Believe it or not, it's been 2 years since our first Philly news.yc meetup. This will make #23!
Our monthly no-agenda hackathon group has grown since then, but the core group still consists of the original members garnered from this news.yc comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42287
Anyway, if you are in the Philly Area, please sign up for the hackathon group. And if you are free next Tuesday evening, please join us in the city at the Cira Center (by 30th street) at 6PM. You need to sign up because the building has security and we need to put your name on there.
P.S. The "approval process" is really just a rubber stamp thing that prevents fake or obviously inappropriate members. If you want to bypass the whole thing, you can also email me directly.
Advertise much? I've been lurking HN since it was founded and never even heard of this. Shame I won't be in town that night. Would have loved to attend, and will try to make it to future events.
We'd be willing to help spread the word through the IndyHall community, a bunch of multi-disciplinary hackers hang out in our crew, as well as on the periphery.
Furthermore, we'd be happy to host something downtown in the coming months! Drop me a line.
Cool, this is Gabriel (yegg) in case you couldn't tell from my username :). Please point people to the signup page linked above. Can IndyHall host in November? That would be awesome.
There is a lot of overlap, but no formal relationship. We started before Dreamit existed. There are a lot of Dreamit hackers in the group, and we had one hackathon at Dreamit this summer (hosted by them).
Open to other location ideas. You don't need to be working on a project to hang out. If you want you can just sit around and give me feedback on my projects. Is that enticing enough to get you to come out :)
We've been doing this monthly, and have recently been alternating between KOP and 30th street. We haven't done any weekends yet, but are open to the possibility.
A few weekend events would be great...I have been to a grand total of one, because I have a day job(I suspect I am not the only one), and have to drive from NJ
We had been meeting at Bear Rock Cafe. But recently their Internet has gotten terrible, so last time we met at LiquidHub, at an office building by the Gateway Shopping Center. Any location ideas?
Sure, we usually say this: "Hack on your projects with other members of the Philly startup community. As always, there will be free Internet & no specific agenda. So be productive, or not..."
It's really just a way to get together and hang out with other hackers. Unlike some of the other groups around, there is no agenda so you are free to talk about anything really. Or hack. There is usually of course a lot of tech talk and specifically about what people are working on.
Our monthly no-agenda hackathon group has grown since then, but the core group still consists of the original members garnered from this news.yc comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42287
Anyway, if you are in the Philly Area, please sign up for the hackathon group. And if you are free next Tuesday evening, please join us in the city at the Cira Center (by 30th street) at 6PM. You need to sign up because the building has security and we need to put your name on there.
P.S. The "approval process" is really just a rubber stamp thing that prevents fake or obviously inappropriate members. If you want to bypass the whole thing, you can also email me directly.