[SiliconAlley]

Thanks! I thought about astroturfing my area with accounts just to make it not look like a ghost town, but felt it was against the spirit. I felt the best thing that I could do in this respect would be to make sign-up as frictionless and semi-anonymous as I could (plus let people toggle on and off account visibility) because I and most other tech folk I know are hyper-protective of their identity online. One of the huge turn-offs of Coder's Coffee for me was mandatory sign-up-via-linkedin. My modest goal for the end of the week is to make one local appointment for myself.