is this a monthly event? i will not be able to attend this one but would love to attend the next.
Indeed it is. Usually the last Wednesday or Thursday of the month.
London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March
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Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March
#22If there are any previous attendees monitoring this, we'd be happy to hear any feedback or suggestions on what you think we can do to improve the event.
Pretty minor, but it tends to get quite stuffy by the time the final speakers are on - if it's possible to open some windows then that'd be good.
Valid point. I'll make sure there is plenty of ventilation.
Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March
#23My team (TfL Online) has a hackathon coming up soon based on our new API, it would be good to hear how we can get that out there for the attendees to be aware of?. (I'm sure you are pretty jam packed on the schedule this time round though)
Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March
#24If there are any previous attendees monitoring this, we'd be happy to hear any feedback or suggestions on what you think we can do to improve the event.
Leave some pizza for the brake it gets devoured so quickly ;)
Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March
#25Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March
#26My team (TfL Online) has a hackathon coming up soon based on our new API, it would be good to hear how we can get that out there for the attendees to be aware of?. (I'm sure you are pretty jam packed on the schedule this time round though)
Drop me an email. Info in my profile.
Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March
#27My team (TfL Online) has a hackathon coming up soon based on our new API, it would be good to hear how we can get that out there for the attendees to be aware of?. (I'm sure you are pretty jam packed on the schedule this time round though)
I have to say you've done a fantastic job with the Tfl API. Any chance you could put up a link to the hackathon here? Or at least give us a few more details?
Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March
#28My team (TfL Online) has a hackathon coming up soon based on our new API, it would be good to hear how we can get that out there for the attendees to be aware of?. (I'm sure you are pretty jam packed on the schedule this time round though)
I have to say you've done a fantastic job with the Tfl API. Any chance you could put up a link to the hackathon here? Or at least give us a few more details?
We're just in the process of nailing down the venue, but aiming for the end of May / start of June (essentially once we've managed to do some more testing and integrate some new data sources).
Without giving too much away (I'll get shot by the press team!), its a single API covering all modes of travel in London and surrounding areas, mostly for the first time, think fares, enhanced accessibility options, geodata etc.
Drop me a mail and I'll get you on the invite list if your interested.
Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March
#29I've noticed that once the wheels of conversation have been greased (via beer and a few presentations), during the interval people really seem to mingle and chat. To my mind this is the golden 10-15 minutes of the hacker news meetup. Here's the rub, there's usually only a 10-15 minute break. I'd argue that these conversation are largely the point of the whole meetup. Dmitris' introduction quiz was a good idea, and I…
also, an after-event pub announced before and in between the talks so that people can hang out later on.
Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March
#30I've noticed that once the wheels of conversation have been greased (via beer and a few presentations), during the interval people really seem to mingle and chat. To my mind this is the golden 10-15 minutes of the hacker news meetup. Here's the rub, there's usually only a 10-15 minute break. I'd argue that these conversation are largely the point of the whole meetup. Dmitris' introduction quiz was a good idea, and I…
I completely agree.
I normally skip many of the presentations in order to talk with people outside.
The whole point on these events for me is to find good hackers or business guys to work with, I can sit coding or watching biz/tech presentations the other nights in the week. :)