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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,
by 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 agoWhile 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.