London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March

#1

Post by dmitri1981 » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 8:32 AM UTC

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

#2

Post by Peroni » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 9:12 AM UTC

If 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.

Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March

#3

Post by ig1 » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 9:17 AM UTC

With the inevitable clashing, it clashes with Josh's Biz Dev for Early Stage Enterprise Startups event:

http://www.meetup.com/unsexystartups/events/109255182/

Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March

#4

Post by Peroni » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 9:42 AM UTC

ig1 wrote: post #3

With the inevitable clashing, it clashes with Josh's Biz Dev for Early Stage Enterprise Startups event: http://www.meetup.com/unsexystartups/events/109255182/

It's literally impossible to arrange a tech meetup in London without it clashing with another event.

Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March

#5

Post by dutchbrit » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 9:44 AM UTC

Looking forward to see a HN meetup in The Netherlands, does anyone have any plans? I'd be willing to help organise.

Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March

#6

Post by 42tree » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 9:47 AM UTC

Looking forward to see a HN meetup in Shanghai, China. Does anyone have any plans? I'd be willing to help organize.

Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March

#7

Post by xedarius » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 9:51 AM UTC

I'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 think worked well. However ultimately people need time to develop and evolve a conversation.

My suggestion would be to cut one of the talks in the second half and let the mid-session break stretch on for 30 minutes .

Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March

#8

Post by babuskov » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 9:54 AM UTC

What a coincidence, I'm travelling to London this Sunday. I was hoping to go to node.js group meetup the same evening, but this seems much more interesting. See you there.

edit: Is there some way to pay via credit card or wire transfer, as PayPal is not available in my country?

Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March

#9

Post by polymatter » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 9:55 AM UTC

Peroni wrote: post #2

If 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.

I second xedarius's suggestion above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399845) to have more 'meetup' time.

Re: London Hacker News meetup will be on Wednesday, 27th March

#10

Post by Peroni » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 9:56 AM UTC

xedarius wrote: post #7

I'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…

The break this month is scheduled for 20 minutes but I have been keen to extend it. I'll have a chat with Dmitri and I'll see what we can do.