Ask HN: Finding people in London?

Posted by olliejudge on Thursday October 28, 2010 @09:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've lived in London my whole life however I've never really been able to find like minded people within my social circle. I'm an ex-military digital security specialist and looking to start some kind of company down the line, but right now I'm looking to just meet some people within the tech industry. Is there certain places you guys hang out or any specific meetups I should be attending. Failing that does anyone here want to share some stories and ideas over a coffee or a shot?

( 9 comments | 13 points | on HN )

Re:Ask HN: Finding people in London? by revorad on Thursday October 28, 2010 @09:33PM (#1845689)

I met some interesting people at the HN meetup a couple of months ago. I believe there's one every month. Have a look at http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/. There are also regular iphone, ruby and python dev meetups.

What are you working on at the moment?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Finding people in London? by dmitri1981 on Friday October 29, 2010 @04:18AM (#1846580)

Thanks for spreading the word. Just scheduled the next one for 25th November. See the link above

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Finding people in London? by nailer on Friday October 29, 2010 @03:36AM (#1846506)

where are the python meet ups? Last I checked there was a London Python users group but their page was dead and they hadn't run anything for years. thanks.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Finding people in London? by micrypt on Friday October 29, 2010 @11:26AM (#1847591)

There's the monthly London Python Code Dojo (which is excellent). Announcements are on the python-uk mailing list. http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Finding people in London? by Satinel on Thursday October 28, 2010 @09:36PM (#1845701)

London Hackpace http://london.hackspace.org.uk/

Its near the Hoxton railway station.

Am an InfoSec student, so if your looking for any potential employees do call me.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Finding people in London? by revorad on Thursday October 28, 2010 @09:39PM (#1845709)

Wow, that looks fun!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Finding people in London? by ig1 on Friday October 29, 2010 @05:02PM (#1849019)

There are a lot of tech meetups in London, you could literally go to a different one every night if you wanted to. Finding out about them is slightly trickier as they're all organized in different places (mailing lists, facebook, meetup, etc.)

I've found the best way to find out about them is to follow tech people on twitter.

If your looking for startup events check out this blog post I wrote about the startup scene in london:

http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/06/london-startup-event-g...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Finding people in London? by boothead on Friday October 29, 2010 @04:53AM (#1846646)

Hi Mate,

I'm an ex bootneck now programming in an investment bank. The London Financial Python User group is a good meeting to go to - usually about once every two months.

What are you into now?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Finding people in London? by pkirkham on Friday October 29, 2010 @06:10AM (#1846761)

If you're into Agile then Skillsmatter ( http://skillsmatter.com/ ) has a lot of free events

Or there's eXtreme Tuesday Club - http://xpday-london.editme.com/eXtremeTuesdayClub

Or if you want to meet a bunch of testers ( and me ) - London Tester Gathering - http://www.meetup.com/agiletesting/

[ Parent | on HN ]