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tbassetto
Thanks for writing this summary :) It was a real pleasure to see so many people (+ not French-speaking).

As discussed yesterday, next time we'll probably use badges to spark discussions and we'll find more time for recruiting sessions and MVP demos :)

BTW, we're looking for sponsors. hint hint

thomas11
Thanks for posting the summary. I imagine it helps forming a somewhat coherent group.

Some of your activities could be a good inspiration for the next HN Zurich meetup, which reminds me...

sterling
Just curious - was it mostly in French? English? Mixed?
sylvinus
All the presentations were and will remain in english. There was a fair share of people that didn't speak french, which is good!
tbassetto
English-only. Which is quite an achievement in France ;)
Jun8
Which raises an interesting question: Should local hacker/nerd/entrepreneurial communities adopt an all-English approach or should they strive to invent at least some new vocabulary and use those.
officemonkey
The fact that the _Paris_ meetup was conducted in English and not French means the question has already been settled.
mrspeaker
It was a really fun night: quite different to most meetups (thanks to the diverse range of people that HN attracts)... so there was something for everyone!
ovi256
Really cool night, cool people, nice talks, interesting demos. Can't wait to do it again. And hope we'll hatch a nefarious plan to have PG over :)
sylvain_
Thanks for this great summary and thank you all guys, it was a great start I think ! The buzzwords session was really fun.
fmw
The event was hosted by Sylvinus (CTO of Joshfire.com) at the Joshfire office. He did a splendid job. I'm very appreciative of the effort and the event was quite successful. Thanks for the pizza and beer (and for allowing me to babble on about Clojure ;)
sylvinus
well, thanks! You sir are a gentleman and a scholar, I hope you can make it to the next ones!

Thanks again for coming and shedding some light on this weird Clojure thing ;-)

enqk
great event, great host and interesting spontaneous interventions.
czzarr
can't believe i missed that, I wasn't aware a lot of people were reading HN in Paris :O
tribeofone
Me too. Looking forward to the next event!
yardie
Damn, I just came back from vacation when I received the notification yesterday. Sunburned and jetlagged, I could not make it.

See you in September!

dananjaya86
It was a great event..kudos for Sylvinus for organizing the meetup and for the Pizza and Beer!
sylvinus
you also have to thank tbassetto for that! :)
eneveu
Great event, awesome host and lots of good / original ideas for a meetup. I'm used to technology meetups with pre-planned presentations, but the top-10 / buzzwords "improvised" discussions were actually really cool.

As a bonus point, I got to practice my English. Still need to get rid of my french accent, though...

EDIT: I forgot to add the two links I talked about, in case you were interested but didn't write them down:

- http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo... --> HN RSS and Twitter feeds

- http://html5slides.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/template/index.h... / http://code.google.com/p/html5slides/ --> Google's HTML slide templates (relatively similar to those used at Google I/O 2011)