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Hacker News Meetups
- vinceguidry 8y agoWent to check my city (Atlanta) to see if going there would be convenient. Get greeted by a demand to log in to LinkedIn. Oh well.
- people_not_bots 8y agoYeah I get people want "exclusivity" but at a certain point it feels comical. How many people are on hackernews on a weekly basis who are specifically "lurking" to try to get into an "exclusive" hacker event.
- vinceguidry 8y agoI think some people just don't realize that LinkedIn adoption isn't universal.
- people_not_bots 8y agoHas anyone had any significant success finding valuable networks?
- samebreath 8y agoWhat kind of value are you looking to achieve? My strategy started by being kind on Twitter in my target community. Those interactions led me to target conferences to attend, and from there I aimed to build content with people (side projects on GitHub or podcasts) which have added up to something of value. I now feel good about my extended network without being internet famous to really any degree, which works for me. What's your goal?
- gnicholas 8y agoIt showed Stanford as one of the cities, but clicking the link displayed the message "The Meetup Group you're looking for doesn't exist." It would be a shame if we had to rely on Meetup.com to organize these things. I've heard complaints from attendees and organizers about the platform/fees. Ideas for alternative ways to organize?
- all2 8y agoopenmeet.io is available. We could spin up a Django or flask site and build a HN style meetup application.
- _rovyko 8y ago>openmeet.io I've heard bad things about the IO TLD. What about openmeet.org? I'm just starting in Webdev but I'd like to be involved! https://hackernoon.com/stop-using-io-domain-names-for-production-traffic-b6aa17eeac20 https://hackernoon.com/stop-using-io-domain-names-for-produc... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15663988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15663988
- CydeWeys 8y agoOr even more terrifyingly, this: http://domainincite.com/23957-un-ruling-may-put-io-domains-at-risk http://domainincite.com/23957-un-ruling-may-put-io-domains-a... Fortuitously, .dev happens to be hitting General Availability tomorrow. And both meetup.dev and openmeet.dev are still available! Disclaimer: .dev is my baby.
- meruru 8y agoI remember seeing a federated meetup.com alternative in the brief time I used Mastodon. I can't find it anymore though.
- iBelieve 8y agoYou might be thinking of https://gettogether.community/ https://gettogether.community/ (https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether)
- meruru 8y agoYes, I think that was it. It needs work, I can't even figure out how to search for my city.
- eterm 8y agoDoes anyone know what happened to HNLondon? Or know of other similar sort of events in London or the wider UK?
- lhnz 8y agoI think it got killed by politics.
- danmaz74 8y agoWould love to come to a London hn meet up...
- bostik 8y agoWent to a couple of their events. Stopped. The talks were not interesting enough, and the events themselves felt like glimpses some Twilight Zone universe where an on-stage chair-thrower screams "Recruiters! Recruiters!"
- braythwayt 8y agoLots of people want to recruit at these events, and those people who are looking do want to hear about it. But nobody else does. The Toronto Rails Pub Night has a very good solution to this problem. Their policy is that you can stand on a chair and make a short pitch at any time, but you have to buy EVERYBODY a round. Those that aren’t interested in the pitch are usually happy to have their glass refilled, and the modest cost makes for a modest speed bump. Buying a round also seems less cynical than paying a meetup organizer to pitch the attendees.
- kaybe 8y agoNow I'm thinking about this kind of scheme out in the real world. Some random points: It's not like it's not there. Sometimes ad letters contain things. I've been given a kitchen knife for listening to a knife demonstration in a hardware store. Online we do get a lot of content and services even though it often doesn't feel like it is a good trade with all the tracking and security risks. At the same time (maybe not online) it is a dark (grey?) pattern to guilt people into buying something. Or you might get junk you do not want in exchange for being annoyed. And often you don't get anything but annoyed, as with billboards or leaflets. So would it actually be more ethical to consistently give people payment for paying attention to ads? (I know there are some projects, yes.) Especially considering that now the ones profiting (minus costs) are not the ones who have to live with it. How ethical is a for-profit ad business where people are exposed to it whatever they do? (This is a question of freedom in my book too.) Then again, if I got a beer for every pitch I can't avoid I'd be black-out drunk at all times.. </offtopic>
- mettamage 8y agoI don't see Amsterdam. If anyone is interested in co-organizing a meeting with me there (or attending it), my email is in my profile.
- rovyko 8y ago> Most of the groups use meetup.com Can anyone suggests free alternatives? I want to set one up for Waterloo, Canada but don't want to pay for a plan when I'm not sure if an audience exists.
- joecot 8y ago* Self hosted using wordpress or (maybe) drupal. Both have event managing plugins. * As funny as it might be, a subreddit. reddit meetups use subreddits for tracking just fine, I suppose a HN meetup could as well. The overlap between platforms is probably pretty high. In fact my recommendation would be to see if there's an existing reddit meetup group, and if any of them would be interested in a HN/tech meetup. * Discord server with pinned messages for pending meetups.
- pmoriarty 8y agoFor better or worse, meetup.com has really dominated this space, but I seem to recall that craigslist used to have a section for community events and announcements where you could post something about your group. I'm not sure how many people use it though, and it had a lot of junk in it (though, to be fair, so does meetup.com). Another way to go is the old fashioned route of posting physical paper fliers on telephone poles, or bulletin boards in cafes, universities, and libraries. It's local, absolutely free, and usually there's so much junk there that something serious and actually interesting would stand out.
- benatkin 8y agoI think the number of people who won't use meetup exceeds the people who won't use facebook at this point. I despise facebook but it's a necessary evil. Meetup is just a terribly clunky site I hope I never need to log into ever again. I go to some meetups that happen to be on meetup, but find the times elsewhere, or they're a weekly meetup so I already know the time. They may have dominated the space, but if you use meetup, some will just ignore the meetup group.
- prepend 8y ago
- middleclick 8y agoSo how do these work? I want to propose one for my city (Toronto) but I am not sure if I can handle the logistics. Or do people just pick a common place to meet and that's it?
- _rovyko 8y agoYou'd need a landing page where you can post details and get feedback. There are few discussions in the thread about open platforms, but I also started a community on https://spectrum.chat/canada https://spectrum.chat/canada. I'm Toronto-Waterloo based. Let me know if you have any ideas. In my experience, if the groups is small enough but has sociable members, they will just agree on a time and half the expected number of people will show up. Even 5 people is a success IMO.
- qqn 8y agoMe three! Often in Hamilton for days/weeks at a time but frequently in Toronto and certainly no stranger to (U)Waterloo.
- braythwayt 8y agoReg “raganwald” Braithwaite here. If you want to organize an HN meetup in Toronto, I can make space available at the PagerDuty offices, whether it’s for six, or a hundred and six. Most people call me “reg,” and my work email domain is pagerduty.com.
- braythwayt 8y agop.s. If you get things rolling, let me know early and I’ll tweet about it. Not sure how many Torontonians follow me, but it wouldn’t hurt to get the word out...
- ravedave5 8y agoYou guys make a good product, thank you!
- wawhals 8y ago
- jumbopapa 8y agoAnyone in the Kansas City, MO area interested in doing a meetup?
- taylorwc 8y agoI'm in! Email in profile
- jumbopapa 8y agoGot it! Thanks!
- mr_spothawk 8y agoConsider joining forces https://www.2600.com/meetings/mtg.html https://www.2600.com/meetings/mtg.html
- jumbopapa 8y agoLooks interesting. I'll check it out.
- adamnemecek 8y agoAnyone in Orange County wants to meet up sometime?
- mindcrime 8y agoCA, or NC? If the latter, I'm in...
- adamnemecek 8y agoThe former.
- baxtr 8y agoHmm. I am not sure if I want to meet HN people. Not that I don’t love the community. But I like the relative anonymity of this page. There is a reason why we don’t have profile pages with pictures here.
- pmoriarty 8y agoYou can still be relatively anonymous at meetups. You don't have to tell anyone your HN username, nor do you have to tell anyone your real name. People at a meetup would see your face and hear your voice, but so what?
- yardie 8y agoOr, instead of posting an opinion on a topic you have no interest in you could have just moved on to the next submission. Really, what was the point?
- cweagans 8y agoCouldn't you have done the same?
- stickfigure 8y agoSo... don't go?
- mr_spothawk 8y agoThere's already a pretty good hacker community meeting list, with lots of folks attending around the world. https://www.2600.com/meetings/mtg.html https://www.2600.com/meetings/mtg.html
- zby 8y agoWarsaw, Poland anyone?
- jmkni 8y agoThere must be others in Belfast (Northern Ireland) lurking around here? Should we get a meetup sorted?
- blennon 8y agoAnyone around Pasadena, CA interested in a meetup? Santa Monica is...far.
- foxbarrington 8y agoWe have Santa Monica listed as the location, but we'll try to bounce around the city. I live on the eastside as well.
- notthingnill 8y agoI would be disappointed to discover that the collective intelligence that I find in HN is not well represented when I speak with any member of the HN community, so better to continue with my bliss ignorance.
- stcredzero 8y agoI would be disappointed to discover that the collective intelligence that I find in HN is not well represented when I speak with any member of the HN community, so better to continue with my bliss ignorance. I've already seen that the collective intelligence in HN is not necessarily well represented by any particular commenter. (I may resemble this remark at times.) In any case, you already have no basis for your ignorance/bliss.
- armagon 8y agoWhat makes for a good meetup? I've been contemplating starting one in my town, but it'd seem that having a plan for the meetup would help.
- fhe 8y agojust want to get a sense: any hacker newsers living in Beijing? if enough of us, I'll organize a Beijing meetup.
- aaaronic 8y agoThe Atlanta one is a LinkedIn URL?! Party foul!
- vuln 8y agoLooking for a meetup in the 757. If anyone is around this area lets do it!
- yardie 8y agoI used to attend the Paris meetups. A bit of networking but mostly for the lectures. The presenter from Mindgeek was particularly memorable. Recently relocated to the US and building a new network. Anyone interested in meeting up in the Miami/FLL/WPB area?
- dannycastonguay 8y agoWPB yes!
- rmshea 8y agoAnyone interested in organizing a meetup in Denver? Email me! ryan [@] decentraland.org
- hartator 8y agoAnyone interested for Austin? ping me: julien __at__ serpapi.com
- dorfsmay 8y agoWhat does an HN meet up do differently than your average other technology meet up already does? In my city, Calgary, we have Python, js, datascience, beginner coder and much more. Most of them you can attend for free, so you can pick and chose what talk you go to. What sort of talks/events do HN meetips typically offer?
- wawhal 8y agoThis question really deserves an elaborate answer. Not sure if it has one though. The whole idea behind a meetup is to connect people with a similar interest or a similar group of interest so that they can talk, listen to and discuss things that they care about. HN has such broad range of topics that it is seems hard to find a group of people sharing the same interest. It would be really helpful if somebody that attends these meetups shares insights about them.
- kabacha 8y agoI'm really confused as well. HN is not really a community and there isn't even a set subject on this site. People who are interested in Tech news? That would be an absurdly broad and uninteresting classifier.
- speedplane 8y agoThe folks on HN seem to be of a generally higher quality than elsewhere on the internet (e.g., Slashdot). Amazingly, spammers, trolls, and opportunists have seemed to largely ignore HN so far (knock on wood). I agree an HN meetup would be broad, but I would hope that it would bring that same higher level of quality. Can you imagine a Slashdot meetup? Could potentially work at a combination circus-firing range-porn addiction support group, all taking place in your Mom's basement.
- wawhal 8y agoHigh-quality people (as defined by you) still might not have common areas of interests and hence the question still stands: "What will actually be talked/presented/discussed in the meetup?"
- b3b0p 8y agoWhat do people do at these meetups? Nothing for Downtown Minneapolis where I'm at. I might have figure a way to change that.
- ravedave5 8y agoWe both posted within a minute about Minneapolis. Weird.
- bemmu 8y agoI often go to the meetup in Kansai (http://hnkansai.org/ http://hnkansai.org/), which rotates between being hosted in Kobe, Osaka and Kyoto. The event space is anywhere that allowed us to use their space, usually some tech company office. We've had some gorgeous night views from a high-rise, cool atmosphere at the top floor of a hip bar, and admittedly the occasional small windowless room as well. It's about 2 hours, starting 19:30 with introductions and two or three talks. After the talks people just chat with each other. Why are they "HN meetups"? People here have pretty similar interests, so if you give a talk or chat with someone about a topic that would interest HN, then it will probably go well at the meetup too. Afterwards we often head to some izakaya.
- ravedave5 8y agoAnyone interested in setting this up for Minneapolis?
- davidw 8y agoOpen invitation for a beer here in Bend, Oregon if anyone stops by. Although right now... would not be the best time to stop by as we're buried in something like a meter of snow.
- keithnz 8y agoBe happy to meet with anyone in Auckland, New Zealand
- nathan_f77 8y agoWould be great to meet up with some people in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Let me know if you want to get a coffee or beer. I recently started an Indie Hackers meetup [1] in Chiang Mai, and we had our first meetup a few days ago. Feel free to come along next month if you're interested in startups and bootstrapping. [1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/indiehackerschiangmai https://www.facebook.com/groups/indiehackerschiangmai
- eric_khun 8y agoanyone in taipei?
- londons_explore 8y agoLondon is currently dead. Volunteers to restart it?