Ask HN: interested in a SF East Bay HN meetup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1502606

by Timothee • 16 years ago

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I was wondering if there would be any interest in a HN meetup in the East Bay (Berkeley-Emeryville-Oakland area)

Please upvote and/or comment if you are interested.

Not quite sure where it could take place, but feel free to offer suggestions as well. (I'm thinking more of a happy-hour kind of thing)

asimjalis• 16 years ago

I'm in San Ramon.

aaroneous• 16 years ago

Oakland here

bpick• 16 years ago

Albany, for the win.

kineticac8• 16 years ago

Ever goto the Pub on Solano? Not sure if that's still Albany though, but I consider it Albany since I can walk to it from my house ;)

DTrejo• 16 years ago

YES. I just recently graduated from AHS. Albany is great.

kineticac8• 16 years ago

congratz! i also graduated from AHS, but back in 2001 =X I'm old.

ambulatorybird• 16 years ago

Berkeley.

jackfoxy• 16 years ago

Danville

avk• 16 years ago

Any one of Berkeley, Emeryville, or Oakland would be great!

In Berkeley there's:

- the new David Bower center (aka The Hub) in downtown

- Caffe Med on Telegraph near campus is pretty spacious

- the 2 story Starbucks on Oxford & Center in downtown

Emeryville is kind of limited:

- Peet's on Bay Street seems roomy

Oakland:

- A'Cuppa Tea on College & Alcatraz is bigger than the average local coffee shop, open late, and has free Wifi

I'd also be happy to put you in touch with someone in Startup @ Berkeley for more help and ideas.

philipn• 16 years ago

Citizen Engagement Lab (http://engagementlab.org) is in the David Brower Center and may be able to host.

Reply if there's interest..

CenozoicOwl• 16 years ago

I live in Oakland, but Cafe Med is nice enough that I won't bother rooting for the home town.

kineticac8• 16 years ago

I'd also vote for Philz Coffee towards the north end of Berkeley, I've worked out of there whenever I'm not meeting down @ YC in mountain view. The coffee is fuel for me (other than cheesily being motivated by happy tweets from fanvibe users =)

If it's a late night gathering, I love going to the Pub in Albany/North Berkeley. Awesome atmosphere, awesome belgian beers. Pretty cool people there too. it's well lit, no music, so it's easy to talk and hang out in.

chemistry• 16 years ago

The Pub is great, North Oakland here.

programnature• 16 years ago

Berkeley.

The new philz on shattuck and cedar is also nice

bdr5• 16 years ago

I'm there now! Email me if you want to meet up. </old_school_loopt>

kineticac8• 16 years ago

I've been going to Philz a few times a week when I'm not down in Mountain View =) It's a really cool spot, park on lincoln during the week for 2 hours of free parking. Open till 9pm too, and good amount of space in the back.

kineticac8• 16 years ago

Also, wonder if we could talk to the owners about "reserving" that back area where there's couches. Depending on the size of the group, might be doable without reservation.

cageface• 16 years ago

Sounds good. Anywhere in the East Bay is fine but Oakland or Berkeley would be ideal.

randall2• 16 years ago

Berkeley / Albany / El Cerrito

kineticac8• 16 years ago

randall you live in the area too? commute to sf daily?

randall2• 16 years ago

Yeah, I work @ justin.tv

ztravis• 16 years ago

Berkeley.

rms• 16 years ago

I'll be living in Berkeley starting in August. I'm up for meeting anywhere, but don't delay the meetup on my account.

neilc• 16 years ago

I'm interested. Berkeley / North Oakland preferred, but anywhere nearby would be fine.

jey2• 16 years ago

We could meet up tonight. A bunch of East Bay redditors are getting together tonight at Jupiter in Downtown Berkeley, right next to the BART stop. Some people will be getting there around 8:30pm and people will be trickling in all night. I'll be the nerdy looking 24 year old bearded Indian kid. Email me if you want my phone number.

There's also an AVC meetup tomorrow in Berkeley. http://www.meetup.com/AVC/11501/

bdr5• 16 years ago

Right now it seems I'm the only person besides the creator signed up for the AVC meetup http://www.meetup.com/AVC/11502/.

jey2• 16 years ago

Looks like a dupe. Yours ends in 11502, but 11501 has a few signups.

bdr5• 16 years ago

I'm a member of Berkeley Coworking, at Ashby & Shattuck. It's a good place for meetings. There'd be no need to buy coffee, but cafes nearby if you wanted to.

bdon• 16 years ago

Berkeley! This sounds great.

andrewcamel• 16 years ago

I would definitely like to join. What about some night next week?

gtani• 16 years ago

tomorrow (Sat, 10:30AM) i'll be at Eastbay ruby meetup at UC-B:

http://www.meetup.com/EBRuby/calendar/13618932/?a=nr1p_grp&#...

bdr5• 16 years ago

I made a Google Group to coordinate http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news

Timothee• 16 years ago

Thanks!

It'd be a good thing for people to join this group, if anything so that we don't need to pollute HN with threads about this. (and future events)

Once something is decided we can just post a Tell HN about it.

coffee2• 16 years ago

Berkeley here, up for a meetup in the area

drsnyder• 16 years ago

The Trappist in downtown Oakland is a great spot. Its about 4 blocks from the 12 street BART.

http://www.thetrappist.com/

iamelgringo• 16 years ago

The Hackers and Founders SF meetups are right across the bridge on Pier 38 in Dog Patch labs. Our next one is the 29th: http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders/calendar/13712630...

</shameless plug>

kineticac8• 16 years ago

Dogpatch is an awesome space. I've worked out of there for awhile now, even did a code competition there last year for the RailsRumble.

The Hackers and Founders meetup is fun. I went to the first one that happened at DPL. The keg is a nice touch to the DPL events.

coffee2• 16 years ago

Looks like we have a time setup for Wednesday @ 7:30pm - check http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news for more details...

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