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I never believed there was a formula for attracting hackers' attention until I saw it before my very eyes. If you're a developer in Sydney, there is a good chan

by mahmud 12y ago

I never believed there was a formula for attracting hackers' attention until I saw it before my very eyes. If you're a developer in Sydney, there is a good chance you came to the Atlassian HQ for meetups. They give us space, beer and pizza. I met nearly all my non-coworker tech buddies there. I ended up adopting Atlassian products, befriending Atlassian staff, and nowadays I tell all new tech acquaintances to meet me there. Now that I think of it, this is the very exact formula they followed to establish their offices as a tech hub, whether they know it or not. But they are not the only game in town. Fishburners runs a smooth but very ambitious coworking/incubation space, and General Assembly does tech education & training exceptionally well with some of the most talented people around. It's almost impossible to launch a tech startup in Sydney without having a foot in one of those places. And in our case, all three.

akurilin 12y ago
The Atlassian folks seem to be pretty generous with their space even here in SF. Always fun to drop by, thanks for having us :)
- joshmlewis 12y ago
  I don't think the parent comment works at Atlasssian.
  - mahmud 12y ago
    I don't. Which is why I said "They give us space .."
liamzebedee 12y ago
Interesting! I live in Brisbane and while we do have the beginnings of a startup scene it's not quite as vibrant as that of Sydney or Melbourne (at least w.r.t. VC and presence of big software companies). I'm going down there in December and possibly studying there next year, would you advise checking out Atlassian's meetup first?
- mahmud 12y ago
  Change the location to Sydney and see what comes up: http://www.meetup.com/find/tech/ http://www.meetup.com/find/tech/ I get: Big Data CSS R Scala Ruby on Rails SalesForce AWS TDD Wordpress DevOps Micro services Startup Founders 101 Agile & Scrum Product Internet of Things Golang Docker Health tech Python Women who code Android JVM Meteor BI Mobile dev All Things API Node.ninjas Cassandra Online marketing MongoDB PHP Puppet Drupal Mobile.NET OpenStack Web Analytics Continuous Delivery Linux PHP MongoDB

by mahmud 12y ago

akurilin 12y ago

The Atlassian folks seem to be pretty generous with their space even here in SF. Always fun to drop by, thanks for having us :)

joshmlewis 12y ago
I don't think the parent comment works at Atlasssian.
- mahmud 12y ago
  I don't. Which is why I said "They give us space .."

liamzebedee 12y ago

Interesting! I live in Brisbane and while we do have the beginnings of a startup scene it's not quite as vibrant as that of Sydney or Melbourne (at least w.r.t. VC and presence of big software companies). I'm going down there in December and possibly studying there next year, would you advise checking out Atlassian's meetup first?

mahmud 12y ago
Change the location to Sydney and see what comes up: http://www.meetup.com/find/tech/ http://www.meetup.com/find/tech/ I get: Big Data CSS R Scala Ruby on Rails SalesForce AWS TDD Wordpress DevOps Micro services Startup Founders 101 Agile & Scrum Product Internet of Things Golang Docker Health tech Python Women who code Android JVM Meteor BI Mobile dev All Things API Node.ninjas Cassandra Online marketing MongoDB PHP Puppet Drupal Mobile.NET OpenStack Web Analytics Continuous Delivery Linux PHP MongoDB