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Ask HN: Who is meeting up? (December 2012)

68 points by whoishiring ↗ HN
Let's try to build a list of all Hacker News meet up groups and organize new groups for cities that don't have one yet.

Please post the name of your city and a link to your group.

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0ren
San Francisco

http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Hacker-News-Meetup/

The first meetup a couple of days ago was successful- thanks Dan for organizing it and Coderwall for hosting. Hope to see more of these.

Also: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gosfhn http://sfhn.eventbrite.com

lowglow
We really enjoyed having everyone out. We'll be having these bi-monthly from now on, so expect another in late january.

I'll also try to do other nice things for members. For instance, we will have a free lottery for an after-hours secret showing of the movie "Hackers" at The Roxie.

newy
Vancouver*

http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-Vancouver

* - New group! Let's see whether there are enough of us to start a regular meetup.

Cyranix
Do you think it would be reasonable to make this a joint Victoria/Vancouver group? Ferry times might make it a non-starter, but thought I should float it out there...
Pwnguinz
I was ecstatic when I saw the link, then my heart drooped after clicking and seeing only 4 hackers were part of the group :(.
hippich
Austin, TX - new group - let's see if we can get together.

http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-ATX/

ericabiz
I'm sure Capital Factory can host this. Also, get in touch with Josh Baer--he writes the Austin StartupDigest every Sunday, and it goes out Monday morning. It lists all the tech-related events in Austin and it's what many people in Austin read to find events. If you're not on it, definitely subscribe as well: http://austin.startupdigest.com/

If you need help with intros for event space, etc., let me know. Contact info in my profile.

utnick
In related news, we are trying to get a reddit group started for startup related stuff in austin: /r/austinstartups
kitcar
Toronto: http://www.meetup.com/HNToronto/
4clicknet
Good to hear there's a HN meetup in Toronto! Any idea why it's set up as a private group? All the other HN meetup groups I checked on this page are public.
kitcar
I don't know, sorry (not my group)
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bthomas
Great idea. Would love one in Boston/Cambridge, anybody else interested?
rb2k_
I'll be in Boston Dec 7th -> Jan 25th.

I'd be interested!

noelopan
I'm in
bthomas
Hey guys/gals, I set up a Boston HN meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/hn-boston/

Join if interested. Want to meet at a bar after work the week of Dec 10th?

whichdan
Just joined. I'd be down for a meetup as long as it isn't 30* out. Can we do something downtown? Cambridge is great, but it's an hour each way for me.
co_pl_te
I would also be interested in a Boston/Cambridge meet up. There was talk about this a few weeks back. Would love to see this happen.
bmelton
DC - http://meetup.hackernewsdc.org/

It seems like it is literally always run when I'm out of town, but I've heard nothing but greatness abounds.

dannyr
It sucks there's nothing scheduled. I'm in town until Tuesday, visiting from SF. It would have been nice to meet other HNers in DC.
alanpca
Detroit - Anybody have one setup / interested in setting one up?
oellegaard
Denmark - Aarhus or Copenhagen, who is in? :-)
jchrisa
Talk to @CopenhagenJS they are well connected in the meetup scene.
oellegaard
Noticed they were very active, but the "JS" part made me lose the interest :( Are there meetups more general, that one would think, taking the name into consideration?
jchrisa
It's a fair amount of overlap with other language communities as well.
mercurial
I'd be up for Aarhus if anybody is in the area.
fatalerrorx3
Are there any in NYC? If not, does anyone want to start one?
seankean
Here is the Hacker News Meetup Everywhere for NYC: http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News/New-York-NY/

It's rather empty but I'd like to get it going - please help: join and let's set a date and place!! I just got back from Seattle where the hacker news meetup is a big event - let's do the same in NYC!

fatalerrorx3
Were you working in Seattle, or just on vacation? Two kids I graduated highschool with work at MSFT out there, curious how big of a HN meetup it is out there...been thinking about actually moving to the left coast within the next few years, never been there but would like to be. I'm currently working on a health IT startup about 30 mins outside of NYC, it's just me and 2 others, but I'm the only technical guy...looking to find some other technical people who want to solve tough problems in health IT that's why I'm looking to start attending some meetups in the city...is anyone else here interested, or currently working in health IT?
fatalerrorx3
Just joined the meetup group EDITED: Just checked out your site, and see that you were out in Seattle for an incubator, answered my own question ^ lol
seankean
Hi there - yes I was out in Seattle for two accelerators actually - Microsoft Accelerator for Kinect powered by TechStars ( http://kinectaccelerator.com ) and Fledge - a conscious company incubator ( http://fledge.co ).

The Seattle hacker news meetup - which I've gone to at least once - maybe twice - seemed massive --- like 200+ people show up... I'd say its kind of an anchor of the tech community out there - kind of like the NY Tech meetup here.

Healthcare tech --- I know there's been a fair amount of people show up to my Kinect meetup group with that interest --- we should actually do an event on the topic - perhaps you'd like to help organize something? It's at http://meetup.com/volumetric . Meetups are a great way to find people to work with. Hackathons are even better.

My email is on my hacker news profile - feel free to get in touch to chat more about Seattle or healthcare tech. :)

-Sean

davesmylie
Hamilton NZ? There's nothing here now, but happy to try and organise something if there is anyone else interested?