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HN meetup in Chicago
- tptacek 17y agoI'll go Monday. I'm not a huge fan of Hop Haus, but it is very easy to get people together there; on a Monday night, the dining room will be pretty much empty. (We do ChiSec every month at Hop Haus). Hopleaf is D.O.A. for a meetup. It's a madhouse every single night of the week. I'd love to convince you all to meet at Violet Hour, but I'm thinking $11 cocktails don't match the Chicago startup ethos.
- rguzman 17y agoViolet Hour would be cool, except that we're trying to keep it close to the loop so that it is easiest for everyone to get there. Check the thread later, I don't think the monday time is settled yet.
- tptacek 17y agoWell, figure out a date and let us know here; I'm not sure why Google Groups is a better place to organize a meetup than right here, though. My advice, after doing ~30 ChiSec meetups averaging ~30 people in the last year and a half, is just to pick something, get people together in a room, and then if the date isn't perfect you can move it next meetup.
- dschobel 17y agoAgree about the google groups thing. Someone should just register a twitter account for HNchi or YCchi like the Melbourne guys did: http://twitter.com/ycmelb http://twitter.com/ycmelb
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- mattdennewitz 17y agoviolet hour afterwards?
- jrockway 17y agoIf there's an afterwards, you're doing the meetup wrong :)
- dschobel 17y agoViolet Hour would be awesome but I don't think they'd be thrilled to have a bunch of guys in ironic t-shirts ruining their ambiance. :)
- tptacek 17y agoThey don't care; I've asked them about it. The only issue is space and expense.
- kingkilr 17y agoMan, being a student out in the middle of nowhere sucks, I miss all the cool events in the city.
- mronge 17y agoLet me guess, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign?
- endlessvoid94 17y agoThat's where I am. However, there's a little thing called Reflections | Projections this weekend ;-)
- kajecounterhack 17y agohey dave, good to see you on news.yc haha (I met you at ACM & HackU) Pity we can't make it monday. It would have been cool :/
- endlessvoid94 17y agoCould you facebook message me? I don't recognize your username, sorry!
- kingkilr 17y agoNope, I'm at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. I'm just from Chicago.
- pchristensen 17y agoSo Monday 10/18, 8pm, at Hophaus http://www.thehophaus.com/ http://www.thehophaus.com/ at 646 N. Franklin?
- sachinag 17y agoI'll be there, but I'll be late, so don't y'all all pack up and move from there. Besides, I'm already budgeting for the calories of a burger.
- jakelumetta 17y agoI'm down. This should be awesome.
- there 17y agoi'll try to come down from the nw suburbs for this. now if i could just find a train schedule...
- dschobel 17y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879439 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879439
- rman666 17y agoThe Security Decisions Conference will be in downtown Chicago 10/21 and 10/22. Any chance the meeting could be held then? You'd probably get a lot of infosec people. See http://infosecuritydecisions.techtarget.com/infosecuritydecisions/index.html http://infosecuritydecisions.techtarget.com/infosecuritydeci... for details.
- jrockway 17y agoNice. Thanks for finally getting Chicago organized! I am both looking forward to and dreading meeting tptacek in real life ;)