Ask HN: Finding people in London?

13 pointsby olliejudgevor 16 Jahren9 comments

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?

5 comments

revoradvor 16 Jahren

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?

dmitri1981vor 16 Jahren

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

nailervor 16 Jahren

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.

micryptvor 16 Jahren

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

Satinelvor 16 Jahren

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.

revoradvor 16 Jahren

Wow, that looks fun!

ig1vor 16 Jahren

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...

bootheadvor 16 Jahren

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?

pkirkhamvor 16 Jahren

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/