Tell HN: MITCNC Startup Engine Series inspired by HN

After reading Hacker News for a year or so, I got sad that the MIT Club of Nor Cal didn't have a Series that dealt with hacker topics. Lots of materials science, solar cells, OLEDs, etc, but basically nothing about internet technology...

... so we started one. The club's new Startup Engine series is going to grab trending topics on Hacker News and pull together a panel on them. Get panelists to answer three questions about a particular topic: what's happened in the past 6 months?; what do we think will happen?; and how should you get involved? Get meaningful advice from practitioners.

First up is mobile applications:

* http://www.mitcnc.org/stateofmobile

* August 19, 6:30PM in SF (KickLabs, 4 blocks from CalTrain)

* On the panel: Google, Appcelerator, Bump Tech, Dropbox

Second up in October is probably: the State of Databases (e.g. NoSQL)? (Or whatever HN is talking about then...; suggestions?)

Anyway, exciting stuff and all, but I wanted to say thanks for inspiring us!

EDIT: mbot3000: Startup Engine events are open to everyone (not just MIT alums).

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Note: The MITCNC is 501c3.