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If you're in Scotland, you already know it exists and would automatically be looking locally. I see the London meetup as "poaching" people to come to Scotland.

I'm moving to work in Scotland myself very soon. I've got a weird range of reactions from people here in the south of England; people are sort of suprised to learn that Scotland has electricity let alone a tech industry.

The most effective recruiting strategy would be to ask people what they're currently paying to live in London and how tiny a flat it is, then show them the corresponding 3 bedroom house / Georgian townhouse they could get for the same money.

Replied to a node above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7415728), but you can usually find out who's hiring by just turning up to the monthly Tech Meetup[0] - it's pretty active here in Edinburgh.

[0]: http://techmeetup.co.uk/

There was a Tech Jobs Scotland event in Edinburgh back in August 2013: http://turingfestival.com/tech-jobs-scotland.

I think they're running it to show London talent that there's a life outside the big city, and see how many they can poach.