Hacker News London meetup on 29th Sep with Harj

http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/events/34527022/

by dmitri1981 • 15 years ago

55 34 15 years ago

Peroni• 15 years ago

Typical. The first HN Londeon meet-up in 5 months that I can't attend and you go and get a bigger venue and bag a YC Partner to give a talk.

krigath• 15 years ago

Yeah, I would really love to go too, but I just went up to university in Scotland.

jgrahamc2• 15 years ago

Bummer. A Hacker News meetup in London and I'm going to be in Mountain View.

dmitri19818• 15 years ago

We've been doing them for over a year and I was really surprised you have not come along yet.

jgrahamc2• 15 years ago

Somehow I managed to miss the fact that they were happening. Where should I be signing up for notification?

EDIT: OK, I'm now following your Twitter feed. Silly me.

dasil003• 15 years ago

LOL I'm here in London for two weeks from Mountain View.

_b8r04• 15 years ago

Is there a reason you chose not to do it in a pub?

rlpb• 15 years ago

We usually end up in the pub after the talks.

_b8r04• 15 years ago

I know, I went a while back. It seems to me like holding it in a school and making beer runs seems counterproductive.

Most of the other regular london hackery type talk events (Hacks/Hackers, DC4420 spring to mind) take place in pubs.

Just curious, that's all.

antihero5• 15 years ago

Hopefully a cheap one? :) Seeing as some of us will be paying travel to get there.

beaumartinez• 15 years ago

> I was wondering if any of you fancied volunteering to help out. In particular we are looking for 2-3 people to help out with name badges and the beer run.

I'd be more than happy to help—my email's in my profile. Let me know what needs doing and when. (I haven't got anything to record with though.)

dmitri19818• 15 years ago

thanks. a small army has already been recruited.

antihero5• 15 years ago

Do you have to get tickets or anything? Do I just turn up like a normal internet site meetup?

I could help with a beer run if I get there earlier. I may suck at startups but I'm pretty practised at obtaining alcohol :)

dmitri19818• 15 years ago

Sign up on meetup to help us track numbers. Otherwise just turn up. Thanks for the offer of help, think we just need a video person now.

antihero5• 15 years ago

That's cool :) Have done! Sounds like it could be interesting. Currently I'm starting out freelancing as a Web Developer so I'm sucking up any knowledge I can get my hands on (I'd like to expand and build it into a proper business).

revorad• 15 years ago

We should have a hackathon at one of these.

antihero5• 15 years ago

That would be awesome. Somehow I've yet to attend a proper hackday but it seems like it would be a great experience.

ig1• 15 years ago

http://charityhack.org/ is happening this weekend if you want to go to one

lukke• 15 years ago

Can you please insert the event details here to the thread, too? I believe I'm not the only one who can't access meetup.com due to company blocking the site.

dmitri19818• 15 years ago

Thursday, September 29, 2011, 6:30 PM

Central Foundation Boys School

Cowper Street, London (map) Entrance through the blue doors on Cowper St, opposite XOYO.

I am very excited to announce the next Hacker News London meetup. After months of searching we have finally secured a new, large venue that will be able to accommodate all those who wish to come along, right next to the Old St roundabout.

However, the highlight of the evening is that Harj Taggar, YC partner and founder of Auctomatic, will be our headline speaker. In addition Harj will also hold a Q&A session, so please send us your questions or bring them along that evening. If you are looking to apply to YC or find out more about it, this is the perfect opportunity.

JacobAldridge• 15 years ago

I've been to a few of these now, even spoke at the last one, and it's an event each month that I really look forward to.

If you're close enough to London to make it home afterwards, then do what you can and make the effort to be there - well worthwhile.

snaveint• 15 years ago

This looks great. What is the format like? Should I be concerned about being a loner if I come by myself?

dmitri19818• 15 years ago

We'll start out with a few beers and pizzas, then do some talks and presentations followed by more beers. The crowd is really friendly and you'll meet lots of great new people.

lukes2• 15 years ago

I went as a loner as it was fine. The people are friendly and there are other loners around who will talk to you if you stand around when the talks aren't on.

shocks2• 15 years ago

Is there an IRC channel or something similar we can talk about the meetup in?

dmitri19818• 15 years ago

Mike Mahemoff set this up a while back, though it prob needs some more promoting to get it going.

https://convore.com/hnlondon/

lukes2• 15 years ago

There's lots of HNers in #startups on freenode

shocks2• 15 years ago

Ah thanks, I'll definitely check it out!

rayhano• 15 years ago

When Hacker News holds an event, schedules need to make way!

Hacker News London meetup on 29th Sep with Harj

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