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Ask HN: interested in a SF East Bay HN meetup?

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I was wondering if there would be any interest in a HN meetup in the East Bay (Berkeley-Emeryville-Oakland area)

Please upvote and/or comment if you are interested.

Not quite sure where it could take place, but feel free to offer suggestions as well. (I'm thinking more of a happy-hour kind of thing)

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Any one of Berkeley, Emeryville, or Oakland would be great!

In Berkeley there's:

- the new David Bower center (aka The Hub) in downtown

- Caffe Med on Telegraph near campus is pretty spacious

- the 2 story Starbucks on Oxford & Center in downtown

Emeryville is kind of limited:

- Peet's on Bay Street seems roomy

Oakland:

- A'Cuppa Tea on College & Alcatraz is bigger than the average local coffee shop, open late, and has free Wifi

I'd also be happy to put you in touch with someone in Startup @ Berkeley for more help and ideas.

Citizen Engagement Lab (http://engagementlab.org) is in the David Brower Center and may be able to host.

Reply if there's interest..

I live in Oakland, but Cafe Med is nice enough that I won't bother rooting for the home town.

I'd also vote for Philz Coffee towards the north end of Berkeley, I've worked out of there whenever I'm not meeting down @ YC in mountain view. The coffee is fuel for me (other than cheesily being motivated by happy tweets from fanvibe users =)

If it's a late night gathering, I love going to the Pub in Albany/North Berkeley. Awesome atmosphere, awesome belgian beers. Pretty cool people there too. it's well lit, no music, so it's easy to talk and hang out in.

The Pub is great, North Oakland here.

The Hackers and Founders SF meetups are right across the bridge on Pier 38 in Dog Patch labs. Our next one is the 29th: http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders/calendar/13712630...

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Dogpatch is an awesome space. I've worked out of there for awhile now, even did a code competition there last year for the RailsRumble.

The Hackers and Founders meetup is fun. I went to the first one that happened at DPL. The keg is a nice touch to the DPL events.

The Trappist in downtown Oakland is a great spot. Its about 4 blocks from the 12 street BART.

http://www.thetrappist.com/

We could meet up tonight. A bunch of East Bay redditors are getting together tonight at Jupiter in Downtown Berkeley, right next to the BART stop. Some people will be getting there around 8:30pm and people will be trickling in all night. I'll be the nerdy looking 24 year old bearded Indian kid. Email me if you want my phone number.

There's also an AVC meetup tomorrow in Berkeley. http://www.meetup.com/AVC/11501/

Right now it seems I'm the only person besides the creator signed up for the AVC meetup http://www.meetup.com/AVC/11502/.

Looks like a dupe. Yours ends in 11502, but 11501 has a few signups.

Weird, those pages looked really different before... I think.

I made a Google Group to coordinate http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news

Thanks!

It'd be a good thing for people to join this group, if anything so that we don't need to pollute HN with threads about this. (and future events)

Once something is decided we can just post a Tell HN about it.

I'm interested. Berkeley / North Oakland preferred, but anywhere nearby would be fine.

Sounds good. Anywhere in the East Bay is fine but Oakland or Berkeley would be ideal.

Berkeley / Albany / El Cerrito

randall you live in the area too? commute to sf daily?

Yeah, I work @ justin.tv

Awesome, I've yet to meet any of the Justin.tv guys in person.

Looks like we have a time setup for Wednesday @ 7:30pm - check http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news for more details...

Berkeley.

The new philz on shattuck and cedar is also nice

I'm there now! Email me if you want to meet up. </old_school_loopt>

I've been going to Philz a few times a week when I'm not down in Mountain View =) It's a really cool spot, park on lincoln during the week for 2 hours of free parking. Open till 9pm too, and good amount of space in the back.

Also, wonder if we could talk to the owners about "reserving" that back area where there's couches. Depending on the size of the group, might be doable without reservation.

I'm a member of Berkeley Coworking, at Ashby & Shattuck. It's a good place for meetings. There'd be no need to buy coffee, but cafes nearby if you wanted to.

I'll be living in Berkeley starting in August. I'm up for meeting anywhere, but don't delay the meetup on my account.

tomorrow (Sat, 10:30AM) i'll be at Eastbay ruby meetup at UC-B:

http://www.meetup.com/EBRuby/calendar/13618932/?a=nr1p_grp&#...

I would definitely like to join. What about some night next week?

Albany, for the win.

Ever goto the Pub on Solano? Not sure if that's still Albany though, but I consider it Albany since I can walk to it from my house ;)

YES. I just recently graduated from AHS. Albany is great.

congratz! i also graduated from AHS, but back in 2001 =X I'm old.

I'm in San Ramon.

Berkeley here, up for a meetup in the area

Oakland here

Berkeley! This sounds great.

Berkeley.

Danville

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