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For quite some time I have been doing design/development, but HN is somewhat new to me — in the sense there is a whole community I can participate in. What woul

For quite some time I have been doing design/development, but HN is somewhat new to me — in the sense there is a whole community I can participate in. What would be the general idea of such a meet-up? I live near Leiden, so Utrecht is not so great for me, but I would like to get in touch more with the startup/hacker community within the Netherlands. In addition, is it common to meet-up together with total strangers, or is it more likely an existing group meets up?

jlengrand 14y ago
Hey Jeroen, Living in Leiden, you might as well want to join the amsterdam meetups directly, as it is closer from you. The idea is quite simple : meet awesome people, discuss with them, share experience and be amazed by all the good energy that can come from all those awesome people. I joined some meetups already in Utrecht (Ruby meetup, Startup Weekend) and always get out of it feeling like working all night. . . just to be a bit as amazing as the people I can meet. I have a lot of side-projects/ideas but always struggle to find "real" people to share them with. Meetups are a really good way to find people that have the same kind of interests as you :). And it is totally awesome to meet strangers (even though a bit stressful). Always good to get out of your comfort zone from time to time :).
- JeroenRansijn 14y ago
  Thanks for the quick reply, it sounds great to become more part of this community. I am finishing off high school this year, but have been working at the amazing @AanZeeNL as a creator for over a year now (although not actually working all the time due to my obligations to school). As for the Amsterdam hacker/founder community, could I just meet up, or should I qualify to some conditions? Conditions being: working at a startup or being a founder, or is it enough to be interested and be an aspiring founder?
  - jlengrand 14y ago
    http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders-Amsterdam-NL/ http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders-Amsterdam-NL/ Go and try by yourself man, you'l be amazed :)

jlengrand 14y ago

Hey Jeroen, Living in Leiden, you might as well want to join the amsterdam meetups directly, as it is closer from you. The idea is quite simple : meet awesome people, discuss with them, share experience and be amazed by all the good energy that can come from all those awesome people. I joined some meetups already in Utrecht (Ruby meetup, Startup Weekend) and always get out of it feeling like working all night. . . just to be a bit as amazing as the people I can meet. I have a lot of side-projects/ideas but always struggle to find "real" people to share them with. Meetups are a really good way to find people that have the same kind of interests as you :). And it is totally awesome to meet strangers (even though a bit stressful). Always good to get out of your comfort zone from time to time :).

JeroenRansijn 14y ago
Thanks for the quick reply, it sounds great to become more part of this community. I am finishing off high school this year, but have been working at the amazing @AanZeeNL as a creator for over a year now (although not actually working all the time due to my obligations to school). As for the Amsterdam hacker/founder community, could I just meet up, or should I qualify to some conditions? Conditions being: working at a startup or being a founder, or is it enough to be interested and be an aspiring founder?
- jlengrand 14y ago
  http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders-Amsterdam-NL/ http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders-Amsterdam-NL/ Go and try by yourself man, you'l be amazed :)