Edith Yeung Hey everyone. I am hosting a Startup Visa Meeting this Thursday evening (7:00 - 7:30 p.m.) at Citizen Space San Francisco and looking for three speakers to update the SF Immigrant Entrepreneur community about what happen in DC last week. If you are available, ping me - edith@biztechday.com. Cheers!

Tanya For the GOAP/StartupVisa ppl still in DC, here's an idea for brunch on Saturday:
Every Saturday there is a breakfast & brunch tradition at Eastern Market, a cool old brick building with alot of history, that is a large market and cafe, with much charm. Apparently, quite a few local congress & neighborhood ppl, eat there on Saturday's. From the Q Hotel, take the Metro to the Eastern Market stop, and walk up 7th street, towards East Capitol Street, and you will see Eastern Market. It's quite large, so easy to spot. Cheers.

Edith Yeung To clarify - he is looking for immigrant entrepreneur who lives in south bay area. Eli Segall 408-299-1829

Edith Yeung Hey guys - I just got interviewed by San Jose Business Journal. The reporter (Eli Segall) is looking for 2 other people to interview. One is Dave and the other should live in San Jose / South Bay / Peninsula area. Please call him 408-299-1829 if you are interested in getting interviewed by the journal.

Dave McClure i promised i wouldn't wear flip-flops.

(some folks will be wearing suits, others will be business casual. personally, i have no plans to wear a tie anytime soon unless i'm being buried :)

Adam Rodnitzky Any ideas on dress code for the government meetings?

Dave McClure folks: at this point we are WAY OVER capacity for the trip, and we may have to limit attendance at a few events... thanks again for all the support, and we hope to carry our mission to the Nation's Capitol with flags waving!

follow http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23startupvisa for updates

Edith Yeung Sad that I won't be able to join you. Keep me posted on what you learn and what need to be done. I will spread the news to my meetup -> San Francisco & Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs (http://www.meetup.com/imtrepreneur/)

Abheek Anand If you have RSVP-ed on the signup form and have not yet received a welcome email, please drop me a line at abheeka AT gmail DOT com. I am missing some email addresses from folks. Thanks.

Abheek Anand At this point, we are closing the RSVP link for the trip. Over the next day ill reach out to everyone who has RSVP'ed so far and send out details on the planned itinerary.

Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!

Shuchi Rana Travel booked! look forward to meeting you all!

Dave McClure we should have final details on all events updated by this week. there will be a mixer / reception on wed eve, a private dinner thurs eve, and the Lean Startup event fri evening.

please request RSVP using link above, and we will confirm with all participants.

Tom Keller Any info on the Thurs / Fri agenda?

Abheek Anand For folks who are going to be joining us in DC - can you RSVP using the link below? Thanks!

http://bit.ly/StartupVisaRSVP

Shuchi Rana @shaherose still need someone to share the room with? I'm going!! :)

Natalie F Hello. Quick reminder on travel: you need to book your hotel room THIS WEEK to take advantage of the group rate we negotiated at Club Quarters DC ($154-$174 depending on room type). Visit http://bit.ly/StartupVisaDC to get the discount code & instructions.

James Taylor Looking forward to helping any way I can!

David Park I'm a prof at GW, entrepreneur and an immigrant as well. Let me know how I can help. Are you working with a DC law firm to help push this agenda?

Dave McClure updated info for flights & hotel is now here: http://bit.ly/StartupVisaDC (please book your flights & hotel asap; note to get discount use hotel group reservation code BEFORE FRIDAY 2/19)

shaherose charania To the wonderful ladies attending, does anyone want to share a room march 3 to 6? I'd rather save the money for some new gadgets ;) LMK! @shaherose

Laurie Deneschuk Thanks for all the information...tickets are bought and am lodging with my ex-roomie...see you on the plane if not earlier for a bay area pre-event this is my first geeksonaplane adventure with you all!

Abheek Anand And for folks who might want to head back on Friday night (March 5th), there's Virgin American Flight 77. Departs IAD 8:45PM, Arrives SFO 11:55PM

Natalie F oops...that return flight is March 6th.

Natalie F Here are the flight/hotel details for anyone who wants to join:
We're planning to fly Virgin America from SFO to IAD on March 3 (Flight # 78 departing at 7:25am). The return flight most people will be on is IAD-SFO on March (Flight # 71 departing at 4:30pm).

We'll be staying at the Club Quarters hotel at 839 17th Street NW and we have negotiated a special group rate of $174/night + tax for a standard room. To take advantage of that rate, you'll need to book a room with the hotel via phone (212-575-0006) or email (memberservices-at-clubquarters-dot-com) by February 19th. Unfortunately, you can't get the group rate if you try to make your reservation via the hotel's Web site -- it's phone or email only. Tell them you are with Startup Visa and that your group code is STA303. Thanks!

Dave McClure looks like Virgin America flight out of SFO early am March 3, come back afternoon March 6. (Natalie or Abheek will be adding exact info)

Tanya Awesome, thanks for the update!

Dave McClure we will be posting info on travel / hotel / other events later today & this week.... finalizing arrangements now.

Tanya @Dave, should we start making individual hotel reservations in DC for 3/3/10 - 3/5/10, and start booking our own flights, or will this be a group geek's on a plane kind of trip, like the other's? thank u - holla if we can help! grazie!

Laurie Deneschuk I am in. I have horror stories about being locked out of the US before 911.

Peter Corbett @Dave the Small Business Administration caught wind of this and wants to meet with you all. I'll connect you via email - count me in for 'being volunteered' too!

Jesse Thomas This sounds awesome! let me know if you need anything

Dave McClure hey Robert... definitely, let's catchup. working on firming up agenda asap and getting info out to everyone who wants to join us in DC

Robert Michael Murray @davemcclure can we chat next week about GOAP DC? Working on scheduling a National Geographic visit, etc.

Natalie F I'm a GOAP newbie very interested in participating in the DC trip. Please let me know how I can help, and if there's anything else I need to do to join you.

min viable @davemcclure If still interested in NatGeo contact, would like to try to be helpful; am following on Twitter, please DM as appropriate

John O'Brien well i had really hoped I would be able to help out this time with GOAP came to DC... but looks like that week I will be in ATL. Travel safe everyone - and good luck meeting your goals for the trip.

Ben Hatten I'm available to help as well, really enjoyed the last GOAP DC meeting when you guys were out here. Happy to recruit the other Launch Box Digital companies & advisors as well

Jodi Gersh Count me in if you need any help!

Jen Consalvo Sweet! I love it when everyone comes to DC for a change ;) Let me know how I can help.

Chris McCann totally want to tag along and help too if you need any. I need to go out on the east coast around then anyways :)

Dave McClure @Jared: you're hired. (oh wait, hired means we have to pay you... um, you're "volunteered" ;) Also recruiting Frank Gruber too... we're putting the band back together!

Jared Goralnick Ooh, happy to organize some similar stuff to last GOAP / SV trip in DC. Keep me in the loop, sir.

Dave McClure glad to have you along, and yes would be terrific to have some help. Natl Geo contacts would be great for at least one event.

Christine Lu i totally want to help. in SF x3 in Jan so let's catch up and let me know what i can do.

Dave McClure planning to take some folks to Washington, DC to support the http://StartupVisa.com movement, and meet with representatives from Congress, White House, Commerce & State Dept.

for people who are coming from west coast, we will plan to fly out on March 3rd, do meetings on 4th & 5th, and return on the 6th. we will likely do some non-StartupVisa geek meetups while we're in town as well.

Christine Lu ooh! can i come? can i help? i immigrated when i was 2 years old. that still counts as a case study one day. ^_^