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DC July Meet-Up

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Don't look for us among these tables, the waitstaff is sure to shunt us off towards a bar...
Don’t look for us among these tables, the waitstaff is sure to shunt us off towards a bar…

Join us for our July DC-area informal meet-up/happy hour.  The crowd will be heading to the upstairs bar area of the District Chophouse at the Gallery Place/Chinatown metro stop.  We hope you’ll join us to meet some interesting people and some of our new officers, discuss all things maritime, and brainstorm ideas for our next analysis week.

Time:   Wednesday, 24 Jul 5:00-9pm                                  Happy hour lasts til 7:00pm

Place:   District Chophouse (Main floor bar until 6:30, then upstairs if we can turf it out)

509 7th St NW, Washington, DC
Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro (Red/Green/Yellow lines)

All are welcome and no RSVP is required, but if you’re planning on coming please drop me a line so we have an idea of how many seats to reserve: director@cimsec.org

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Midrats and Meet-Ups

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Galway BayTomorrow (Sunday) evening, from 5-6pm (EST) I’ll be on Midrats, the webcast radio show run by naval blogosphere personalities CDR Salamander and EagleOne from “EagleSpeak“. Feel free to drop by where we’ll be discussing the first year of CIMSEC and whatever else crops up.

Next Saturday, June 15th, we’ll take the monthly DC Meet-up on the road to Annapolis, Maryland, home of the U.S. Naval Academy. We hope you’ll join us at the Galway Bay at 1pm – all are welcome (ask at front for our location if you don’t recognize anyone):

Time: June 15th, 1-5pm
Location: Galway Bay Irish Restaurant and Pub, 63 Maryland Ave., Annapolis, Maryland, 21401

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CIMSEC’s May DC Meet-Up

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Lyon HallIf you’re in the DC area next Wednesday, May 29th, we hope you’ll stop by Lyon Hall in Arlington for our monthly DC-area meet-up. It’s a chance to share some ideas, meet new folk, or just grab a drink and swap a sea story or two.

Time: May 29th, 5-9pm
Location: Lyon Hall, 3100 Washington Blvd., Arlington, Virginia, 22201 (Clarendon Metro Stop on the Orange Line)

June’s DC-area meet-up will be June 15th at the Galway Bay Irish Restaurant and Pub in Annapolis, MD, at 1pm.

If you’re not in the DC area but wish you had a meet-up to go to, just shoot me an email (director@cimsec.org) and we’ll set one up.

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CIMSEC 1-Year Anniversary and April DC Meet-Up

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Join us next week for our 1-year anniversary. BYOC.
Join us next week for our 1-year anniversary. BYOC.

It’s been one year since we started CIMSEC as an experiment in empowering maritime security collaboration and discussion (alright, after I stared it as a. During this time we’ve published over 250 articles and posts on the NextWar blog and have grown to over 100 members. Our articles and authors have been re-run, cited, or quoted in media from the Sunday Times of London to the Somaliland Sun (ironically a pirated article on Somali piracy).

As an organization of volunteers we’ve relied on the uncompensated hard work and efforts of many individuals, and have received help, publicity, and endorsements from many other good people and our partner sites (at right). We’re also thankful for you, our members and readers, who by your commentary, words of encouragement, and visits to the site have spurred us on to continue our endeavor. Not all of our undertakings have succeeded, and our project ideas are often bigger than our free-time allows – but we’ll keep striving to improve in Year 2 to improve our forum for connecting with others and developing ideas for maritime security.

On Tuesday we’ll celebrate at Old Dominion Brewhouse in Washington, DC – 1219 9th St NW – from 5 to 8pm (Convention Center/Mt. Vernon Square stop on the Green/Yellow Lines). Feel free to drop for an informal discussion of our April Analysis Week and a chance to share a few beers with fellow maritime folk.

Hope to see you there!