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HN Meet-up Netherlands
From some previous topics I've seen many Dutch people active on Hacker News. I guess it is time to organise a meet-up. So leave a comment if you are in. And of course it would nice if we get his post somehow visible long enough to reach more people.
- Kliment 17y agoI'm reasonably close (Cologne, Germany). I'd be interested.
- vanschelven 17y agoI'm in (Utrecht)
- birger 17y agoLiving in Delft, Netherlands. I would be interested. I can also arrange a meeting place here for (almost) free.
- sandis 17y agoWould love to attend, as long as there would be some talks in English (I don't know Dutch that well). I'm in Haarlem / Amsterdam.
- egor83 17y agoSame here, interested but not fluent in Dutch yet. I'm in Enschede.
- neilb 17y agoThat comment could have been from me! Ditto.
- evannyx 17y agoDitto. I hope there are some lectures in English.
- dhoe 17y agoSame here, I'd say we have a reasonable non-Dutch speaking minority. Amsterdam.
- wlievens 17y agoThe dutch-speaking people (flemish and dutch) are typically fairly good at english so that shouldn't be a problem at all.
- com 17y agoI'd love to attend, Utrecht is the right location (although I'm in Amsterdam). I'm kinda fluent in Dutch if you can handle brutalised word order and a particularly nasty English accent in Dutch :-)
- aerique 17y agoInterested but not definitely in. (The missus is due the 30th.) I'm in Delft.
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- Gnan 17y agoDefinitely interested. I am in Eindhoven.
- sborsje 17y agoInterested! I'm in Dordrecht.
- Janteh 17y agoI'm interested but not definitely, located in Enschede but can travel in the weekends.
- beatlevic 17y agoInterested. I'm in Amsterdam.
- wouterinho 17y agoI would love to meet some Dutch HN-ers! I'm also in Amsterdam.
- fretje 17y agoInterested. I'm in Ghent, Belgium. I can travel in the weekends.
- warp 17y agoI'm in Rotterdam, possibly interested.
- robertgaal 17y agoIn! I'm in Amsterdam.
- mno 17y agoInterested, Amsterdam!
- sixbit 17y agoInterested, Amsterdam :-)
- spongebob 17y agoInterested, Eindhoven. Unfortunately, my Dutch is not good, i hope there will be some talks in English.
- mvaerle 17y agoI'm interested too, I'm in Eindhoven but any big city is ok.
- wlievens 17y agoDefinitely interested, make that a vote for Eindhoven (closer to Belgium).
- BjornW 17y agoDefinately interested. Located in Utrecht and able to provide a space.
- beeker 17y agowhat is your theoretical maximum amount of people (we don't need to sit)? and the walking time from Central station?
- Thyraon 17y agoI'm interested and I'm from Eindhoven. Traveling is generally no problem.
- birger 17y agoWhat should a meet-up be like? Should there be presentations, workshops or just share drinks and ideas? Please comment with suggestions!
- nichol4s 17y agoInterested, Amsterdam.
- bucciarati 17y agoAmsterdam++
- rosejn 17y agoI'm in as well. Amsterdam.
- jayrex 17y agoI'm interested too, i live in the north of Belgium, so Eindhoven would be great :)
- bittersweet 17y agoI'm down! Amsterdam
- kilian 17y agoInterested! (and peer pressured into joining for just this!) Amsterdam or Utrecht, Delft will all do :)
- gumbah 17y agoCool! I prefer Amsterdam or Utrecht.
- durdn 17y agoCool idea! I live in Amsterdam too. I'm game.
- mdemare 17y agoWow, there are a lot of us! Amsterdam or Utrecht preferred.
- DougBTX 17y agoInterested, Amsterdam/Utrecht is good for me.
- mtrimpe 17y ago+1 on Amsterdam, Utrecht will do as well though.
- vanschelven 17y agoIf Utrecht is an acceptable place we could do it at iGluu (my shared office) 15 euros each for drinks & location for a couple of hours. Looks like this: http://www.igluu.nl/img/slideshowOneSpace/050.jpg http://www.igluu.nl/img/slideshowOneSpace/050.jpg 10 min. walk from Utrecht C.S. (train station) Car: parking available nearby but Utrecht will be Utrecht. I've got two possible dates: 29th of December, 7th of January. (unfortunately I can't make it myself on the 7th). In both cases the time would be c. 19:00 - 22:00 I'm not sure on the proper way to do this but I guess upvoting your preference would do the trick. Edit: location, time.
- vanschelven 17y ago29th of December
- vanschelven 17y ago7th of January
- jvdh 17y agoIt already looks like this is going to be too small.
- coretx 17y agointerested :)
- petervdr 17y agoInterested! Live in Utrecht but could travel to Amsterdam easily. Would be nice to have 1 or 2 presentations I think, as it spices up the evening.
- berryg 17y agoAlso interested.
- DavidChip 17y agoInterested and in Antwerp, but most cities in Holland won't be a problem.
- romland 17y agoYet another interested! Originally from Sweden, but living in Groningen. But location of the meet-up should not be a problem. :)
- beeker 17y agoUpdate 1 I'm for a democracy of input, but a autocratic way of making decisions. Hence the following. - place of meeting: in Utrecht - Date: soon (tbd) - Digital home (temporary): here on HN or http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-nl/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-nl/ - Non-commercial and low-cost (so no Igluu) - Important? Passion&Spirit I would like to organise this thing. Seriously. Lifelong hacker but rusty on the tech-skills. So I have developed reasonable social skills ;) If you all have a true interest in this I would be a very happy man. Suggestions are welcome regarding: - possible locations in Utrecht - presentation-style (long-medium-short) - topics
- birger 17y agoI think www.seats2meet.com (located at the central station) is THE place for meetings like this in Utrecht.
- NiekvdMaas 17y agoUtrecht++
- BjornW 17y agoI'm willing to help out organizing. I live in utrecht. Have contacts with seats2meet and can also offer a free space. Contact me through my profile.
- evannyx 17y agoFacebook group created: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=212933951463 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=212933951463
- mtrimpe 17y agoCould we have a poll on what city to do the meetup in?
- beeker 17y agoNo
- beeker 17y agoLet me explain myself. More input, more ideas and in my humble experience reduces the likelihood of getting things done quickly. We can discuss on cities for months, everybody wants to have it close to their home, but it simply can't be close for all. Hence I choose Utrecht: central and in general easy to reach by public transport/car. So no poll please. And we do want everybody to be able to attend this meet-up.
- jvdh 17y agoI'm down for that! I'm from Utrecht.
- gritzko 17y agoI'm interested, I live in Leiden.
- matthijs 17y agoSounds great, I prefer Utrecht
- jrnkntl 17y agoI see a lot of votes for Utrecht and Amsterdam. These cities are a 25 minutes travel from each other. Like birger said: seats2meet.com is a great concept that we can use for this meetup. I am definitely game. But organizing this on HN is going to be hard. The Yahoo group is an option to make some clear arrangements.
- wawawawa 17y agoThis is a great point. I always forget how easy travel is here...
- jmulder 17y agoI work in Amsterdam and live nearby.
- cwg 17y agoCount me in (Eindhoven). Early January would be perfect for me.
- wlievens 17y agoMaybe we should call it a Dutch-Flemish meetup and pick Eindhoven for a central location?
- rosejn 17y agoIf an intro to Clojure and/or musical programming (live-coding) sounds interesting to people I'd be happy to present and demo an audio synthesis system I've been working on. (http://github.com/rosejn/overtone http://github.com/rosejn/overtone) It uses an interesting DSL for reading and writing binary files, does some networking, and lets you define DSP graphs for synthesizing audio.
- evannyx 17y agoI'm interested in both! An intro to SuperCollider would be nice too =)
- jauco 17y agoInterested. Utrecht and amsterdam are both fine by me. Sneek would be to much of a commute :)
- egor83 17y agoI'm in, living in Enschede, so I'd prefer Utrecht to Amsterdam.
- wawawawa 17y agoI'm in Amsterdam and interested....
- chriseidhof 17y agoAnother vote for Utrecht.
- dlib 17y agoRotterdam, interested Utrecht or Amsterdam won't be a problem
- BjornW 17y agofor more information on the meetup check this link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011911 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011911
- anne 17y agoVery interested. I am in Eindhoven.