Yahoo's Andy Baio talks about "The Weird Guy," the person in an online community who first suggests an offline meetup. Every community needs a Weird Guy to facilitate real life activities. He's the guy (or gal) who posts the "hey, let's meet at the pizza place and get to know one another" message to the BBS, or the one who sends around an email asking for suggestions of a date and time to meet.
Andy identifies with the Weird Guy, as the slide behind him indicates. He once tried to organize a meetup among Metafilter members.
