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I'm glad to hear about your successes at UCL, but I think you've missed the point of my blog post. I am not discrediting the tech scene at all. In fact, half wa

I'm glad to hear about your successes at UCL, but I think you've missed the point of my blog post. I am not discrediting the tech scene at all. In fact, half way through the post I admit that we thought the problem was inactivity when in fact it was just being disconnected. UCL might have done all of these awesome things, but a lot of people outside UCL did not know about it. We want to connect the UK tech scene as a whole and get people to notice all of these great achievements. There are tons of great societies and people should know about what they're doing. The title speaks for itself, it's about connecting the UK student tech scene.

jackgavigan 12y ago
IMHO, if students want to get connected, they should be getting involved in their local tech community (i.e. the non-academic one). There are loads of regular, tech-focused events here in London, such as our own Hacker News London meetup[1] and MiniBar[2]. If you're interested in jobs, Silicon Milkroundabout[3] and AppsJunction[4]. If you're just interested in socialising over a few beers, there's Silicon Drinkabout every Friday evening. Those are just a few of the regular events - there's loads of others. Startup Digest[6] is a good way of finding out about them. 1: www.meetup.com/HNLondon 2: www.meetup.com/minibar 3: www.siliconmilkroundabout.com/ 4: www.meetup.com/AppsJunction-Where-Startups-Meet-Developers 5: silicondrinkabout.com 6: www.startupdigest.com/digests/london
- asronline 12y ago
  While this is great, it is pretty hard to find students attend all of this regularly. Also, university is where most students will naturally spend their time. In the US especially, there's a great balance of things happening in the local tech community and at College. I would say you need to be a bit involved in both, but your university should primarily have the environment to allow you to start looking into all of the other things happening around you in the first place.

jackgavigan 12y ago

IMHO, if students want to get connected, they should be getting involved in their local tech community (i.e. the non-academic one). There are loads of regular, tech-focused events here in London, such as our own Hacker News London meetup[1] and MiniBar[2]. If you're interested in jobs, Silicon Milkroundabout[3] and AppsJunction[4]. If you're just interested in socialising over a few beers, there's Silicon Drinkabout every Friday evening. Those are just a few of the regular events - there's loads of others. Startup Digest[6] is a good way of finding out about them. 1: www.meetup.com/HNLondon 2: www.meetup.com/minibar 3: www.siliconmilkroundabout.com/ 4: www.meetup.com/AppsJunction-Where-Startups-Meet-Developers 5: silicondrinkabout.com 6: www.startupdigest.com/digests/london

asronline 12y ago
While this is great, it is pretty hard to find students attend all of this regularly. Also, university is where most students will naturally spend their time. In the US especially, there's a great balance of things happening in the local tech community and at College. I would say you need to be a bit involved in both, but your university should primarily have the environment to allow you to start looking into all of the other things happening around you in the first place.