On: San Diego HN meetup is tonight 7:30pm-9:30pm Broadway Coffee in Kearny Mesa

[alabut]

I moved to SF from SD in late 05 and there wasn't much of a startup scene outside of biology or wireless hardware. Has that changed much since? Any YC alum down there?

[henning → alabut]

San Diego isn't too bad as far as general hacker stuff. We have a Ruby user group that meets at UCSD, an agile/extreme programming group, and a Django user group. Not too bad.

[alabut → henning]

Sounds interesting from a technical perspective. What about Lean Startups and other entrepreneurial stuff?

[paulbaumgart → alabut]

This has a pretty comprehensive overview of the sort of events people are organizing here: http://www.sdtechscene.org/

For people in our field, the entrepreneurial stuff pales in comparison to the SF Bay Area.

[alabut → paulbaumgart]

Looks like there's at least one really cool coworking spot though:

http://wiki.workatjelly.com/JellyInSanDiego

I still miss the coffeeshops down there, especially the 24 hour ones like Lestat's:

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=2610062677630197912

[bdb27 → henning]

I'd like to get a Scala users group added to this list. Any Scala users or enthusiasts in San Diego?

[tristan_juricek → bdb27]

I'm possibly interested in a Scala users group.

(Translation: I'm thinking of moving back to SD, we'll see in a couple of weeks.)

I guess that means count me in as a "maybe", which might be good enough to kick things off.

[jacoblyles → bdb27]

I'm very interested in working on a Scala open source project this summer. But I'm still pretty new to the language.

[jayliew → alabut]

SD is no SF, but I think you'll find the SD HN meetup to your liking if you're already hanging out here on HN. Come on by!

[alabut → jayliew]

Thanks for the invite - I'm still up here in SF, just curious about what's going on in my hometown. Cruising through the member list, I only found one startup:

http://phonehalo.com

Everyone else looks like CS students or researchers, is that right?

[jacoblyles → alabut]

There have been attendees from three other startups, at some phase in development (one just started, one company supports its founders, and one person sold a company and is working on their second).

[paulbaumgart → alabut]

It's somewhere around a 30/45/25% split of students/professionals/business owners.

And a good number of the first two groups are in the process of moving to the 3rd.

[ericabiz → alabut]

I'm a startup CEO and I attend the San Diego events. Couldn't make the last one, but I'm usually there.