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HN London Meetup this Thursday

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The third Hacker News London meetup shall be this Thursday from 18:00 at our usual venue The Waterpoet, 9-11 Folgate St, London E1 6BX.

Geomium, the next-gen geosocial application, as recently featured in The Next Web http://su.pr/2YVHpt will be sponsoring the event. Ben Dowling, CTO/Co-founder of Geomium and HN London co-organiser, will be giving a short presentation introducing Geomium and then will let everyone have a play. If you would like to request a beta invite in advance you can request one at http://geomium.com or email Ben [@] geomium [dot] com. For an early preview of the Geomium iPhone app include you UDID and device name in the email.

We look forward to seeing everyone there. Please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/

PS we will be in the back bar as usual. If you are having difficulty finding us please call me on 0789 11 99 440 or tweet @dmitrigrabov

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This was kind of fun the last time I went but I feel that putting it on Meetup may have been a mistake/premature.

About half the people I met hadn't even heard of HN, let alone read/comment on stories here.

Maybe I was just hanging out in the wrong part of the room. :)

Edit to add: Those people were definitely there for the HN meetup. They'd been notified via Meetup of a new group and decided to turn up.

It definitely sounds like you were in the wrong part of the room :)

A problem people have mentioned before is actually finding all of the HNers amongst the other drinkers, so you're not alone. Because of this we started looking for an alternative venue but we couldn't find anything suitable in time.

If you've got any suggestions it'd be great if you could let us know, either here or via the Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/hn-london/browse_thread/threa...

For the event this Thursday we'll put up a sign, which should at least help you find the right area of the bar.

How about bringing some stickers for people to write their name / HN username on for easy recognition?

Nah we should do it like proper spies. "Are you a friend of PG?".

Haha, I remember overhearing some suits asking each other "Who the f is Paul Graham?". I dont think they ever got it.

That seems like an excellent idea.

Your wonderful event sponsor Geomium has splurged on their startup anti-budget and bought name tags for the event. Now we can try not to frighten others at the bar.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there...

Now that we've got a regular number of people turning up we could could probably book a room somewhere, there's quite a few places that will give you a free booking if you'll have more than x many people turning up. Especially if we did the meetup earlier in the week when pubs are quieter.

The downstairs area of the Fine Line near St Paul's is pretty good, but I'm sure there's plenty of other bars that offer a similar space.

Linked versions of the URLs:

http://su.pr/2YVHpt http://geomium.com http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/

The last couple of meetups have been great. Hope to see you there!

Hi - I'm pretty new to hacking'n'stuff. Would I be welcome/understand what the hell was going on? :)

All HN readers are more than welcome! It's a fairly informal event. People drink beer, and chat about things they're interested in, which tend to be the projects their working on, programming, tech, startups etc.

Bleh, once again I'll miss you guys by a day.

Any thoughts on doing it one weekend in the future? :D

Any demand for a meetup in Manchester?

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