HN Meet-up Netherlands

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=998352

by beeker • 17 years ago

58 75 17 years ago

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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• 17 years ago

I'm reasonably close (Cologne, Germany). I'd be interested.

vanschelven4• 17 years ago

I'm in (Utrecht)

birger4• 17 years ago

Living in Delft, Netherlands. I would be interested. I can also arrange a meeting place here for (almost) free.

aerique2• 17 years ago

What place would that be? I'm in Delft as well.

birger4• 17 years ago

That would be www.hetmeisjeshuis.nl. Here we have out monthly drinks and other activities with the ICT-Kring Delft (society with about 140 ICT entrepreneurs).

sandis• 17 years ago

Would 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.

egor832• 17 years ago

Same here, interested but not fluent in Dutch yet. I'm in Enschede.

neilb• 17 years ago

That comment could have been from me! Ditto.

evannyx3• 17 years ago

Ditto. I hope there are some lectures in English.

dhoe• 17 years ago

Same here, I'd say we have a reasonable non-Dutch speaking minority. Amsterdam.

wlievens3• 17 years ago

The dutch-speaking people (flemish and dutch) are typically fairly good at english so that shouldn't be a problem at all.

com• 17 years ago

I'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 :-)

aerique2• 17 years ago

Interested but not definitely in. (The missus is due the 30th.)

I'm in Delft.

Gnan• 17 years ago

Definitely interested. I am in Eindhoven.

sborsje• 17 years ago

Interested! I'm in Dordrecht.

Janteh• 17 years ago

I'm interested but not definitely, located in Enschede but can travel in the weekends.

beatlevic• 17 years ago

Interested. I'm in Amsterdam.

wouterinho• 17 years ago

I would love to meet some Dutch HN-ers! I'm also in Amsterdam.

fretje• 17 years ago

Interested. I'm in Ghent, Belgium. I can travel in the weekends.

warp• 17 years ago

I'm in Rotterdam, possibly interested.

robertgaal• 17 years ago

In! I'm in Amsterdam.

mno• 17 years ago

Interested, Amsterdam!

sixbit• 17 years ago

Interested, Amsterdam :-)

spongebob• 17 years ago

Interested, Eindhoven. Unfortunately, my Dutch is not good, i hope there will be some talks in English.

mvaerle• 17 years ago

I'm interested too, I'm in Eindhoven but any big city is ok.

wlievens3• 17 years ago

Definitely interested, make that a vote for Eindhoven (closer to Belgium).

BjornW3• 17 years ago

Definately interested. Located in Utrecht and able to provide a space.

beeker4• 17 years ago

what is your theoretical maximum amount of people (we don't need to sit)? and the walking time from Central station?

Thyraon• 17 years ago

I'm interested and I'm from Eindhoven. Traveling is generally no problem.

birger4• 17 years ago

What should a meet-up be like? Should there be presentations, workshops or just share drinks and ideas? Please comment with suggestions!

nichol4s• 17 years ago

Interested, Amsterdam.

bucciarati• 17 years ago

Amsterdam++

rosejn2• 17 years ago

I'm in as well. Amsterdam.

jayrex• 17 years ago

I'm interested too, i live in the north of Belgium, so Eindhoven would be great :)

bittersweet• 17 years ago

I'm down! Amsterdam

kilian• 17 years ago

Interested! (and peer pressured into joining for just this!) Amsterdam or Utrecht, Delft will all do :)

gumbah• 17 years ago

Cool! I prefer Amsterdam or Utrecht.

durdn• 17 years ago

Cool idea! I live in Amsterdam too. I'm game.

mdemare• 17 years ago

Wow, there are a lot of us! Amsterdam or Utrecht preferred.

DougBTX• 17 years ago

Interested, Amsterdam/Utrecht is good for me.

mtrimpe2• 17 years ago

+1 on Amsterdam, Utrecht will do as well though.

vanschelven4• 17 years ago

If 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

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.

vanschelven4• 17 years ago

29th of December

vanschelven4• 17 years ago

7th of January

jvdh2• 17 years ago

It already looks like this is going to be too small.

coretx• 17 years ago

interested :)

petervdr• 17 years ago

Interested! 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• 17 years ago

Also interested.

DavidChip• 17 years ago

Interested and in Antwerp, but most cities in Holland won't be a problem.

romland• 17 years ago

Yet another interested! Originally from Sweden, but living in Groningen. But location of the meet-up should not be a problem. :)

beeker4• 17 years ago

Update 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/ - 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

birger4• 17 years ago

I think www.seats2meet.com (located at the central station) is THE place for meetings like this in Utrecht.

NiekvdMaas• 17 years ago

Utrecht++

BjornW3• 17 years ago

I'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.

evannyx3• 17 years ago

Facebook group created: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=212933951463

mtrimpe2• 17 years ago

Could we have a poll on what city to do the meetup in?

beeker4• 17 years ago

Let 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.

jvdh2• 17 years ago

I'm down for that! I'm from Utrecht.

gritzko• 17 years ago

I'm interested, I live in Leiden.

matthijs• 17 years ago

Sounds great, I prefer Utrecht

jrnkntl• 17 years ago

I 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.

wawawawa2• 17 years ago

This is a great point. I always forget how easy travel is here...

jmulder• 17 years ago

I work in Amsterdam and live nearby.

cwg• 17 years ago

Count me in (Eindhoven). Early January would be perfect for me.

wlievens3• 17 years ago

Maybe we should call it a Dutch-Flemish meetup and pick Eindhoven for a central location?

rosejn2• 17 years ago

If 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) It uses an interesting DSL for reading and writing binary files, does some networking, and lets you define DSP graphs for synthesizing audio.

evannyx3• 17 years ago

I'm interested in both!

An intro to SuperCollider would be nice too =)

jauco• 17 years ago

Interested. Utrecht and amsterdam are both fine by me. Sneek would be to much of a commute :)

egor832• 17 years ago

I'm in, living in Enschede, so I'd prefer Utrecht to Amsterdam.

wawawawa2• 17 years ago

I'm in Amsterdam and interested....

chriseidhof• 17 years ago

Another vote for Utrecht.

dlib• 17 years ago

Rotterdam, interested

Utrecht or Amsterdam won't be a problem

BjornW3• 17 years ago

for more information on the meetup check this link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011911

anne• 17 years ago

Very interested. I am in Eindhoven.

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