SF JavaScript Meetup - lots of hackers, YC people, JS experts

[zellunit]

Hey all,

We're getting together a JavaScript meetup in downtown San Francisco at 7PM on April 16th. Specific location TBA but it will be somewhere in or near SOMA. We've got a number of YC companies represented, other startups, lots of awesome front-end hackers, and some huge names in the JS community.

It will be a lot of fun and you won't want to miss it so register and RSVP here:

http://javascript.meetup.com/4/

We'll have food, drink, a few awesome speakers, and lots of great networking and hacking.

See you then!

[tmm1]

Great idea, I'm so there.

Douglas Crockford is coming.. didn't he invent JSON?

[matt → tmm1]

Yup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford

Which YC companies have been doing cool JS stuff? Any of them going?

[hbien → matt]

Heh, I remember playing Day of the Tentacle a long time ago.

[marrone → tmm1]

yeah Crock is awesome. He also made jslint

jslint.com

[philc]

Great idea. I'd like to see what new stuff people have been doing with js. I built http://ninjawords.com and http://jjot.com about a year ago.

I feel like 200 would be too many. with 40, you can meet most everyone there and remember faces.

[gibsonf1]

What perfect timing. We just solved some graphing problems with JS in our webapp, and the results so far have been great :) We'll be there.

[robertk]

When does it end? If I went, I would fly over from Chicago for the afternoon/evening, so I have to know.

[gojomo]

I recommend putting events on Upcoming and Facebook Events, too, if you want big attendance.

[zain → gojomo]

I actually hope they don't. Having a small, core YC crowd there would be much nicer than seeing all the Web 2.0 party hoppers you normally see at events on Upcoming.

[gojomo → zain]

Cozy for insiders can be good too!

In which case, I suggest posting a fake decoy event on Upcoming to draw away all "the Web 2.0 party hoppers". Put it at 111 Minna.