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toivo 1 days ago [-]
Would be interesting to join but have to get bit more karma :)
darkwater 1 days ago [-]
I think you will have enough after your message ;)
olegp 1 days ago [-]
We're not too strict about that, please join!
patricjansson 1 days ago [-]
Mission accomplished Toivo
karma: 84
eric_khun 1 days ago [-]
let me help
71153750 1 days ago [-]
I’m a student at Hive here in Helsinki and would love to attend. Lurking on HN for years but not nearly enough Karma. I’ve bookmarked the form for later however I’ll try my luck anyway with the form now. Very cool to know there is an HN meet up here!
71153750 1 days ago [-]
Thank you HN for the karma on the above comment, I've since kindly been added to the group. No more helpful get 71153750 into the meetup karma needed. I will endeavour to comment more and post to earn it!
calpaterson 1 days ago [-]
You were added :) See you in person
sqbic 1 days ago [-]
Nice one! As a seasoned industry veteran, I've been wanting to have something like this, and while there are many evening tech meetups going on around here, your schedule is much more suitable for the otherwise busy life! *starts karma mining to qualify*
Filled the form and included my email with the HN user ID just in case you'd be willing to deliver the meeting details that way when they've been decided.
The phone number is not associated with WhatsApp (never had it, and won't), but it works with Signal in case it would be more viable option for meetup info comms than email. Who knows, perhaps even a shadow group already exists there, or has potential to get established?
Thank you for arranging such gatherings, hoping to meet up soon!
stevekemp 1 days ago [-]
I guess it's the luck of the draw, but unfortunately Sunday's are no good for me. The curse of parenting :)
But it's still a great idea, and I wish you all happy meetups. Would be nice if this inspired other groups to form too.
calpaterson 1 days ago [-]
We also meet in the evenings sometimes, so I would join now and figure it out later.
calpaterson 1 days ago [-]
We've been organising this for a while (a year? more?). It's quite relaxed - just a coffee morning every month or two.
I'm sure there are other HN local meetups who could post in this thread - please do if you have a local meetup
weli 1 days ago [-]
Please! Would love HN meetup in Berlin.
Towaway69 1 days ago [-]
I've put my email in my profile, if you want to join the email thread, then send me an email :+1:
If anyone else wants to join the email thread for a Berlin HN meetup, ping me an email - no google nor whatsapp required ;)
earthnail 1 days ago [-]
+1 for Berlin. Moving there in two weeks. Pls email me; my email is in my profile (your profile doesn’t show an email at the time of writing).
Towaway69 1 days ago [-]
Just sent out an email thread to those that have emails in Berlin!
kamyarg 1 days ago [-]
Interested in Berlin also.
Happy to help co-organize also.
Email in profile.
bossyTeacher 1 days ago [-]
Make it happen, don't wait for someone else to do the work on your behalf :)
rrr_oh_man 1 days ago [-]
Excellent initiative, Cal! Thanks for organising
calpaterson 8 hours ago [-]
Most welcome
suslik 1 days ago [-]
Would love to join something like this in Brussels
techsystems 1 days ago [-]
Anyone Eindhoven?
skrebbel 1 days ago [-]
I’d be interested! My email is in my HN profile, let’s set something up!
Like, worst case scenario we just start with the two of us.
enricozb 1 days ago [-]
Replying in case anyone is in Amsterdam :)
artisinal 1 days ago [-]
Would love to organise a meet in Ineleț
svlasov 1 days ago [-]
Too bad this requires using WhatsUp.
olegp 1 days ago [-]
WhatsApp isn't really required. If you submit the form, we will email about about the date and location of the next event.
slerb 1 days ago [-]
I'd love to join, sadly I'm mainly lurking around here so I don't have the required karma.
notpushkin 1 days ago [-]
Tell a bit more about yourself and maybe somebody would invite you as a +1?
punnerud 1 days ago [-]
What a great idea! Anyone that want to join up in Oslo / Norway?
I can use the work office, have more then enough coffee, tea etc. with space to around 150 people.
Unfortunately it's a little far to go for coffee from Tromsø.
deanc 1 days ago [-]
Hi. Long-term HN user based in Helsinki. I'd join but don't really want to share my phone number with a large group of people. Can you not find another way to co-ordinate?
asimovDev 1 days ago [-]
There should be an email sent out whenever a meet is organized. WhatsApp group is mostly for choosing the most suitable date and a place , it’s not mandatory for participation
stevekemp 1 days ago [-]
Things might change in the future, it seems that WhatsApp is gonna start offering usernames, I saw the notice on my app a few weeks back.
That would allow using it with strangers, without sharing a number, in the future.
stronglikedan 1 days ago [-]
You don't have a throwaway Google Voice number? I use one for dating apps. Very convenient and worry free.
embedding-shape 1 days ago [-]
Someone correct me if I'm wrong (I've never used it myself), but Google Voice doesn't seem to be available in Finland at all so probably not?
> Google Voice is a telephone service that provides a U.S. telephone number to Google Account customers in the U.S. and Google Workspace customers in Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the contiguous United States.
Not sure what I'm supposed to do with a US phone number anyway, I'd probably be more embarrassed about using a US phone number then letting people in a HN meetup group see my real phone number.
deanc 1 days ago [-]
This is a conversation about a HN meetup in Europe. Google voice is not available on the free tier to Europeans. It requires google workspace.
Hamuko 1 days ago [-]
Doesn't WhatsApp have usernames these days?
deanc 1 days ago [-]
I believe in a group chat you can see everyone's phone number.
Melatonic 1 days ago [-]
They're rolling out a new feature I believe to allow username only
qifzer 1 days ago [-]
Hacker News London meets up on a semi-regular basis. They have recently moved from Meetup to Luma:
Ironically, a karma threshold will rule out most Finns
rasjani 9 hours ago [-]
I guess I have enough karma but what does non-green account name mean ?
shrubby 1 days ago [-]
Damn right:D
xtracto 1 days ago [-]
Great! I just spent the past 4 days in Helsinki for vacation (writing this from Silja ferry to Copenhage). Really lovely city , Allas pool Sauna is really a "something else" experience for a Mexican, and a friend of mine who lives there mentioned the vibrant startup community you guys have there. I read a bit more about it and visited Oodi library, which apparently has some great perks for startupers.
Im envious of the startup atmosphere you got there, particularly the more "socialized" less cutthroat d*k waving sense of it .
BonerWiener 1 days ago [-]
> We use a WhatsApp group for co-ordination
I would've gladly joined if you hadn't decided on a service owned by Meta...
icy 1 days ago [-]
It initially begun as an email thread, but we settled on WhatsApp owing to, well, most people having WhatsApp.
mr_mitm 1 days ago [-]
Surely e-mail is even more widely used?
theshrike79 1 days ago [-]
Dunno if it's a generational thing or what, but I check my email like maybe once a day sometimes I can go 2-3 days without looking at it. It's just a place where Stuff gathers and I go through it when I Get around to it. Can't even remember when I used email to actually communicate with a non-business entity outside of work.
WhatsApp messages I get immediately.
e12e 1 days ago [-]
Surely checking once every three days is frequent enough to see an invite for a meetup that happens once every eight to ten weeks?
RicoElectrico 1 days ago [-]
I am not from the area but the deliberations about which messaging platform is kosher are an enormous time waste for every bottom-up organization, especially FOSS projects or hacker spaces.
opan 1 days ago [-]
Interesting you think it's less important for "FOSS projects". I would think the chat should be free software especially in those circles. IRC, XMPP, Matrix, email. Lots of options that have been around for decades now.
Hamuko 1 days ago [-]
As a Finn, I've definitely had to say the phrase "No, I don't have WhatsApp" more times than I care to count. That being said, I imagine a FOSS project or hacker space to be more cognisant of WhatsApp's ownership than a car dealership trying to sell me a used car via video call. I got rid of my WhatsApp precisely because Meta started tweaking the terms of service.
calpaterson 1 days ago [-]
There is a conscientious objector to every communication system. As was said above: WhatsApp had the fewest.
teddyh 1 days ago [-]
There are a few people who don’t use e-mail, sure, like Donald Knuth. But conscientious objectors to e-mail? I don’t know of any, and if you find any, they probably don’t use the Internet, either.
Melatonic 1 days ago [-]
There is also Böbbi Tables from Trollhein
tamimio 1 days ago [-]
My thoughts exactly, but I noticed Europe is heavily dependent on WhatsApp for some reason, everyone I have ever talked to before they ask for WhatsApp and some even look shocked when you say you never use it! Instead of email, simpleX or element would do the job.
izacus 1 days ago [-]
They'll enjoy their time without you just fine.
king_crimson 1 days ago [-]
Anyone who’d be interested in a meetup in Cologne?
olegp 1 days ago [-]
There was one 14 years ago. I even gave a talk there once. Maybe some of the original organizers or attendees who commented on this post would be interested in rebooting it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4754269
yitchelle 1 days ago [-]
I am in if it one is running. email in bio if you want to reach out to coordinate.
gpugreg 1 days ago [-]
Sure! But where?
king_crimson 1 days ago [-]
Wherever, can be also in a Brauhaus :)
Updated my bio with an email, feel free to contact me (also in german)
DomB 1 days ago [-]
+1
king_crimson 1 days ago [-]
Feel free to contact me via the mail in my bio (also in german)
asimpletune 1 days ago [-]
Would anyone be interested in meeting up in Rome? My contact's on my profile and I'm happy to organize.
zedr 1 days ago [-]
Perhaps we could host it jointly in Milan and Rome?
ramon156 1 days ago [-]
Any Meetups in NL? Im far from the Randstad, would've loved to host one otherwise
I'd rather not go there. Too crowded, too busy, too much violence. I wouldn't mind a city, though. Is Zwolle an option?
Edit: just saw your profile, sorry never mind ^^'
ht_th 1 days ago [-]
I just moved to Kampen, so if you can get a Zwolle thing going, I'm game
techsystems 1 days ago [-]
Eindhoven?
rrr_oh_man 1 days ago [-]
That is amazing. Back in Helsinki soon. <3
Archit3ch 1 days ago [-]
Same!
mchinen 1 days ago [-]
I'd love tips for maintaining a good meetup.
I tend to like the smaller meetups that are focused. But they often degrade in quality as they scale. A failure mode I hit several times was group circles with a louder or opinionated person eventually entering and taking the focus of the group. For large meetups that's not an issue I suppose. Break-out groups did work, but it needs some planning.
Nice. Does anyone know if a Stockholm group exists?
JackDanMeier 1 days ago [-]
Not as far as I know. We can surely start one tho.
I wouldn't mind just setting a spot and time, and then those who can just show or don't.
I can make a post about it promoting it.
soderfoo 7 hours ago [-]
Please do.
walagran 1 days ago [-]
HN Fika! Lmk if you set it up
mingusrude 1 days ago [-]
I'd be interested too.
amberjack 1 days ago [-]
I live in Helsinki so this seems fun. Commenters everywhere are a pretty strongly (self-)selected bunch so seems like a good way to get a strong selection effect without arduous requirements. Does anyone have previous experience with this kind of a setup?
VCFundedGenYer 1 days ago [-]
Not going, but just adding commentary - Having a karma requirement for a physical meetup is a poor choice. People will come out physically if they truly care, gatekeeping it with internet points is a bad idea, especially if you turn people away.
calpaterson 1 days ago [-]
Having it be an open invitation meetup would attract a very different cohort and would have a very different character. Feel free to start that meetup - I might give it a try. But I wouldn't be interested in spending my personal time organising it
Maxion 1 days ago [-]
Specifically only interested in this because of the karma limit.
melvinroest 1 days ago [-]
Anyone want to organize one in Amsterdam with me? I live near the area, would be fun :)
workfromspace 1 days ago [-]
Do we have enough people in Tallinn, Estonia to organize one here as well? :)
divan 9 hours ago [-]
There seems to be 2 locations created for Tallinn on meet.hn:
Great time to be an exchange student in Helsinki ;)
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Hugsbox 1 days ago [-]
Makes me wonder if there's any meetups in my neck of the woods in good ole Nova Scotia. I kind of doubt it, but it would be wicked. Hope you guys have a great time!
healthDev 1 days ago [-]
Idga game dev events are cool, but this could be more coding focused so definetly interested lacking points, but sent the form anyways
Melatonic 1 days ago [-]
I see a bunch of people interested in Los Angeles on https://meet.hn/
huksley 1 days ago [-]
Very cool, excited to join as well - lets talk there is opportunity to have a space for this up to 20-30 ppl
notpushkin 1 days ago [-]
This is very cool. I’ve lived in Tallinn for a while so definitely would attend if it was ~5-ish years ago.
matheusmoreira 1 days ago [-]
Is there a list of these by country?
calpaterson 1 days ago [-]
There is https://meet.hn/, which is a good way to bootstrap (and indeed, how I bootstrapped this meetup)
matheusmoreira 1 days ago [-]
Hey I'm already on the site! Used to have the link with my city on my profile.
How does one bootstrap a meet from this? Just explore the map around my location and try to get in contact with people somehow?
calpaterson 1 days ago [-]
You pray that people either have their contact details in their HN profile or that they attached some social networks to their meet.hn post.
Then you trawl through your set of qualified leads :)
hnacobsxph 1 days ago [-]
This is what I keep telling people
tommica 1 days ago [-]
Man, if I still lived in Finland, I'd absolutely want to go! Seems like a fantastic idea!
knuckleheads 1 days ago [-]
Long shot, but if there is anybody reading this from Salzburg, lmk if you want to meet up!
Arshad-Talpur 1 days ago [-]
Is there any meetup in Paris?
kekqqq 1 days ago [-]
Anyone from Prague who would like to meet other active HN users?
icy 1 days ago [-]
Thanks for reminding me to attend this. I'll try to join the next one!
mixnix 1 days ago [-]
Is there one for Warsaw?
ionwake 1 days ago [-]
theres def atleast one OG guy id love to buy a coffee/beer for there, no idea if he goes to HN meets tho, would love to attend at when Im next over there in any case.
ValentineC 1 days ago [-]
Anyone interested in a meetup in Singapore?
joshdavham 1 days ago [-]
Any meetups in Vancouver, Canada?
tamimio 1 days ago [-]
Or Ontario?
mchinen 1 days ago [-]
Any interest in a Lisbon meetup?
nxtbl 1 days ago [-]
> We use a WhatsApp group for co-ordination. The time and location of the meetup is announced there.
That's a hard no. You really, really should use Signal instead.
outime 1 days ago [-]
I suppose organizers choose the easiest way to contact people rather than relying on one of the least-used messaging apps that people won't install just to attend a meetup.
Or link them and more via a Matrix server - but that would require a bit more work to do.
getpokedagain 1 days ago [-]
Anyone north east pa USA?
nabeards 1 days ago [-]
As in North East, PA, the town in Erie County?
getpokedagain 1 days ago [-]
Nah. Other side of the state :D
nabeards 20 hours ago [-]
Ah, bummer haha
dlojudice 1 days ago [-]
great idea! pls, hnmeetup.com/[place] anyone?
notpushkin 1 days ago [-]
https://meet.hn/ is tangential but not quite for meetups, just discovering who lives nearby. Could be a good starting point though!
1 days ago [-]
jrflowers 1 days ago [-]
> To keep the group focused on posters (and not just readers!) anyone can join so long as:
> they have a non-greenname account
> they have 64 karma or more
Is the karma checked at the door or is it at the time of submission? Seems like somebody could be at 12 and then post “actually I believe the general consensus on gravity is wrong” in the right thread the night before and roll in with 89 points
earthnail 1 days ago [-]
Then they made a proper effort to get there. Fair game IMHO.
jdw64 1 days ago [-]
Ah, if only I were from Helsinki, I would have signed up.
xxs 1 days ago [-]
Tallinn - then take ferry
block_dagger 1 days ago [-]
64 karma requirement? Pfft. I’d go to a 1k min karma meetup tho ;)
rrr_oh_man 1 days ago [-]
I refuse to join any meetup where some like me meets the karma requirements.
ifdefdebug 1 days ago [-]
You mean 1024 right?
voxelghost 1 days ago [-]
You mean 1337 right? You are almost there, just need 20 more.
xxs 1 days ago [-]
sounds about right, people with 64 with just drink the (supposedly) free beer and not talk until much later.
Filled the form and included my email with the HN user ID just in case you'd be willing to deliver the meeting details that way when they've been decided.
The phone number is not associated with WhatsApp (never had it, and won't), but it works with Signal in case it would be more viable option for meetup info comms than email. Who knows, perhaps even a shadow group already exists there, or has potential to get established?
Thank you for arranging such gatherings, hoping to meet up soon!
But it's still a great idea, and I wish you all happy meetups. Would be nice if this inspired other groups to form too.
I'm sure there are other HN local meetups who could post in this thread - please do if you have a local meetup
If anyone else wants to join the email thread for a Berlin HN meetup, ping me an email - no google nor whatsapp required ;)
Like, worst case scenario we just start with the two of us.
I can use the work office, have more then enough coffee, tea etc. with space to around 150 people.
https://forms.gle/2pDEkQTYihQ4txK29
(Copy pasted the form. Why change a winning team)
That would allow using it with strangers, without sharing a number, in the future.
> Google Voice is a telephone service that provides a U.S. telephone number to Google Account customers in the U.S. and Google Workspace customers in Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the contiguous United States.
Not sure what I'm supposed to do with a US phone number anyway, I'd probably be more embarrassed about using a US phone number then letting people in a HN meetup group see my real phone number.
https://luma.com/calendar/cal-plFkEeW4fsaL5Nx
Im envious of the startup atmosphere you got there, particularly the more "socialized" less cutthroat d*k waving sense of it .
I would've gladly joined if you hadn't decided on a service owned by Meta...
WhatsApp messages I get immediately.
https://www.meetup.com/euregiotechmeetup/
Edit: just saw your profile, sorry never mind ^^'
I tend to like the smaller meetups that are focused. But they often degrade in quality as they scale. A failure mode I hit several times was group circles with a louder or opinionated person eventually entering and taking the focus of the group. For large meetups that's not an issue I suppose. Break-out groups did work, but it needs some planning.
I can make a post about it promoting it.
https://meet.hn/city/59.4372155,24.7453688/Tallinn (7 people)
https://meet.hn/city/59.4372420,24.7572693/Tallinn (1 person)
How does one bootstrap a meet from this? Just explore the map around my location and try to get in contact with people somehow?
Then you trawl through your set of qualified leads :)
That's a hard no. You really, really should use Signal instead.
Edit: It doesn't even seem to be strictly required https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181030
Or link them and more via a Matrix server - but that would require a bit more work to do.
> they have a non-greenname account
> they have 64 karma or more
Is the karma checked at the door or is it at the time of submission? Seems like somebody could be at 12 and then post “actually I believe the general consensus on gravity is wrong” in the right thread the night before and roll in with 89 points
>To join, fill out the Google Form.
Bro gtfoh