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I'm starting a list of HN Related Meetups + locations, please add or edit

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PG: as a first category for Hacker News, I suggest meetups.

It's been a while since there has been a Pittsburgh Hacker News meetup. Anyone from Pittsburgh reading this that may be potentially interested in a meetup should comment here or email me.

In the past we've had them at the Church Brew Works in Lawrenceville, but I would be very open to suggestions for another place in Pittsburgh that can seat a large group, is reasonably quiet, and serves alcohol.

I'm interested. Any time after July 4. I understand that Buca di Beppo at Station Square has a banquet room for groups of 15 or more. Also Del's in Bloomfield. We'd have to do a little more planning than usual - a reservation and a guaranteed count, but we should be able to do that. Maybe even bring our laptops and stay for a while.

http://www.bucadibeppo.com/banquets/

If the timing is right, I'm in. I do my best to make it to meets (Refresh Pittsburgh, Dorkbot Pittsburgh, Devhouse Pittsburgh) but it's been a loooong time since I've actually made it to one. Never been to a HN-specific one, either.

If any of you want to set up a mailing list, my email is in my profile. Add me. :)

I created a Meetup for Hacker News: http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News/

I didn't see any Los Angeles meetups in there, so I added one, if anyone's interested, leave a comment here:

http://blog.andrewvc.com/los-angeles-hacker-news

A few people have tried before, but it's not panned out as far as I know. I'm interested.

Also, if anyone is interested in using the "Hackers and Founders" name, you're more than welcome to. The Indianapolis and NY groups are using it as well as the logo I made: http://iamelgringo.storage.s3.amazonaws.com/HackersAndFounde...

If you're thinking of starting a meetup, we'd love to help in whatever ways we can. We also like to keep in touch. Feel free to email me: jonathan@newsley.com or my co-organizer, Laura@Newsley.com.

There doesn't seem to be an existing London meetup, so I've created this google group to try and organise one: http://groups.google.com/group/hn-london

If you do know of an existing one please comment or update the spreadsheet.

Hey, since there's no active Hacker News group in Boston, I'm starting Hackers and Founders Boston - http://hfboston.markbao.com/. Join the Google Group and we can get it rolling.

for a Paris meetup, please send comments here: http://hnparis.posterous.com/19209518

Any group meeting in the bay area between the 5th and the 10th? I'm going to be there and I'll love to meet as many people as possible

Hey I would like to start a meeting, but I am not quite sure what it would entail, is there any good common guide for a agenda?

The last one in Tokyo went exceptionally well with "Show up, mingle, we'll do a round of self introductions, mingle while eating, mingle while at bar"

Jason and I are getting ready send out an announcement for another one. I suppose we should add it into the list. Don't suppose we can convince you to trek back to Tokyo again can we Patrick? :-)

Heck yes! If it is before the 25th of June, I'm totally there. (Flying back for a month with family afterwards.)

Count me in; I was on a plane during the last one. Just make it before Obon, please. :)

Hackers and Founders SV has been doing the "Hang out at a bar" thing for 2 years. H&F meets at a park and mingles when the weather is nice. Occasionally they do lightning talks and demos.

Things that have helped us as the group grows have been name tags, signs that tell people where in the bar we're meeting, and pads of paper an pends for people to write notes down, exchange emails, etc...

I've been meaning to write up a "how we do it" or a wiki for some time. I need to get on that.

I'd love to do something in the Amsterdam area.

what happened to that Utrecht meetup a few months ago? Did it happen?

I remember reading that there were regular meetups (for something else) at a co-working place in Utrecht, and someone suggested incorporating a HN meetup into that. I never followed up, however.

That was me.

I was referring to Open Coffee on wednesday mornings. They are usually in the iGluu (Jansdam) or around the corner in the Brandmeesters. http://opencoffeeutrecht.nl/

There was also this: http://bluwiki.com/go/Hackersnl

I couldn't make it that day and never heard if it was interesting, if people did show up etc.

We have a Hackers & Founders / Open Coffee Club going in the RTP, NC area now as well:

http://www.meetup.com/RTP-Hackers-Founders/

Any groups in Vancouver? I am moving there on the 1st of June.

The Philly-area Hackathons started as HN meetups: http://www.groupomatic.com/haqsm3vj

I just added a link back to this discussion.

Anyone in Dallas interested in a HN group?

I'm interested...

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