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HN Meetup, Bangalore

121 points by ad93611 ↗ HN
There seems to be enough interest[1] for a HN meetup similar to the one at Delhi. Let us meet at my place in Bangalore.

Location: 522, 16th Cross, 2nd "A" Main, 6th Sector, HSR Layout

Time: 4pm onwards, Day: Sunday - 21st April

Please drop your confirmation in comments below. It will be good if people can bring some snacks and drinks to share as well. Please come even if you don't bring anything. :)

My phone number in hex is 218EC1161, if you want to reach me.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5563261

73 comments

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saravk
Great job with the phone number. I'll try to make it.
nagarch
May Not join but keep in touch :)
aangjie
I'll drop in. Though i'll be coming from chennai.
aangjie
Oops sorry guys, last minute personal work came up. can't make the commute from chennai. ah well some other time
[dead] aangjie
Oops sorry guys, last minute personal work came up. can't make the commute from chennai. ah well some other time
peterjancelis
You should post this on http://hackerstreet.in/ as well.
fakeer
This one is more like a personal forum where people (maybe) known or close to the owner of domain/forum rule(just my somewhat far fetched speculation). There are no set forum rules or guidelines and the one that they follow on "as it comes" are decided after seeing who the guy is in question. A newbie, a lurker or an established founder or so.

So, my request is to keep it HN Meetup and not to make it HS Meetup or H(S+N) Meetup.

Personal experience; so this jm2c of mine might be biased as well.

prateekdayal
> people (maybe) known or close to the owner of domain/forum rule

Any examples of this behavior? Who is currently ruling HSI? I would be very interested in hearing more on this.

fakeer
As I said it was just my two cents and here http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=23904 is what I had seen there and was referring to. Though, I myself was not very active on HS and never visited after this. There was one more incident that I couldn't find in my browser history.

It's not sth serious but I was very disturbed to see how one guy had raised a valid concern and almost everyone jumped on him with logic like "this is from a star personality", "it was not posted by someone from the company" and "one person didn't find it relevant, others did". The last one was very odd and even more add was the related founder's reaction. The guy (who had originally raised the question) had just mentioned and pointed out the similarity and the he(founder) was like http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=23917.

And worst of all, people found it irrelevant when someone wanted to share a simple nice feedback(http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=23765); even forum owner(pd) frowned upon it(well, he was the firs one). And the entire community showed its double standard when it came to someone more successful, known on forum. Sadly the guy(who had first raised the concern) didn't post anything after that and neither the guy whose post was frowned upon.

Maybe rightly so, because I guess it was just me and that guy who found it odd or maybe some more people. This doesn't happen on HN. Here are too far many people for one post's fate to be decided by a small circle.

Here, if you deserve it, you get it!

@prateekdayal: Please understand that I didn't mean any offence if you took any. I had the almost the same questions and if you check my ID there(same as HN) I hardly participated, I was just a lurker but still I found it odd and not well handled. Maybe HS needs to mature and more members with down-voting power needs to be there, which shall certainly take time. 'People known to forum owner' was a remark marked as a 'maybe' and that's what it was. Yes, it did sound like an allegation of some sort(apologies, if it did) but then again it was based upon the behaviour I observed.

Thanks for coming here yourself and replying.

abhaga
Disagreeing with someone is not the same as jumping on him! Did you find any of the replies personally insulting the person who raised the concerns? Or making fun of him or writing him off? If you did, that is precisely what the down vote is for. You will notice that the person raising the point was not downvoted into oblivion.

If it is nothing serious, please don't tell people to not go and participate in the board.

prateekdayal
Funny thing is that people simply go out and post their un-informed opinions and write off the work that people (moderators in this case) have been doing for years to keep HSI healthy. For example, I have never even met Webengage founder and he is certainly not a friend and hence getting upvoted. Friend of the community and getting upvoted? Maybe.

> Sadly the guy(who had first raised the concern) didn't post anything after that and neither the guy whose post was frowned upon.

The guy who was 'jumped on' is still active and commenting on HSI. So is the guy that posted the second thread.

In the end, please raise your concerns but don't discourage people from visiting HSI or 'mixing' without getting your facts right. Thanks

jace
I haven't seen any such behaviour on HSI. Prateek even goes out of his way to keep a low profile there.
[dead] da32
HS may have evolved into the HN of India because of Prateek's efforts but it has still retained its own identity.
f1codz
any agenda? what usually happens at such a meetup?
gshahlot
This is great. Small suggestion: Moving it to a place outside the home/office zone might be good.

Might I suggest a more open location, perhaps something on the lines of Barleyz or Arbor brewery?

hzay
+1 for barleyz - great place for something like this!
ashishb4u
I had the exact thoughts. Berleyz is walking distance from my place, so +1 to Berleyz.
treskot
Barleyz in Kormangala is great! Very near to my place. Can make it.
grease
I'll try to make it
grease
If you guys are ok, I don't mind sponsoring pizza for the meet. Let me know.
freemanindia
I'll try to make it and have some grease pizza
_parjun
Great idea. I hope I can make it :)
jmaddox
Great, very nice to hear. I all try to join. Created account for the first time in HN for posting comments.
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anupcowkur
I'm in! And bringing a buddy along too.
ad93611
People seem to prefer a more common location. Let us meet here at Barleyz instead, http://www.zomato.com/bangalore/barleyz-the-brew-house-koram...

I also created a facebook group for contacting people coming for this meetup. Please join the group, if you are coming. https://www.facebook.com/groups/482115068527962/

@grease, thanks for the pizza offer. maybe you could sponsor appetisers instead? :)

I'm looking forward to this!

grease
Yep, starters on me. Or recruiterbox, to be more precise :)

Look forward.