Ask Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, anything Today, Mon 18 Oct 2010.

Re:Ask Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, anything Tod... by tlrobinson on Monday October 18, 2010 @04:52PM (#1805098)

Indeed. GitHub has the mindshare to get a critical mass of people to their drinkups, but a lot of startups don't. But if those startups were to combine forces they might...

Proposal: GitHub used to do their San Francisco drinkup bi-weekly, now it's monthly. How about a bunch of smaller (popularity-wise) startups (or any project with a community) in SF fill in that gap?

This would also facilitate the "cross-polination" that GitHub drinkups achieve by bringing together different groups of people.

Cappuccino already has it's weekly "CPCoder Night" on Wednesdays but that's more sitting a cafe hacking and helping each other out with technical problems. I'd be happy to help organize something like I described above if people are interested (feel free to email me at the address in my profile if you're interested)

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Re:Ask Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, anything Tod... by PStamatiou on Monday October 18, 2010 @04:55PM (#1805110)

280 North + Notifo + X + Y + Z Drinkups.. I like it. Though 280 could probably pull off their own drinkup ;)

If there is enough interest in this from other local startups, I'll setup some google group where we can discuss logistics/planning.

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Re:Ask Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, anything Tod... by icco on Monday October 18, 2010 @05:11PM (#1805175)

This sounds like it would be easy to make an app for it. Just let everyone vote for their favorite bar for a drinkup in SF, and a day, and then you all show up.

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Re:Ask Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, anything Tod... by tlrobinson on Monday October 18, 2010 @05:08PM (#1805161)

We need a name. "Startups" + "drinks" = DRINKUP!

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Re:Ask Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, anything Tod... by loluyede on Monday October 18, 2010 @05:51PM (#1805309)

you startuppers drink a lot :-P Joking, wish I was in SF ;-)

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Re:Ask Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, anything Tod... by tlrobinson on Monday October 18, 2010 @05:54PM (#1805318)

Well, there's no reason you can't have the same kind of event in other cities. In fact this model of batching a bunch of startups/projects together would be perfect for areas with a lower density of startups...

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Re:Ask Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, anything Tod... by steveklabnik on Monday October 18, 2010 @06:02PM (#1805344)

There's already a loose association of events called "Startup Drinks"... we've got a fairly popular one here in Pittsburgh.

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