LAVA BBQ 2017 - Official Information

[JeremyMarquis]

Greetings Friends of LAVA, colleagues, cohorts, and Wireworkers Extraordinaire -- it's LAVA BBQ time!

Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Time: 7:00-10:00 pm 

Location: Scholz Garten, 1607 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, TX 78701 (1 mile from Convention Center)

Cost:

• $30 Early Bird (until May 6th)

• $35 Regular Admission (until May 22nd)

• $40 At the door (May 22nd - 23rd)

Meal Options: Expect to enjoy your choice of meats (ribs, brisket, turkey) with sides like beans, cole slaw, and potato salad.  There is always plenty of food. A vegetarian option is available when purchasing tickets. Cash bar, beer and wine.

Who: Everyone is welcome, including spouses traveling with you. Even if it's your first time, expect to recognize many faces/names from the forums and NI R&D.

What to wear: It's an outdoor venue in Austin during Spring. So dress for the weather and comfort.

Door Prizes: We will have a drawing to give away prizes. All attendees are eligible and will receive a door prize ticket upon entry.  See below about sponsoring a door prize yourself to share the love.

 

 

 

get tickets on

The LAVA BBQ 2017 Event Page

 

Do you want to sponsor a door prize? - Continue Reading:

If you or your company want to sponsor a LAVA BBQ door prize, please post a reply below. You can also include a small blurb about your company and a link to your website in the post below. By donating a prize you and your company will receive a small announcement of your choosing, during the event. We will ask you to write the announcement on a post-it note and will attach it to the prize to be read before awarding it.

We love the door prizes, but we love time for socializing too.  Here are some guidelines to keep our event balanced and streamlined.

• We would prefer a single item donation. If donating more than one item, then multiple identical items is strongly preferred.
• So we don't spend our time on a flood of refrigerator magnets, please donate something valued at $25 or more.
• If donating non-tangible items or something that is not physically with you, then please bring a card with your contact info and instructions on how to collect the prize. This will be given to the winner.
• All prizes are acceptable except those listed below (examples from 2015 and 2016):

Not recommended:

• Apparel (hats, t-shirts, underwear etc)
• Branded trade show booth type giveaways (mouse pads, pens, keychains etc)
• Software licenses (Toolkits, add-ons, LabVIEW)
• Jokes or something meant as a gag and not a real prize

 

Hope to see you there! Chime in once you buy tickets to let everyone know you're coming.

Edited April 21, 2017 by JeremyMarquis

[ACS]

I miss the ribs.  Any chance we can get some this year?

[JeremyMarquis]

We have upgraded sausage to ribs!

Every time I work on this I get hungry.  Mmm, ribs...

[swjunckie]

First-Timer.  Looking forward to the occasion. 

[AutoMeasure]

Will be happily attending this BBQ with you guys!  This will be my first NIWeek after almost making the trip every year. 

Joe

 

[kelseyweaver]

Hi Jeremy! 

First time attendee as well - looking forward to the event.

You may want to edit the .ics file for the calendar invite. It shows up as 8-11PM on my calendar. 

Thanks,
Kelsey

[jacobson]

Excited for the best event at NIWeek.

Are you going to be able to top Matt and Norm's Yo LabVIEW jokes from last year though?

[JeremyMarquis]

Attention procrastinators:

Early Bird pricing ends this week!  

[Ching-Hwa Yu]

Texas Instruments will be donating two SimpleLink™ Bluetooth® low energy CC2640R2F wireless MCU LaunchPad™ development kits.

Complete details at http://www.ti.com/tool/launchxl-cc2640r2

 

[Ed Dickens]

Are there contingency plans in case of rain? 

Also, I have last minute surprise door prize.