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Melbourne Australia Hacker News/YC Meetup, Sunday 21st February

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What: Hacker News meetup When: 3pm, Sunday 21st of February Where: Match Bar and Grill, 279 Little Lonsdale Stree, corner of Swanston, Melbourne.

Why: By popular demand, we're again inviting Melbourne's Y Combinator/Hackernews devotees to come together for a lazy Sunday afternoon of sunshine & startup talk.

Tom & Fenn, alumni of the Winter 09 Y Combinator program will be there. If you're considering applying to YC, either for the upcoming Summer 10 cycle, or in a future round, this is your chance to talk to Melbourne's only YC startup about their experiences and seek their advice.

But you needn't be a YC aspirant to attend, anyone who procrastinates with obsessive re-reads of PG essays and eloquent dissections Michael Arrington's character is encouraged to come along, as is anyone who manages to avoid such distractions in the pursuit of startup success.

Get along and help make Melbourne the startup hub we know it should be!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272449838595

The last event in October rocked. We had about 40-50 people throughout the afternoon and we kicked on well into the evening.

Hannah's pics are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hannahbabble/sets/7215762251965...

I'm tempted to head over from Adelaide myself. Unfortunately I haven't seen anything of the sorts being organised in Adelaide - we have Startup events, but they're not necessarily focused on Tech.

Sounds pretty good being in Melbourne myself and not really being regularly surrounded by people really interested in start ups.

Should be there if other plans don't get in the way.

Link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272449838595

That link doesn't appear to work for me... it just redirects to my FB homepage.

Ned hadn't set the invite to public. n00b.

I've fixed it... try it now.

Great to see some Aussie meetups. Shame I'm in Sydney. Can anyone point me in the direction of Sydney based meets?

The best way to interact with hackers & founders in Sydney is via Silicon Beach. They have weekly Friday drinks, usually at The Grace.

Check the forums for more info: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia

As for YC meets, you might have to organise one yourself :)

Will be there - great to see there are enough startup oriented Melbournites to make this a possibility!

Sounds pretty awesome. I'll be out of town that weekend though. :-(

Maybe next time?

sometimes it is a shame that NZ is nice and beautiful but far away ... i take there is nothing planned for NZ, is there? Wellington is a living city with many startups we only meet way to rarely.

This sounds great. Do we need to RSVP somewhere, or can we just turn up?

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