Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #14 – 1st of June 2012

Looking forward to meeting Ruriko for the first time! See you next week mate

Oh yeah - sorry mate. I was looking into doing one of these, but I've been so busy that I hadn't gotten to it yet.

Lets pick a date then.

Would say, Friday the 6th of July work? I'll see if I can organise the space.

An Osaka meetup would be great!

Here are a few email comments I received after an old event.

And also a broken photo. Better put that in my list of things to look at:

http://www.webnet-it.co.jp/blog/2010/04/10/report-on-hacker-...

Nice mix of folks with interest in the tech industry, from programmers at banks to Tokyo startup founders to lawyers/accountants/etc. Probably 60% or so are technical. Very friendly folks, made some good friends there. Format is low-key mixer followed by drinks. Has been very useful professionally - met two clients there, got good advice, etc. Hope I have likewise helped folks. Wish more Japanese folks made it out.

I have been there the last few times and I was never disappointed! There were roughly about 30 people I would guess, working on very different things (arduino hackers, lawyers, web devs, firmware programmers, people who just enjoy reading HN etc.). The majority foreigners and most Japanese people who attended spoke a decent amount of English. However, at the last meeting (or the one before) it was maybe around 50/50 foreigners/japanese...

The atmosphere was very relaxed and "open", so you got to talk to everybody who you wanted to, which made for some really interesting discussions.

Afterwards, I'd say about half the people or more headed out to the "Tap room", a nice bar with all sorts of beer. If you're in Tokyo and have never attended before, I'd give it a go.

I have been there the past several times (and will be attending this one as well). I have been able to do some like-minded people and I have done some networking. Mostly, though, it was just a fun social time talking about all sorts of various technical stuff. I would definitely recommend coming out if you have the time.

Yes, after I registered, I did some search, and start to feel anxious because no comments found anywhere......until I saw this one:)

I went a few times and had a great time at each occasion. Jason and Paul are great hosts, and there has always been q quite diverse crowd (not just e.g. entrepreneurs or hard core hackers).