I'm still on for the meeting. 4pm Saturday at the Bull & Castle, Lord Edward St. Seems there'll be 8 or 9 of us. See ye there. Remember - bring a PGP key for signing if you like and maybe a couple of paper wallets with a bitcent preloaded (~1), for tips.
Excellent, I look forward to it!
As far as tipping and paper wallets go, most folks nowadays have a smartphone that they'd be able to download a Bitcoin wallet app onto. Maybe as well as the paper wallets themselves we should bring some small 'flash-card' style instructions on how to redeem the paper wallets (we have the blockchain.info app on both iOS and Android, for example) and a QR-code link to BitMit (or any Bitcoin store/site) that the staff can just scan and immediately go somewhere they can spend their BTC and have a real, tangible product delivered to them.
There are a lot of people out there that are completely unfamiliar with digital currency and wouldn't necessarily understand the distinction between an actual digital currency such as Bitcoin (which can be used to buy any real tangible product) and a virtual gaming currency such as Second Life Linden Dollars (which can only be used to buy a virtual product).
If they have a simple way of obtaining a good or a service for their 'digital funny money' they'd be more likely to see that it serves as an actual method of payment for real world products. Judging from my own thoughts on it, if I had received a paper wallet a couple of years back loaded with a digital currency - having absolutely no idea about it's value or potential - I most likely would have just thrown it out with the used receipts and rubbish.
