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Ask HN: Aussies, put your hands up

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If you're an Aussie and HN user, say hi!

Brisbane, hi!

Recently moved to Brisbane from Canberra and starting knowtu. Looking at ilab and will make it to opencoffee sometime. Are there any good Brisbane entrepreneurship/tech groups someone could recommend? HN meetup?

Another Brisbane boy here. HN meetup would be great, since we seem to have a few locals. I can probably organise a casual venue one evening in the Valley? Maybe chip in for some drinks or dinner?

I'd be keen for that too.

There are some groups on meetup.com already, like http://www.meetup.com/upstarta-brisbane-qld/

Good to know. I'll be checking that out, and if it seems worth having something HN specific (or, more particularly, HN marketed) I'll put up a post here and drop a line to those Brisbanites mentioned in this post.

Thanks, signed up.

I'd definitely be in.

Just moved to Brisbane to start a startup.

Why did you move to Brisbane to start a startup? Are your potential customer's here?

At the risk of starting a heated discussion, my impression is that Melbourne is the capital with the most blossoming startup culture. (I'm in Bris by the way)

I would wager it's probably Sydney, but then again I don't think any Australian town is the clear winner.

Canberra had a lot of enterprise focussed software startups which didn't get much notice; but I think compared to the US equivalents, alot of Australian companies fly under the radar.

My belief is if you're starting in the Aus rather than the US it doesn't really matter which city you're in as long as it's got a reasonable feeding uni. Having worked and recruited with US and Aus staff I definitely think Australian software engineers are some of the best and typically suitably pragmatic for software startups. (Until they fully roll out the US style of generalist and masters, aka uni melbourne approach, but I guess we'll see)

Yeah I agree with there being no clear winner. I don't know of any area in Australia that has a sufficiently large cluster of startups to create a thriving startup culture.

That's why I'm curious about niko1 coming to Brisbane to start a startup. What's here that isn't elsewhere?

Brisbane developer, into govt research mostly. Involved with humbug (unix/linux), brispy (python), dorkbot (arts/eletronics), the edge (creative/design/tech), hackerspace (engineering/electronics), linux.conf.au and other things most likely :)

cheers,

Sydney!! Hi... looking for an internship/grad position(final year).

* codemoran puts his hand up <codemoran> sydney here.

Hi! I'm a lurker from Bondi. Chasing the dream.

Melbourne. No plans on startups though.

Hello, London (originally Sydney) here.

Melbourne (originally Madrid) here.

Canberra here. (I'm not Julia Gillard, but sometimes on Call of Duty servers I pretend to be).

Hi! Just north of Sydney.I love AbstractServiceLoaderBasedFactoryBean's (aka a Java hacker)

Currently living in Clare but I'm in town often enough to say I'm from Adelaide.

Perth here, contact details in my profile if you want to chat about whatever

London (by way of Brisbane).

Sydney lower north shore. Recharging for another startup.

Melbourne. Student at Monash University. From India.

Hi! Brisbane here

Melbourne here!

Sydney North West. Lisp Hacker. Lurking.

London here.

Brisneyland

Canberra. Rails. Hi.

Hi! Brisbane here.

do expats count? Melbournian living in Scotland.

Melbourne here.

Perth repping.

Melbourne!

melbourne!

Sydney

melbourne

sydney!!

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