Believe it or not, it's been 2 years since our first Philly news.yc meetup. This will make #23!

Our monthly no-agenda hackathon group has grown since then, but the core group still consists of the original members garnered from this news.yc comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42287

Anyway, if you are in the Philly Area, please sign up for the hackathon group. And if you are free next Tuesday evening, please join us in the city at the Cira Center (by 30th street) at 6PM. You need to sign up because the building has security and we need to put your name on there.

P.S. The "approval process" is really just a rubber stamp thing that prevents fake or obviously inappropriate members. If you want to bypass the whole thing, you can also email me directly.

Advertise much? I've been lurking HN since it was founded and never even heard of this. Shame I won't be in town that night. Would have loved to attend, and will try to make it to future events.

No, pretty much do no advertising except for HN. But I don't want to spam here, so this is only the third post (once a year).

Yeah, different people show up to each event based on their schedules.

We'd be willing to help spread the word through the IndyHall community, a bunch of multi-disciplinary hackers hang out in our crew, as well as on the periphery.

Furthermore, we'd be happy to host something downtown in the coming months! Drop me a line.

Cool, this is Gabriel (yegg) in case you couldn't tell from my username :). Please point people to the signup page linked above. Can IndyHall host in November? That would be awesome.

Also never heard of this, but it sounds interesting. I'll head over and sign up.

Ahh, poor timing for me. Wish it were Wednesday. When will the next one after this be?

Sometime next month. We usually allow members to give feedback on dates before the final scheduling.

Does DreamIt Ventures have any relation with Phily Hackethon. Do we get an access to them through Hackethon

There is a lot of overlap, but no formal relationship. We started before Dreamit existed. There are a lot of Dreamit hackers in the group, and we had one hackathon at Dreamit this summer (hosted by them).

Funny -- I've been to both the Philly.rb meetings and the new Build Guild meetings and had no idea that this even existed.

Is there any type of consolidated event site for these things?

Regardless, I'll see you there.

http://phillynewmediahub.com/ has a bunch of stuff, though not these hackathons. http://macalliance.basecampbusiness.com/calendar/search has some stuff too, though more bizy than hackathony. Also missing though is Philly Lambda (http://groups.google.com/group/philly-lambda), which has hacker speaker type events, and PSL (http://phillystartupleaders.org/), which has startup focused events.

30th street is pretty far away, and I've got no project to work on. I like the idea of a Philly meet-up, but right now I think I'll sit this one out.

Where are you coming from?

13th and Spruce.

Open to other location ideas. You don't need to be working on a project to hang out. If you want you can just sit around and give me feedback on my projects. Is that enticing enough to get you to come out :)

Maybe! Depends what you're working on.

Main project is Duck Duck Go. Check out my Web site for a list of others.

Oh, sweet! I know Duck Duck Go. Maybe I'll take the walk down.

Weekdays are typically bad for me. Do you have any future events in KOP area or in weekends.

We've been doing this monthly, and have recently been alternating between KOP and 30th street. We haven't done any weekends yet, but are open to the possibility.

A few weekend events would be great...I have been to a grand total of one, because I have a day job(I suspect I am not the only one), and have to drive from NJ

OK, we'll go for a weekend event sometime soon!

where in KOP do you meet?

I'm literally right down the street from the mall.

We had been meeting at Bear Rock Cafe. But recently their Internet has gotten terrible, so last time we met at LiquidHub, at an office building by the Gateway Shopping Center. Any location ideas?

I am in philly and i am interested. Can you tell me more about the event.

Sure, we usually say this: "Hack on your projects with other members of the Philly startup community. As always, there will be free Internet & no specific agenda. So be productive, or not..."

It's really just a way to get together and hang out with other hackers. Unlike some of the other groups around, there is no agenda so you are free to talk about anything really. Or hack. There is usually of course a lot of tech talk and specifically about what people are working on.