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Hacker News London meetup on 29th Sep with Harj

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I've been to a few of these now, even spoke at the last one, and it's an event each month that I really look forward to.

If you're close enough to London to make it home afterwards, then do what you can and make the effort to be there - well worthwhile.

Typical. The first HN Londeon meet-up in 5 months that I can't attend and you go and get a bigger venue and bag a YC Partner to give a talk.

Yeah, I would really love to go too, but I just went up to university in Scotland.

> I was wondering if any of you fancied volunteering to help out. In particular we are looking for 2-3 people to help out with name badges and the beer run.

I'd be more than happy to help—my email's in my profile. Let me know what needs doing and when. (I haven't got anything to record with though.)

thanks. a small army has already been recruited.

Do you have to get tickets or anything? Do I just turn up like a normal internet site meetup?

I could help with a beer run if I get there earlier. I may suck at startups but I'm pretty practised at obtaining alcohol :)

Sign up on meetup to help us track numbers. Otherwise just turn up. Thanks for the offer of help, think we just need a video person now.

That's cool :) Have done! Sounds like it could be interesting. Currently I'm starting out freelancing as a Web Developer so I'm sucking up any knowledge I can get my hands on (I'd like to expand and build it into a proper business).

Can you please insert the event details here to the thread, too? I believe I'm not the only one who can't access meetup.com due to company blocking the site.

Thursday, September 29, 2011, 6:30 PM

Central Foundation Boys School

Cowper Street, London (map) Entrance through the blue doors on Cowper St, opposite XOYO.

I am very excited to announce the next Hacker News London meetup. After months of searching we have finally secured a new, large venue that will be able to accommodate all those who wish to come along, right next to the Old St roundabout.

However, the highlight of the evening is that Harj Taggar, YC partner and founder of Auctomatic, will be our headline speaker. In addition Harj will also hold a Q&A session, so please send us your questions or bring them along that evening. If you are looking to apply to YC or find out more about it, this is the perfect opportunity.

We should have a hackathon at one of these.

That would be awesome. Somehow I've yet to attend a proper hackday but it seems like it would be a great experience.

http://charityhack.org/ is happening this weekend if you want to go to one

This looks great. What is the format like? Should I be concerned about being a loner if I come by myself?

We'll start out with a few beers and pizzas, then do some talks and presentations followed by more beers. The crowd is really friendly and you'll meet lots of great new people.

I went as a loner as it was fine. The people are friendly and there are other loners around who will talk to you if you stand around when the talks aren't on.

Is there an IRC channel or something similar we can talk about the meetup in?

Mike Mahemoff set this up a while back, though it prob needs some more promoting to get it going.

https://convore.com/hnlondon/

There's lots of HNers in #startups on freenode

Ah thanks, I'll definitely check it out!

Bummer. A Hacker News meetup in London and I'm going to be in Mountain View.

We've been doing them for over a year and I was really surprised you have not come along yet.

Somehow I managed to miss the fact that they were happening. Where should I be signing up for notification?

EDIT: OK, I'm now following your Twitter feed. Silly me.

LOL I'm here in London for two weeks from Mountain View.

When Hacker News holds an event, schedules need to make way!

Is there a reason you chose not to do it in a pub?

We usually end up in the pub after the talks.

I know, I went a while back. It seems to me like holding it in a school and making beer runs seems counterproductive.

Most of the other regular london hackery type talk events (Hacks/Hackers, DC4420 spring to mind) take place in pubs.

Just curious, that's all.

Decent pubs get very crowded and noisy, plus it's difficult to fit many people in. A hall gives us the opportunity to do more techy presentations.

We actually started out in a pub and have evolved into present format over time. We have the hall until 10, so if you are really hardcore you can always head to the pub after, I can imagine there will be quite a few people joining you.

Out of interest, have you been to DC4420? (http://www.dc4420.org/)

It has none of the problems you describe, but it's definitely worth a visit regardless.

Nope. Probably a Tuesday vs Thursday thing.

Plus it's cheaper to buy beer buy the crate ;)

Maybe, but cost isn't everything and draught ale is better than canned ale.

Hopefully a cheap one? :) Seeing as some of us will be paying travel to get there.

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