Ask HN: Creating a "Hackers Society"

[abless]

Hi,

I am thinking of creating a new society at my college. I'd like to bring together some hackers; the idea is to be able to meet like-minded people. Typically, societies meet up once or twice a week.

My question: any ideas on what could be done during such a meeting (typically 1-2 hours)? Some possible things include:

- short (10min) lectures on interesting stuff

- programming competitions

- forming up into teams to work on individual projects

- ...

However, this is all still very rough. If you guys have any better/more concrete ideas, I'd be very glad to hear them!

[mechanical_fish]

Yep, that's a good idea with a long tradition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp

Go for it.