Come on out to MegaSquirt Meet 2011!

[FoundSoul]

We've been working hard at planning a cool meet this year. It's always a good time and often has been had at DIYAutoTune HQ in Suwanee, GA, but this year we wanted to make it a bit more fun, so we're taking the MegaMeet up to Road Atlanta in combination with the Classic MotorSports Mitty! It's 3 days of racing and good times. All the core MegaSquirt developers/engineers will be there, we'll have a few tech presentations/discussions, and just hang out and enjoy the racing!

Full details can be found at: http://www.DIYAutoTune.com/events/megameet_2011.htm

Here's an excerpt:


When: Meet will be Saturday April 30th, 2011 -- We'll be hanging out in the area Thursday 28th thru Sunday the May 1st. See schedule below.
Where:  Road Atlanta in Braselton, GA. Just 30 minutes from DIYAutoTune HQ.
What:  The Annual MegaMeet is the opportunity to come and hang out with all of the major car geeks that make the MegaSquirt project happen. Just about everyone that's played a major role in the project from early on, which of course includes Bowling and Grippo and most of the masses of contributors that have made this project possible. If you can think of a name that you've heard, a firmware / tuning software / etc coder or contributor, or documentation person, or support guy, or just hardcore 'when I bleed it MegaSquirts out of my body' type of guys/gals they will very likely be there. We've had people travel from all over the US, come down from Canada, and from as far as the UK to be here and that's likely to happen again this year.

So what do we really do?
Well, first there's the opportunity to meet/greet all of the core team. You'll get a glimpse at upcoming hardware and get to hear all the skinny on it. Tuning software as well. Anything MegaSquirt related that's in the works or coming together, it will likely be here and you'll see it first. So basically we gather around, geek out, ooo's and aaa's are heard, we check out each other's rides, have some food, and generally just have a good time.

This year we're taking it up a notch, and combining the event with the Classic MotorSports 'Mitty' at Road Atlanta. The Mitty is 3 days of road racing on Road Atlanta's 2.54 mile course, combined with onsite camping, live music and free beer on Saturday night, etc. This year the theme will be somewhat of a celebration of all things Japanese Sportscars.

There will also be an autocross on-site where you can beat the heck out of some MX-5's for free, sponsored by Kuhmo Tires. You can take your car out on the RoadA track for some touring laps or parade laps as well! (Parade laps are free, touring laps cost a few bucks but you can drive faster)

We'll also be camping onsite, which you're free to do as well, or we've got some rooms blocked off at nearby hotels if you prefer to stink less than we do ;).

Full details can be found at: http://www.DIYAutoTune.com/events/megameet_2011.htm

We hope to see you there!

[darkstarmedia]

I'll likely stay at the Best Western... flying in Friday @ 4:00 if anyone needs a ride as I am renting a car.

So... who's in?

Richard

[FoundSoul]

Several from our crew will of course be up there. I'm probably camping, as is Russ. Ben lives right down the road and will probably stay at home. Matt I'm not sure of. The rest of the staff that's coming out I'm not sure of yet either...

We've had a fair amount of response on some of the forums we sponsor, and some on the Facebook page too. We'd love to get as many people out as possible, should be a really fun event!

[darkstarmedia]

I thought about driving in and camping but that is a 2.5 days of driving each way... I just can't allocate that much time

Al & Bruce camping too?

Richard

[FoundSoul]

Nah, I'm pretty sure they'll be at the hotel.

It'll be fun to hang out at the track, Saturday night's always a great time. We've had some interesting mis-adventures involving golf carts and low hanging tree limbs, golf cart hill climbs, etc... among other exploits. This year we're bringing pit bikes to get around, if you can call CR and YZ125's pit bikes ;)

[darkstarmedia]

Are they going to be staying at the Best western or the Holiday Inn?

[Matt Cramer]

Little video we came up with to promote the DIYAutoTune.com booth and the MegaMeet:

http://youtu.be/BgIrqphC43g

[blown88ssp]

Hello, Thinking about bringing my project katana down. I'm up near greenville, sc. I have a few little issues with this bike and would like to get some help in setting up some ignition control on it.

It's a 1990 katana, with a megasquirt 1,v3, 04 gsxr throttle bodies and a lc1 wideband. It runs great, other than a little cold start issues. I need to setup timing control and then its getting a turbo.

Video of my katana and palm running on youtube under watkinsmotorspots. brad.