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I'm unconvinced that Bristol (or any other region of the UK, especially those commutable to London) has the critical mass necessary to support one. Perhaps a wo
by estel 14y ago
I'm unconvinced that Bristol (or any other region of the UK, especially those commutable to London) has the critical mass necessary to support one. Perhaps a worthwhile experiment though.
- Peroni 14y agoTo be fair, HN London started off with 15-20 people in the living room of one guys apartment and now we've got over 4,000 members.
- ig1 14y agoIIRC it was 15-20 in Songkick's original offices at the back of Spitalfields market (although physical size wise it was probably about the size of a living room), it frequently over-flowed into the corridor. They used to make everyone introduce themselves at the start, modern HN meetups lack that sense of intimacy :)
- dmitri1981 14y agoI'd say critical mass is around 20 passionate people who do cool stuff. Once you have that the rest is surprisingly easy.
- cfn 14y agoWell, there are two MS/.NET usergroups in Bristol, one of which has had 100+ people in attendance a couple of times and there a few other user groups in human factors and such.
- EnderMB 14y agoLondon will always be the exception, but given the number of user groups already held in Bristol that manage to get around 50-100+ people in a month with ease I think that Bristol would be the natural choice outside of London. Whether a HN meetup would be successful or not is another story. It'd be entirely down to who would choose to organise it and what they could offer to local HN members.
- estel 14y agoYeh, South West Founders seems to be consistently pretty popular. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely something that I'd love to happen.