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Tell HN: HN London Meetup
While browsing the other day I discovered that there used to be a meetup for London based HN readers[1] that appears to have fizzled out when the organiser moved over to America. This type of thing seems to have been relatively wide-spread in tech hubs at the time[2].
To try and rekindle a local HN readers meetup in London, I have arranged a meetup event here: https://www.meetup.com/london-hacker-news-meetup/events/288139501/
If you are in the London area, feel free to come along and say hi!
[1] http://www.coderholic.com/hacker-news-london-meetup-a-year-on/
[2] https://github.com/antontarasenko/hacker-news-groups
- jgrahamc 4y agoThere used to be and it was great. If you give more notice next time I’ll try to turn up.
- connorlu 4y agoWill do, I hope to make it a monthly recurring event. If you join the group on Meetup you should get a notification when the next event is scheduled.
- jaredlt 4y agoGreat idea! Can't make this one but have joined the group to look out for future meetups.
- connorlu 4y agoThanks, hope to see you at one in the future!
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- onemiketwelve 4y agoI just want to say thanks for taking the innitiative and setting it up. Although I'm not in london I would've gone if I was nearby. YC just did an official one near me in Boston and there seemed to be lots of enthusiasm.
- connorlu 4y agoGood to hear that the one in Boston was full of enthusiastic folk. What format did it take? Was it quite structured, or very casual meeting and discussion?
- onemiketwelve 4y agoI wish I could tell you, I was actually out of town during the event. I gathered it was supposed to be kind of a talk mixed with a job fair? https://www.workatastartup.com/events/yc-jobs-bos-irl-s22 https://www.workatastartup.com/events/yc-jobs-bos-irl-s22
- cachvico 4y agoHackerNest is another good one, I hosted a couple of these when I was part of a co-working space - https://hackernest.com/events https://hackernest.com/events
- connorlu 4y agoThis is cool, I'll sign up to their September event when it's published. The hackathon section is interesting too. Do they host hackathons, or just help companies organise them?
- abusaidm 4y agoThis is great, I am on Leave outside London ATM. I will join the group, this is a great opportunity to meet and share ideas post lockdown
- connorlu 4y agoIt's a real pity that events haven't started up again completely post-lockdown. One of the reasons that I started out in tech was the active and welcoming European Hackathon community, so events have been a big part of my experience. Hope to catch you at an event in the future!
- ealexhudson 4y agoBit short notice for me but I've joined the group and would love to come in the future. Thanks for taking the initiative!
- synu 4y agoAnyone in Amsterdam interested?
- vakkermans 4y agoYes!
- attende_domine 4y agoUtrecht, but yes.
- mattcristal 4y agoYes!
- synu 4y agoThere's another hacker/founder meetup happening in Amsterdam tomorrow, though it's not HN/YC affiliated as far as I know: https://www.meetup.com/hackers-and-founders-amsterdam-nl/events/vbglvsydcmbcb/ https://www.meetup.com/hackers-and-founders-amsterdam-nl/eve...
- paulmist 4y agoAre students also welcome? :)
- synu 4y agoNot sure actually, it's not my event.
- harindirand 4y agoIf for LND - the answer is yes!
- Sakos 4y agoWith enough of a heads-up, I might travel from Cologne to hang out. The London meetup is way too short-notice for me.
- asdadsdad 4y agoGreat stuff. Thanks for doing that! #golondon
- connorlu 4y agoHope to see you there :)
- yodsanklai 4y agoAs much as I like reading and commenting on HN, I'm not sure I'd be comfortable socialising with opinionated geeks :)
- harindirand 4y agoSocialising with opinionated geeks sounds like the best way to have interesting conversations!
- eafkuor 4y agoYou must be under 26-27 years of age? Because that sounds exhausting to me, but I would have enjoyed it a few years ago, probably
- lhnz 4y agoDon't belittle people for wanting to speak to people like themselves by acting like this is a sign of immaturity or something that they will grow out of...
- nyokodo 4y ago> sign of immaturity or something that they will grow out of... Or perhaps they meant that it’s a sign of youthful vitality and openness that they lost via the detriment of aging?
- boboralice 4y agoI'm way older than that but I work from home. I actually just made an account after a long time of lurking because the lack of lunchtime tech rants is starting to feel isolating.
- harindirand 4y agoHa! 26. I sympathise - but have to admit, I am quite excited for this! I just know there are going to be so many interesting people there, doing so many interesting things!
- msantos 4y agoHNLondon run until at least 2018[1] and were well organised IMO. The speakers line up were mostly very interesting. And some of the recordings of the talks are still available at https://vimeo.com/hnlondon https://vimeo.com/hnlondon If I'm not mistaken the organisers of HNLondon in its final years were Dmitri Grabov[2] and Stevie Buckley[3]. One recurring issue that I recall was the typical audience member trying to hijack Q&A to promote stuff - i.e. "can I ask a question?" then proceeds to make a comment and pitch their product instead. But that's not isolated to HNLondon. PS: Big shoutout to Dmitri and Stevie for the awesome events that they put together back in the day. [1] https://twitter.com/HNLondon/with_replies https://twitter.com/HNLondon/with_replies [2] https://twitter.com/dmitrigrabov https://twitter.com/dmitrigrabov [3] https://twitter.com/StevieBuckley https://twitter.com/StevieBuckley
- connorlu 4y agoThanks for this, I’ve reached out to both Dmitri and Stevie to chat about the community. They definitely paved the way for this, so their knowledge would be invaluable.
- Saphyel 4y agoIn most of the events only sponsor are allow to do spam or say they are recruiting. Normal attendes are not allow to do that and they will be ban for the next events.
- fungil 4y agoI remember going to one of these, many years ago. Sounded cool, hackers meeting up. I was pretty adept at reverse engineering and was just getting into vulnerability research, so I figured it would be right up my street. Unfortunately it ended up being a talk about making websites with some framework or other, and some uninspirational speech about some startup. I didn't bother going to another one. Though from this I did find out about the HN website itself, which is worth a browse now and then. So I suppose it was worth going anyway.
- Aromasin 4y agoUnfortunately I've moved from London to Oxford recently. If the location is anywhere near Victoria Station I'd consider the trip though :)
- cjwebb 4y agoTime to organise the HN Oxford Meetup! :)
- robertlagrant 4y agoI'm in!
- connorlu 4y agoIf you check back on the event at the start of next week, I’ll have a confirmed location. I’m hoping to keep it reasonably central.
- concordDance 4y agoHN Oxford represent!
- metroguy 4y ago
- clipper_janosch 4y agogood idea, added to my calendar
- connorlu 4y agoLook forward to seeing you there!
- Jaruzel 4y agoI've signed up. It's a bit short notice, and I don't know if I can rejuggle to attend, but I'm definitely interested in future meetups.
- connorlu 4y agoHope that you can make it, and if not I look forward to meeting you at one in the future.
- jtemplestein 4y agolove to see this - the london HN meetup is where we found our first few engineering hires at monzo! we owe a lot to dmitri, stevie and that meetup my email address is first name at monzo.com if you're looking for a place to host it
- connorlu 4y agoThanks Jonas, I’ll email you later today. On the move right now.
- tomblomfield 4y agoCaptured for posterity! https://vimeo.com/201364257 https://vimeo.com/201364257
- glcheetham 4y agoI organise meetup groups in Manchester. I have a venue nailed down. Who is interested in a similar HN Meetup but in Manchester?
- jbrooksuk 4y agoMe! I'm in Staffordshire, so would be better to travel to Manchester than London.
- onion2k 4y agoI wonder if there's any interest in a meetup in the North East, probably Newcastle. Or if it'd just be me drinking in a pub on my own. Either way, I'm tempted to organise it.
- willemmerson 4y agoI'd be interested if it's Newcastle.
- alsiola 4y agoIn for HN toon
- dan1234 4y agoI'd be potentially interested in a Newcastle meet-up
- tailspin2019 4y agoThis is a good idea. I'm not in London much at the moment but could be tempted to attend an event at some point in the future.
- connorlu 4y agoIt would be great to see you there if you can make it for a future event :)
- rambambram 4y agoI organized a popular coding meetup - called Let's Code Together - in 2018 in Nijmegen (The Netherlands). I'm thinking of doing the same kind of meetup thing in Arnhem/Nijmegen area (The Netherlands) for HN. Anybody interested?
- desaiguddu 4y agoHey HN Folks, Let's plan a meetup in Bangalore (Bengaluru)? Who are in Bangalore? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32662083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32662083
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- tintedfireglass 4y agoThat's a really good idea!
- tpoacher 4y agoI just registered. Important question (probably the most important in such events): ... will there be pizza?
- connorlu 4y agoI will do my best, can’t make any promises at this stage. I do appreciate the vital important of pizza from my hackathon days though :p
- ilikerashers 4y agoI'll sign up! A lot of meetups have died recently so there is a definite desire to get going again. The quality has been fairly low from the stuff I've been to lately (not to name any names).
- lostgame 4y agoHas there even been / would anybody be interested in a Toronto HN meetup? I feel like this city is certainly tech-heavy enough that we could organize something nice! Please let me know here if that’s something that potentially interests you. I am a fan of in-person Internet forum meetups and have had some of my best social memories from them. :)
- emmanuel_1234 4y agoI was literally searching for tech / dev meetups in Toronto earlier today, as I moved here a couple months ago. The results were a bit disappointing. Most group are either dead or online only. That's a way to say: YES, if that happens, count me in.
- izolate 4y agoI would join from Buffalo! If I can help in any way, let me know.
- TomGullen 4y agoWent to a bunch of the original meetups years ago, good times! Pizza was great :) Dmitri did a great job organising it all and kindly let me speak about our startup at one of the events. I was completely overshadowed by an amazing talk on quantum computers by a very educated and funny guy afterwards though, 10/10 best talk I've ever seen.
- moritonal 4y agoI've signed up, but won't make the first. If you run a second with a couple weeks forewarning I'll try attend.
- connorlu 4y agoI’ll set a regular schedule so that you can attend the next one!
- illwrks 4y ago@connorlu My employer has offices across the major UK cities including London. I doubt there would be any cost but it would likely need to be planned a month or so in advance as the building managers and security need to be briefed and approve it. Most buildings would have conference spaces etc which would be suitable for talks, and pretty central so could head for a drink afterward. Let me know if interested, it might be an easier option to manage if going broader across the UK.
- connorlu 4y agoWould be great to chat about this for future events, feel free to shoot me a message at ConnorL__ on Twitter or send me an email at firstname at oneslipstream.com
- swatcoder 4y agoThis makes me wish there was a consolidated monthly “Events” thread, like the hiring/freelancer threads. I’d love to be able to skim such a list once a month and see if anything interesting is coming up.
- ebbflowgo 4y agoAmazing idea @connorlu. I won't be in London at that time so made a virtual video event for this at the same time. Feel free to use it how you'd like. https://vibehut.io/rooms/630f5b614c9de70016e36f20 https://vibehut.io/rooms/630f5b614c9de70016e36f20
- phoenix-nemo 4y agoThat sounds a great idea! Our company has an Office in Canary Wharf and we'd be happy to host the event in our building. It's a WeWork so quite easy to set it up. Could it be of interest?
- harindirand 4y agoHey! We're looking for a venue that can host - very grateful if you could drop us a note - dillon(at symbol)oneslipstream(dot symbol)com
- phoenix-nemo 4y agoSure! I'll get in touch with you and Connor shortly
- connorlu 4y agoThanks for the offer, I’ll keep it in mind for a future event. I’d you could get in contact at firstname at oneslipstream.com or send me a Twitter message at ConnorL__ I’d love to chat about this with you.
- willsmith72 4y agoAnyone interested in a Berlin version?
- Sakos 4y agoDefinitely.
- mellifluousbox 4y agoI would, yes!
- ciccionamente 4y agoMe too!
- szemy2 4y agoMe too!
- FlyingSnake 4y agoCount me in! My info is in the profile.
- skytreader 4y agoHamburger here but if this becomes a regular thing, I could ICE to there. :)
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- Cilvic 4y agoYes
- w-m 4y agoThere's an inactive Meetup group with 1700 members here: https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/berlin-hacker-news-meetup/ https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/berlin-hacker-news-meetup/ I got an email from Meetup recently that it will shut down unless a new organizer steps up.
- zn44 4y agoAnyone up to do one of these in Lisbon ?
- phoenix-nemo 4y agoWe will be in Lisbon shortly, if there is demand we could organize one impromptu? I know a few places and locals there
- buf 4y agoI'm thrilled to join. I just moved to London (tomorrow).
- connorlu 4y agoLook forward to seeing you there! Come and chat to me when you have a minute free.
- swyx 4y agoMiami folks - interested? reply here and ill ping back if we get 4 folks or more
- eric_khun 4y agoWe have started a sucessful one in Taipei, Taiwan a few months ago [1] with 40+ hackers. If folks here interested into an other one, reach me out or reply here. [1] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/taipei-hacker-news-meetup-1-tickets-267376689877 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/taipei-hacker-news-meetup-1-tic...
- parkersweb 4y agoBased in Cambridge and would consider travelling down for the occasional meetup - but would really appreciate some of the events being virtual if possible?
- yardie 4y agoI've attended the HN London meetup and the HN Paris meetup that was sponsored at the time by Github(?). Met the engineers from Mindgeek, loads of fun learning how they store and classify petabytes of video.
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- izolate 4y agoHNLondon was my absolute favorite meetup. Maybe it was where I was at the time in my career, or the state of the London tech community in the early 2010s, but it was such an exciting time. The talks were interesting, and the post-event drinks were fun. Met some great people. I live in the US now, but if this will be a regular event, I'm sure I could attend at least one event a year.
- connorlu 4y agoIt's great to hear that it was a highlight of your time in the city. Hopefully we can kindle some of that hacker spirit and you can make your way along to some future event!
- narf33 4y agoAnyone interested in Nürnberg/Nuremberg?
- swaggyBoatswain 4y agoRelated, I started a rather successful tech meetup in Tampa, Fl. In just under a year we grew it to 1000 active members. We're expected to hit 30-50k revenue (possibly even higher) as a almost newly nonprofit next year that we're putting back into the community https://www.tampadevs.com/ https://www.tampadevs.com/ Https://Meetup.com/tampadevs If anyone wants to emulate this work for their own community, I've written a series of blog posts about the challenges I've had to solve along the way. For context I have about a decade of experience in startups and building communities, and have alot of awesome advisors more experienced than me guiding me through all of this https://www.vincentntang.com/tags/tampa-devs/ https://www.vincentntang.com/tags/tampa-devs/ Feel free to hit me up on personal blog to reach out to me or on Twitter in my profile if you would like advice on starting a tech community
- contingencies 4y agoGreater Bay Area, China if anyone's still here. I propose Shenzhen on the 10th as it's pretty much central in transit terms and the current snap lockdowns of Shenzhen and Guangzhou should be over by then.
- CPLX 4y agoAre there any good similar get togethers in NYC these days? I used to be a part of NYTM all the time but when I started looking around this year it seemed like basically everything has gone virtual at this point. Any regular coding or tech adjacent get togethers happening in the actual real world in NYC these days?
- connorlu 4y agoHi HN, we're overwhelmed by the response to this event - it seems like something that has really struck a chord with the London tech community. We are still looking to confirm a venue for next week, thanks to everyone that has reached out with an offer for this so far. If you are able offer space for this, or a future event - it would be great to hear from you, my email is firstname at oneslipstream.com
- galfarragem 4y ago@dang An idea: a monthly post (like whoishiring) for HN meetups announcements around the world. I believe there are enough people interested in this.
- GOATS- 4y agoWhat happened to the event page?