I live in Helsinki so this seems fun. Commenters everywhere are a pretty strongly (self-)selected bunch so seems like a good way to get a strong selection effect without arduous requirements. Does anyone have previous experience with this kind of a setup?

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!

Would be interesting to join but have to get bit more karma :)

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!

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?

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

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)

Ironically, a karma threshold will rule out most Finns

Not going, but just adding commentary - Having a karma requirement for a physical meetup is a poor choice. People will come out physically if they truly care, gatekeeping it with internet points is a bad idea, especially if you turn people away.

I'd love to join, sadly I'm mainly lurking around here so I don't have the required karma.

> We use a WhatsApp group for co-ordination

I would've gladly joined if you hadn't decided on a service owned by Meta...

I'd love tips for maintaining a good meetup.

I tend to like the smaller meetups that are focused. But they often degrade in quality as they scale. A failure mode I hit several times was group circles with a louder or opinionated person eventually entering and taking the focus of the group. For large meetups that's not an issue I suppose. Break-out groups did work, but it needs some planning.

Hacker News London meets up on a semi-regular basis. They have recently moved from Meetup to Luma:

https://luma.com/calendar/cal-plFkEeW4fsaL5Nx

Anyone want to organize one in Amsterdam with me? I live near the area, would be fun :)

Would anyone be interested in meeting up in Rome? My contact's on my profile and I'm happy to organize.

Anyone who’d be interested in a meetup in Cologne?

> We use a WhatsApp group for co-ordination. The time and location of the meetup is announced there.

That's a hard no. You really, really should use Signal instead.

Any Meetups in NL? Im far from the Randstad, would've loved to host one otherwise

Makes me wonder if there's any meetups in my neck of the woods in good ole Nova Scotia. I kind of doubt it, but it would be wicked. Hope you guys have a great time!

Is there one for Warsaw?

That is amazing. Back in Helsinki soon. <3

This is what I keep telling people

Is there a list of these by country?

Man, if I still lived in Finland, I'd absolutely want to go! Seems like a fantastic idea!

Very cool, excited to join as well - lets talk there is opportunity to have a space for this up to 20-30 ppl

Nice. Does anyone know if a Stockholm group exists?

This is very cool. I’ve lived in Tallinn for a while so definitely would attend if it was ~5-ish years ago.

Long shot, but if there is anybody reading this from Salzburg, lmk if you want to meet up!

theres def atleast one OG guy id love to buy a coffee/beer for there, no idea if he goes to HN meets tho, would love to attend at when Im next over there in any case.

Any interest in a Lisbon meetup?

Is there any meetup in Paris?

Thanks for reminding me to attend this. I'll try to join the next one!

Anyone north east pa USA?

great idea! pls, hnmeetup.com/[place] anyone?

> To keep the group focused on posters (and not just readers!) anyone can join so long as:

> they have a non-greenname account

> they have 64 karma or more

Is the karma checked at the door or is it at the time of submission? Seems like somebody could be at 12 and then post “actually I believe the general consensus on gravity is wrong” in the right thread the night before and roll in with 89 points

Ah, if only I were from Helsinki, I would have signed up.

64 karma requirement? Pfft. I’d go to a 1k min karma meetup tho ;)

It was interesting until I saw:

>To join, fill out the Google Form.

Bro gtfoh