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I'll go Monday. I'm not a huge fan of Hop Haus, but it is very easy to get people together there; on a Monday night, the dining room will be pretty much empty.

(We do ChiSec every month at Hop Haus).

Hopleaf is D.O.A. for a meetup. It's a madhouse every single night of the week.

I'd love to convince you all to meet at Violet Hour, but I'm thinking $11 cocktails don't match the Chicago startup ethos.

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Violet Hour would be awesome but I don't think they'd be thrilled to have a bunch of guys in ironic t-shirts ruining their ambiance. :)

They don't care; I've asked them about it. The only issue is space and expense.

Violet Hour would be cool, except that we're trying to keep it close to the loop so that it is easiest for everyone to get there.

Check the thread later, I don't think the monday time is settled yet.

Well, figure out a date and let us know here; I'm not sure why Google Groups is a better place to organize a meetup than right here, though.

My advice, after doing ~30 ChiSec meetups averaging ~30 people in the last year and a half, is just to pick something, get people together in a room, and then if the date isn't perfect you can move it next meetup.

Agree about the google groups thing. Someone should just register a twitter account for HNchi or YCchi like the Melbourne guys did: http://twitter.com/ycmelb

violet hour afterwards?

If there's an afterwards, you're doing the meetup wrong :)

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