[macintux]

The only way to be informed of public events relevant to my interests is via Facebook, sadly.

So either I can be there and find out about them, or I can hope someone I know notices them and notifies me.

Both are terrible options.

[mikestaub]

You may be interested in my side project, peapods.com. The beta will launch soon.

[macintux]

It definitely looks interesting.

One challenge I face, though, is that I'm unwilling to let my Facebook account break out of its silo by linking it to anything else (and of course I'd love to kill it entirely) so event discovery becomes more challenging without the private groups I'm currently a member of and family/friends information FB currently holds.

[Zelphyr]

This looks really interesting. From what I gather, the intent is to encourage real physical interaction?