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Melbourne Hackernews Meetup, Wed 3 Nov

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A few of us are catching up to shoot the breeze arising from this HN Offer

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1837408

Where: Match Bar and Grill, 279 Little Lonsdale St, corner of Swanston, Melbourne

When: 3 November, 5:30pm onwards

It's short notice, but hope to see you there. Should be a great chance to meet like-minded people and get feedback on ideas and startups. I'm on 0433 507 750 if you need to track us down.

Please upvote to bring this to people's attention. [edit: thanks guys, hitting the front page should be sufficient]

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People interested in Hacker News (and based in Melbourne) may also be interested in some of these upcoming events and meetups...

http://thehive.org.au/ Monthly networking for entrepreneurs, with a guest speaker who talks about their startup. The podcast from the session with Steve Sammartino from Rentoid.com has some interesting anecdotes on how he publicised his startup.

http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/ Fortnightly meetups to discuss tech startup ideas (the Melbourne website is broken, so I am not sure if this is still happening).

http://www.tedxmelbourne.com/ (November 20th) TEDxMelbourne is an independently organised TED-like event under license from TED.com

http://www.ruxcon.org.au/ (November 20th, and 21st) Ruxcon is the premier technical security conference in Australia. Like Defcon, but held in Australia.

http://groups.google.com/group/mclbb (first Tuesday of the month. Next one is on November 9th due to the Cup Day public holiday) Interesting technical talks held at lunchtime in. The next ones are on Hadoop and Python games.

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/440359/ Melbourne Association of Software Testers (last Wednesday of the month) Monthly meetup at Beer DeLuxe to talk about software testing and related topics (and drink beer). Some Agile testing enthusiasts guaranteed to be at each meeting.

http://trampolineday.com/ (next one is expected to be sometime around March 2011) Trampoline is a self-organising un-conference for those who find the world interesting, have something to offer and share, and have an inquisitive mind.

Hopefully this comment is not too off-topic for Melbourne-based readers. I have already met several of the commenters from this HN story at some of these events. If you have any more, please post them in a reply to this comment.

Also you could sign up for Melbourne's Startup Digest fortnightly enewsletter - it does the curation for you... http://startupdigest.com/

Silicon Beach Melbourne has pretty much died in the arse.

There are also many user groups worth attending depending on your skills/interest.

Can I also suggest that we all wear white t-shirt or something that we can easily identify each other rather than blindly walk up to anyone in the bar IMO?

The last meetup in Feb was great. FYI – there's a bit of a community around the @ycmelb Twitter account - http://twitter.com/ycmelb

Thanks for the tip. Do you think someone with access to @ycmelb could tweet a link to this?

Not sure who holds the account password - it might be @nedwin. I actually work at the Melbourne-based YC startup Adioso.com. The cofounders Tom and Fenn led the last one a bit.

These threads are worth viewing for info on previous meetups:

February 2010 – http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1091571

October 2009 – http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=849668

I met nedwin and kiwidrew at the last one I think. There must have been at least 30 people. I'll look him up. Thanks again.

Is there a similar thing for Sydney?

I'm wondering the same. I'm fairly new to Sydney and live on the north shore.

I am also in Sydney atm.

If anybody else is Sydney side and would be interested in a meetup, reply here, or upvote, the parent, or something.

Add me to the list of curious.

ditto

same here (Manly)

I'm not from Sydney, but I know they have the Silicon-Beach Drinks meetup every week.

http://groups.google.com.au/group/silicon-beach-australia/br...

http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Beach/

I'm in, it would be great to meet all the talents out there in Melbourne. :)

Brisbane might be a little too far to drive :)

What time do you folks intend to stay till? There is an Android meetup going on at the same time and I am in a dilemma

Yup, I'm heading there as well http://ausdroid.net/2010/10/01/android-australia-pro-am-get-...

Guess we'll just see how it goes. What time is the android thing finishing up?

I don't know. It starts at 6pm. I'll probably stay there till 7.15pm and head towards Match Bar and Grill and should be there before 7.30pm, or skip the Android altogether

I'm guessing it'll end by 7.30 - will head over to Match after.

I'll set up a meeting in Alice Springs, All Welcome

Bojangles at 5PM Sunday

Would love to have a google calendar or similar for this kind of thing so that they can go in my schedule automatically and not have to rely on me happening to read Hacker News at the right moment!

Gotta get out of Perth :/

Amen... I think there are about 4 of us on here!

Yep, probably. Moving in Melbourne in January though.

moved here a year ago! woop woop

sup 'friend'

Looking forward to it!

ouch.. Overlaps exactly with Googles Android promo event - http://groups.google.com/group/android-australia

I'm in.

... and I'm back out again. I have a day job contracting and a side project, & it's looking like I'm not going to be finished until _late_ tonight.

If I'm in town I'll be there for sure!

+1, all going well.

I am so in!

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