Tell HN: Toronto Meetup Success

12 points by danrho 3y ago ↗ HN

We have been having weekly HN meetups at Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St W, Toronto, every Monday at 6pm. If you are in the Toronto Area, come down and say hi!

Huge thanks to unintendedcons for organising/maintaining this ongoing series of events, and thanks to all who have attended so far.

We have a website at https://mondays.pizza/

We also have a telegram group, but we are discussing to switching to a more open platform/standard. In the interests of preventing spam, I will not share a direct link, but if you want to be added to the telegram group, you can email me at: tpm-tg-signup-temporary-address@danrh.co.uk

Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33067822

Hope to see even more HN'ers next Monday!

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emmanuel_1234 3y ago ↗

I've been attending this for a few month, and it is properly excellent. Very much an opportunity to geek out with other nerds around some food and beverage, that I am looking forward to every Mondays.

lostgame 3y ago ↗

I can vouch for the quality of these events and the attendees. It's been a consistently fun, interesting experience and I've made some neat connections.

version_five 3y ago ↗

Curious if someone could give an indication of the age range that attends?

Edit: thanks for the replies!

emmanuel_1234 3y ago ↗

Quite diverse. Fairly young people mix with 40+ like me.

danrho 3y ago ↗

Quite broad - I'm one of the younger ones, at 25. Most of the other regulars are probably between 5 and 25 years older than I am

techpizza 3y ago ↗

Thanks for posting this!

Right now participants are roughly half HN readers and half Fediverse users. I wonder if this post will tip the scales?

danrho 3y ago ↗

Update on the group chat situation for anyone who finds this thread later: we are now using XMPP to chat at xmpp:techpizzamondays@chat.404.city?join

This is now the "official" group chat.

I forgot to mention this in my original post, but there is also a Mastodon account, where any important news is posted, at https://social.linux.pizza/@Techpizzamondays