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Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

https://calpaterson.com/helsinki-hn.html
94•calpaterson•2h ago

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calpaterson•1h 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

svlasov•56m ago
Too bad this requires using WhatsUp.
olegp•33m ago
WhatsApp isn't really required. If you submit the form, we will email about about the date and location of the next event.
rrr_oh_man•54m ago
Excellent initiative, Cal! Thanks for organising
weli•52m ago
Please! Would love HN meetup in Berlin.
bossyTeacher•33m ago
Make it happen, don't wait for someone else to do the work on your behalf :)
earthnail•13m 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).
soderfoo•58m ago
Nice. Does anyone know if a Stockholm group exists?
JackDanMeier•31m 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.

jdw64•56m ago
Ah, if only I were from Helsinki, I would have signed up.
rrr_oh_man•55m ago
That is amazing. Back in Helsinki soon. <3
slerb•54m ago
I'd love to join, sadly I'm mainly lurking around here so I don't have the required karma.
notpushkin•40m ago
Tell a bit more about yourself and maybe somebody would invite you as a +1?
block_dagger•50m ago
64 karma requirement? Pfft. I’d go to a 1k min karma meetup tho ;)
ifdefdebug•48m ago
You mean 1024 right?
Metacelsus•34m ago
relevant: https://xkcd.com/1000/
voxelghost•32m ago
You mean 1337 right? You are almost there, just need 20 more.
Retr0id•12m ago
1k? pfft, I'd go to a 10k karma meetup
icy•50m ago
Thanks for reminding me to attend this. I'll try to join the next one!
Arshad-Talpur•49m ago
Is there any meetup in Paris?
toivo•40m ago
Would be interesting to join but have to get bit more karma :)
olegp•37m ago
We're not too strict about that, please join!
darkwater•29m ago
I think you will have enough after your message ;)
eric_khun•29m ago
let me help
ramon156•39m ago
Any Meetups in NL? Im far from the Randstad, would've loved to host one otherwise
tosti•19m ago
I'd rather not go there. Too crowded, too busy, too much violence. I wouldn't mind a city, though. Is Zwolle an option?
notpushkin•34m ago
This is very cool. I’ve lived in Tallinn for a while so definitely would attend if it was ~5-ish years ago.
king_crimson•34m ago
Anyone who’d be interested in a meetup in Cologne?
olegp•30m 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
DomB•26m ago
+1
asimpletune•32m ago
Would anyone be interested in meeting up in Rome? My contact's on my profile and I'm happy to organize.
zedr•28m ago
Perhaps we could host it jointly in Milan and Rome?
jrflowers•30m 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•7m ago
Then they made a proper effort to get there. Fair game IMHO.
knuckleheads•27m ago
Long shot, but if there is anybody reading this from Salzburg, lmk if you want to meet up!
BonerWiener•24m 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•21m ago
It initially begun as an email thread, but we settled on WhatsApp owing to, well, most people having WhatsApp.
RicoElectrico•11m 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.
trilogic•21m ago
It was interesting until I saw:

>To join, fill out the Google Form.

Bro gtfoh

sqbic•18m 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!

c7b•17m ago
+1 for Vienna
punnerud•14m 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.

https://forms.gle/2pDEkQTYihQ4txK29

(Copy pasted the form. Why change a winning team)

getpokedagain•12m ago
Anyone north east pa USA?
wissio•11m ago
Ironically, a karma threshold will rule out most Finns
ionwake•8m 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.

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