How NOT to organize an event
First rule of the event business is, strangely enough, to make sure you, the person that is organizing the event, can be there. If you fail at that, it doesn’t matter that P. Diddy is coming, or that you have free food and drinks, the whole event is a bust!
This same thing happened to me. I tried to organize a FlickrMeet @ PSU. I even had Onward State put it in their events calendar. And I failed. How? Because I failed to realize that other things that I have no power over might happen that same day. I forgot, I wasn’t thinking about, it never crossed my mind. These are all excuses. But they don’t make your event happen, they just find a way for you to justify that your event did not happen.
In the end, the event will probably get rescheduled. But this a great piece of advice for any other “noob” out there. Make sure YOU can attend your own event.
No photos. Hire someone else to make photos for you (kiding…). Or buy postcards/books whatever with the places you are to visit. I stoped making photos years ago, and I have no regrets. If I want to remember places I visite, it’s enough to scutinize my memory and there will be there.