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Tell HN: Philly Area Meetup Tue. 9/29 6PM
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoBelieve it or not, it's been 2 years since our first Philly news.yc meetup. This will make #23! Our monthly no-agenda hackathon group has grown since then, but the core group still consists of the original members garnered from this news.yc comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42287 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42287 Anyway, if you are in the Philly Area, please sign up for the hackathon group. And if you are free next Tuesday evening, please join us in the city at the Cira Center (by 30th street) at 6PM. You need to sign up because the building has security and we need to put your name on there. P.S. The "approval process" is really just a rubber stamp thing that prevents fake or obviously inappropriate members. If you want to bypass the whole thing, you can also email me directly.
- keenerd 17y agoAdvertise much? I've been lurking HN since it was founded and never even heard of this. Shame I won't be in town that night. Would have loved to attend, and will try to make it to future events.
- petemack 17y agoAlso never heard of this, but it sounds interesting. I'll head over and sign up.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoNo, pretty much do no advertising except for HN. But I don't want to spam here, so this is only the third post (once a year). Yeah, different people show up to each event based on their schedules.
- alexknowshtml 17y agoWe'd be willing to help spread the word through the IndyHall community, a bunch of multi-disciplinary hackers hang out in our crew, as well as on the periphery. Furthermore, we'd be happy to host something downtown in the coming months! Drop me a line.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoCool, this is Gabriel (yegg) in case you couldn't tell from my username :). Please point people to the signup page linked above. Can IndyHall host in November? That would be awesome.
- albertsun 17y agoAhh, poor timing for me. Wish it were Wednesday. When will the next one after this be?
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoSometime next month. We usually allow members to give feedback on dates before the final scheduling.
- rajeshamara 17y agoI am in philly and i am interested. Can you tell me more about the event.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoSure, we usually say this: "Hack on your projects with other members of the Philly startup community. As always, there will be free Internet & no specific agenda. So be productive, or not..." It's really just a way to get together and hang out with other hackers. Unlike some of the other groups around, there is no agenda so you are free to talk about anything really. Or hack. There is usually of course a lot of tech talk and specifically about what people are working on.
- rajeshamara 17y agoWeekdays are typically bad for me. Do you have any future events in KOP area or in weekends.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoWe've been doing this monthly, and have recently been alternating between KOP and 30th street. We haven't done any weekends yet, but are open to the possibility.
- covercash 17y agowhere in KOP do you meet? I'm literally right down the street from the mall.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoWe had been meeting at Bear Rock Cafe. But recently their Internet has gotten terrible, so last time we met at LiquidHub, at an office building by the Gateway Shopping Center. Any location ideas?
- rajeshamara 17y agoDoes DreamIt Ventures have any relation with Phily Hackethon. Do we get an access to them through Hackethon
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoThere is a lot of overlap, but no formal relationship. We started before Dreamit existed. There are a lot of Dreamit hackers in the group, and we had one hackathon at Dreamit this summer (hosted by them).
- unalone 17y ago30th street is pretty far away, and I've got no project to work on. I like the idea of a Philly meet-up, but right now I think I'll sit this one out.
- matt1 17y agoFunny -- I've been to both the Philly.rb meetings and the new Build Guild meetings and had no idea that this even existed. Is there any type of consolidated event site for these things? Regardless, I'll see you there.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agohttp://phillynewmediahub.com/ http://phillynewmediahub.com/ has a bunch of stuff, though not these hackathons. http://macalliance.basecampbusiness.com/calendar/search http://macalliance.basecampbusiness.com/calendar/search has some stuff too, though more bizy than hackathony. Also missing though is Philly Lambda (http://groups.google.com/group/philly-lambda http://groups.google.com/group/philly-lambda), which has hacker speaker type events, and PSL (http://phillystartupleaders.org/ http://phillystartupleaders.org/), which has startup focused events.