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HN London Meetup this Thursday

38 points| dmitri1981 | 15 years ago | reply

The third Hacker News London meetup shall be this Thursday from 18:00 at our usual venue The Waterpoet, 9-11 Folgate St, London E1 6BX.

Geomium, the next-gen geosocial application, as recently featured in The Next Web http://su.pr/2YVHpt will be sponsoring the event. Ben Dowling, CTO/Co-founder of Geomium and HN London co-organiser, will be giving a short presentation introducing Geomium and then will let everyone have a play. If you would like to request a beta invite in advance you can request one at http://geomium.com or email Ben [@] geomium [dot] com. For an early preview of the Geomium iPhone app include you UDID and device name in the email.

We look forward to seeing everyone there. Please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/

PS we will be in the back bar as usual. If you are having difficulty finding us please call me on 0789 11 99 440 or tweet @dmitrigrabov

13 comments

[+] amirmc|15 years ago|reply

This was kind of fun the last time I went but I feel that putting it on Meetup may have been a mistake/premature.

About half the people I met hadn't even heard of HN, let alone read/comment on stories here.

Maybe I was just hanging out in the wrong part of the room. :)

Edit to add: Those people were definitely there for the HN meetup. They'd been notified via Meetup of a new group and decided to turn up.

[+] coderholic|15 years ago|reply

It definitely sounds like you were in the wrong part of the room :)

A problem people have mentioned before is actually finding all of the HNers amongst the other drinkers, so you're not alone. Because of this we started looking for an alternative venue but we couldn't find anything suitable in time.

If you've got any suggestions it'd be great if you could let us know, either here or via the Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/hn-london/browse_thread/threa...

For the event this Thursday we'll put up a sign, which should at least help you find the right area of the bar.

[+] coderholic|15 years ago|reply

Linked versions of the URLs:

http://su.pr/2YVHpt http://geomium.com http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/

The last couple of meetups have been great. Hope to see you there!

[+] wihon|15 years ago|reply

Hi - I'm pretty new to hacking'n'stuff. Would I be welcome/understand what the hell was going on? :)

[+] coderholic|15 years ago|reply

All HN readers are more than welcome! It's a fairly informal event. People drink beer, and chat about things they're interested in, which tend to be the projects their working on, programming, tech, startups etc.