

[Kris @ Oct 11th 2007 2:28AM]

Don't worry guys. This thing was a joke. The event was clearly planned for about 100 people max instead of the 1000+ that showed up. It was held in one small room in which we all stood like caged chickens.

There were a handful of vendor displays, but nothing worth fighting through the crowd or spending more than 30 seconds at. People bickered like starving peasants over the tiny bit of free food offered. Beer was long gone by 7:05.

The giveaways were pretty decent (didn't win anything myself, though), but that's about the only positive I can think of. I really regret driving an hour each way from Santa Clara. I love Engadget and will continue to be a loyal reader, but I'll obviously never attend another event like this.

[mervert @ Oct 11th 2007 3:14AM]

HaHa! I made out like a pirate tonight, I feel like J-lo with all this booty I got! I was one of the few, the chosen, this great evening, getting in line at 5:00pm; a little hand printed sticker with the number '114' soon turned into a $250 dollar Sansa wi-fi mp3 player! I also picked up a tiny bluetooth headset, a t-shirt from one of the Jawbone developers that says "iBone", and some other neat little swag packed into my Sansa knapsack! Oh, did I mention free food AND beer? Thanks Engadget & peeps, you made my night!

[Matt @ Oct 11th 2007 8:23PM]

sounds like it was a good time, now come to CLEVELAND!!!