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What 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

What 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 ago
This 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 ago
I'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 ago
  The 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 ago
    High-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?"
    - speedplane 8y ago
      If the attendees at a conference are high quality, the conference itself will be high quality, there doesn't need to be a heavy overlap of specific interests. If a HN meetup could someway or another uphold that level of quality, it could be a great conference even if the topics are as varied as deep learning - to web frameworks - startup culture - to UBI economics.
tim333 8y ago
I'm not aware of an official policy - I think it's down to the local organisers. I sometimes went to the London one and they had fairly mainstream tech talks similar to other tech meetups.

wawhal 8y ago

This 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 ago

I'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 ago
The 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 ago
  High-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?"
  - speedplane 8y ago
    If the attendees at a conference are high quality, the conference itself will be high quality, there doesn't need to be a heavy overlap of specific interests. If a HN meetup could someway or another uphold that level of quality, it could be a great conference even if the topics are as varied as deep learning - to web frameworks - startup culture - to UBI economics.

tim333 8y ago

I'm not aware of an official policy - I think it's down to the local organisers. I sometimes went to the London one and they had fairly mainstream tech talks similar to other tech meetups.