I went to this event a year or two ago, I happened to be passing through japan. It's a very friendly event, real mix of different tech / startup presentations. Would highly recommend it if you're in the area :)
I've not been to the Tokyo meetups, but I certainly enjoyed the HN Kansai meetup. I met some interesting people hacking on (somewhat niche) fun things - game dev, web design, cryptocurrency, etc. Definitely recommend it!
I didn't think about a Hacker News meetup but it would be great to know other HN people in my area. I created a meetup right now for Milano, Italy. If you live there, check it out at https://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-Milano
These meetups always attract of a wide range of people - from people hacking on unique and interesting projects, to founders/CEOs, to investors, to programmers and marketers.
If you're in Tokyo and interested in meeting more people in the technology space, it's a very friendly and welcoming group of people.
I used to host the SFHN group, but the numbers started dwindling. Would be down to toss another one up just to get hackers out meeting other hackers: https://www.meetup.com/sfhackdays/
If anyone is in the UK and is not in London (the one HN specific event!) check out https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/ for local event Open Data listings. Not HN specific but pretty good :-)
I assume this is December? It should be on the title. I know it's mathematically the only month left, but it would be a much clearer title (especially if you read it, like me, on a Saturday morning, pre-caffeine :D).
Update: there is now a Hacker News Tokyo Slack community set up. There are currently over 140 people in there discussing business, technology, AI, machine learning, cryptocurrency, and various Japan related topics.
It's been really fun to watch this community come together in just the last few days!
If anyone is interested to check it out, you're very welcome. Please visit:
We usually penalize event announcements as not intellectually interesting but since this thread is turning into something more general, I took off the penalty.
That would be really cool, I'm sure a lot of people (including myself) have never heard of an HN meetup or knew they existed. This thread is building community, and seems really cool. If there was one resource where all the meetups were consolidated, what better place to do that than HN itself. Something like the github list posted by anton_tarasenko[1] but in the menu bar would even suffice fairly well IMO.
I'm going to dogpile on this thread and ask if anyone wants to do an HN meetup in the Atlanta area. I'd be happy to help organize if there isn't already such a group.
I have one Japan group.[2] Is it you guys? Otherwise, I'd like to add your permanent page to the list.
[1] https://github.com/antontarasenko/hacker-news-groups [2] https://www.facebook.com/Tokyo-Hacker-News-Community-1696102...