Helsinki Hacker News Meetup: Coffee, Code, and Community
An unofficial coffee-morning meetup for Hacker News posters in Helsinki, organized by Cal Paterson and Oleg Podsechin. Open to anyone with a non-green username and 64+ karma (or a personal invite). Meetings happen every 6-8 weeks, usually Sunday mornings at a central Helsinki coffee shop, with occasional beer gatherings. Coordination via WhatsApp; join through a Google Form.
It is completely unofficial - and nothing to at all do with the Y Combinator startup accelerator.
- toivo
Would be interesting to join but have to get bit more karma :)
- 71153750
I’m a student at Hive here in Helsinki and would love to attend. Lurking on HN for years but not nearly enough Karma. I’ve bookmarked the form for later however I’ll try my luck anyway with the form now. Very cool to know there is an HN meet up here!
- sqbic
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!
- calpaterson
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
- punnerud
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)
- deanc
Hi. Long-term HN user based in Helsinki. I'd join but don't really want to share my phone number with a large group of people. Can you not find another way to co-ordinate?
- qifzer
Hacker News London meets up on a semi-regular basis. They have recently moved from Meetup to Luma:
- wissio
Ironically, a karma threshold will rule out most Finns