Ask HN: Any meetups, hacker-spaces in India?

[sidmitra]

There are plenty of meetups, hackerspaces for people living in the Bay area for example. I was wondering do people here already do similar events, or interested in something like that in the future.

I've been to a couple of startup conferences hoping to come across people with a similar itch to build and play around with technologies, but they were infested with marketing people and sales pitches.

PS: I'm based in New Delhi.

[chaosprophet]

I'm working on a startup in Chennai, and I can't really say I've met many people who want to go the startup route, not even from IIT-M. Most seem to be content with working for others either as engineers or as MBAs. As such I'd say the startup scene is barely existent in India.

[nreece]

The biggest startup event in India is Proto: http://www.proto.in

Btw, a TED conference is scheduled this year in India as well: http://conferences.ted.com/TEDIndia

[zizou]

startup event conferences in india are a joke man! turn into networking and schmoozing sessions eventually.very difficult to meet people working on good product ideas and technologies. we're based out of mumbai and built a group around the IIT campus area. you might wanna try barcamp some rare gud showcases and people.

[sidmitra → zizou]

>startup event conferences in india are a joke man!

True!, i've seen the same things regurgitated each time and imagine a "startup" with more than a dozen products at a time. That's what i saw at some of the conferences, for example the recent SiliconIndia #startupcity.