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Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #15 – Thursday 12th of July 2012

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I'm excited for this one! We've managed to secure a very nice space overlooking Shibuya(thanks to GMO), with plenty more capacity so you can spread out, sit down, and enjoy good conversations.

As always, we're trying to keep the event focused on HN readers and business/technology enthusiasts, designers, coders, entrepreneurs and investors, so if you'd like to come along and bring your friends who fit into these categories, we have plenty of space.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

For those of us who have never been, what is it? "Just drop in and talk to people" or are there any presentations or organised discussions / talks / whatever.

Definitely more the former. Just walk up to anyone and introduce yourself. Enjoy the good beer and food while talking with interesting people. I go any time I am able and see it as a social event more than anything.

I'm assuming that this time although a different venue the plan is the same.

As ranebo said, it is more of a social event focused on meeting other people in the tech community. My cofounder Jason and I met though Hacker News here in Tokyo so we figured there would be other people who would want to meet up.

We keep it fairly unstructured so that the community can mix and discuss what is important to them. It's a great place to get feedback on a project, find other people to work with, ask questions, and share experiences. If you don't know anyone, just ask around for me (Paul) and introduce yourself.

Sadly, I'll be out of the country. I have gone once last year and I can highly recommend the event. I am in academia and I did find the conversations very interesting. It was nice to get out of my little box and see the world, my own work and the work of others from a different view.

tl;dr; Nice+++++, would go again!

Thanks for coming along! Always nice to get good feedback.

How come these meetups are always set during the week ? I live in Beijing, and I would love to attend, but work and the timing of the meetup makes it impossible for me to join.

Wouldn't it be easier for everyone if these were in the weekends ?

Easier for some people, harder for other people.

It's hard to please everyone when you organise an event.

We are looking to mix it up with more events both on weekends and weekdays, so stay tuned.

I see. We people in Kansai just get no group hug, eh! Sniff

Well, why not organize one over there? It doesn't have to start a big, just find 2 other HNers who can meet on a Friday night, set the location and then announce it on your blog/HN/meetup.com.

I'm in Kansai too. We just need to find a few members to make a core team around here :)

Oh well, someone's got to get the ball rolling then, so I guess I'll do just that.

If there are any HNers reading this in KANSAI feel free to drop me a line or if anyone else has heard of any other people down here do let me know.

* update * There! I think I just found one here! :)

Captaintacos, anyway to reach you by email ?

There, just updated my profile (I thought the email that was in my profile was automatically displayed to everyone): alcantaranet@gmail.com

We've had a few requests in the past for throwing a similar event in Osaka. We've considered doing it but haven't gotten any solid momentum.

The meetup we throw in Tokyo is pretty big so it's a fair amount of work to organize. Shoot me an email (you can use the one in my profile) and we'll get something arranged. I would love to come down for a meetup with you guys.

Excellent! I'll send you an email then and let's see what we can do for Kansai.

Sorry guys - we've almost organised events in Kansai a couple of times, but it's a bit difficult for us right now. We're flat out with MakeLeaps stuff and the HN Tokyo events.

If you do end up doing one though, we're happy to send out a notice to everyone, and also happy to come over and have a drink and support you.

There will be some Gengo people there for sure :)

Congrats on the rebranding and tell Gareth to get back to work.

Is there a deadline to prepay? Two maybes here, depending on work.

No, but it's very helpful for preparation and organisation if you can confirm as soon as you can.

Thanks!

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