CITY/REGION: Palm Springs, California (Coachella Valley)
MEETUP PLACE: Palm Springs Public Library (Learning Center), 300 S. Sunrise Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262
DATE: May 20, 2023
TIME: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT
MEETUP PLAN:
Hi everyone!
After some successful Inland Empire meetups in the last 12 months, I thought it would be great to move a little east of our usual hangouts – somewhere a little warmer, but still very fun! Not that you needed another reason to go out to the desert on the weekend anyways. 
Why May, you ask? Anyone who lives here in the Coachella Valley will tell you that summer unofficially starts in May – case in point, as I write this, we will see our first 90F day of the year tomorrow and our first 100F day of the year next week! As much as I wanted to do a meetup in April, we have the Coachella and Stagecoach festivals just down the road for the latter part of the month, and I didn’t want to take a chance of getting caught up with the crowds. So May was a compromise between “it’s too hot” and “it’s too crowded.”
4/16/23 UPDATE: We have a venue!! Yay! Big thanks to @geetikasinha7 and @deramirezh for their help in venue vetting and selection. We will be meeting at the Palm Springs Public Library, specifically the Learning Center which is a private room that has been reserved specifically for our use. Please be aware that our reservation is capped to STRICTLY 30 people – any more than that and we run the risk of not being invited to reserve in the future. For that reason, please RSVP in this thread if you haven’t already so that we have an accurate count. Thank you!
I will be collecting $5 at the door for each person who will be joining us for card-signing and related activities. This is to recoup the cost of reserving the room. (I will also my Venmo info in this thread for your convenience. For Zelle, please PM me and I will send you my Zelle contact info.)
If you are bringing a “plus 1” and they are NOT participating in meetup activities, they may join us in the room if our RSVP count indicates that we will have extra chairs. Those actively participating in the meetup (and who have RSVP’d) have priority. Thank you for understanding!
I am excited to share that we commissioned the lovely and talented Geet @geetikasinha7 to design our postcard! She has designed many meetup cards here in California, specifically Pasadena and Pinole. I think you will LOVE her design!
So excited to see you all very soon! As always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I hope to see you next month! 
Best,
Michael
POSTCARD ORDERS: (please leave a message in the thread with # of cards requested and indicate RSVP if you haven’t already done so. thanks!)
(+ : door paid; ^ : cards paid)
(- : not paid yet)
@geetikasinha7 (+) 40 ^
@kanosis (+) 40 ^
@Vandelion (+) 20 ^
Caroline (+) 30 ^
@sand2sand (+) 20 ^
@Purple_Phoebe (+) 10 ^
@ohhsayy (+) 30 ^
@CatMeng (+) 10 ^
@sleepykitty (+) 30 ^
@tianye4869 (+) 30 ^
@WAREMOM (+) 40 ^
@schwan272 ( )10 ^
@Kristi-D (+) 10 ^
@deramirezh (+) 30 ^
@hulamunki (+) 20 ^
@pjh52 (+) 20 ^
@jmorris (+) 20 ^
@Lynneizle (+) 20 ^
@lucedelsole (+) 10 ^
@Pei_CL (+) 20 ^
@llmike007 (+) 20 ^
Michael’s Venmo is LLmike007
Thanks!
I will be there ofcourse 
what better way to welcome summer of 2023 officially than writing postcards in the 
desert 
Also thank you for commissioning me as the artist for the meetup postcard, really appreciate it.
so I hope to see you out in the IE the next time. Thanks for letting us know!