Ask HN: Can anyone connect us with a venue for 400 people tommorow in MV/PA

[iamelgringo]

Hackers and Founders is having scaling problems. We've accidentally overbooked our Tech Talk event[1] tomorrow night at the Hacker Dojo, and we have over 100 people on the waiting list as well.

We could really use a venue in Palo Alto/Mountain View area that can accommodate around 400 people for a 2 1/2 hour event tomorrow night between 7 and 9:30pm.

We're checking in to space at Facebook. I don't know people of influence at Google :D. Hacker Dojo fits 150 comfortably. Stanford hasn't been very excited.

Feel free to call me: 408-963-7366 or email me: jonathan@newsley.com

If you can help out, we will sing your praises and give you a pound of fair trade coffee that was hand roasted for my by Mennonite/Amish missionaries in Honduras 3 days ago when I was there. It's a tasty cuppa Joe.

ref: [1] http://www.hackersandfounders.com/calendar/14399920/

[iamelgringo]

And the coffee goes to...

Joel and Yesenia of Microsoft BizSpark.

The meetup is changing venues and will accomodate 350 people at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View. I'll be updating the meetup page shortly.

BTW, BizSpark is also hosting SuperHappyDevHouse40 (the party for hackers, thinkers and robots) this Saturday in Mountain View – more at: http://shdh.org/40

Joel, Yesenia, I owe you big. Thank you so much.

[ryanwaggoner → iamelgringo]

Kudos to MS for a smart move. It would seem like you'd have tech companies falling all over themselves for the chance to host such a group. The PR value would be far higher than the marginal cost of using space that would probably be sitting empty anyway.

[iamelgringo → ryanwaggoner]

Joel is the BizSpark evangelist for the Bay Area. We had coffee a few weeks ago, and I was thoroughly impressed before he saved my hiney today.

He's a great guy. Well worth taking the time to get to know. He'll be at the Dev House this Saturday in MV.

[eitally → ryanwaggoner]

Microsoft has some great folks at the MTV tech center. I was impressed the lat time I visited.

[jf]

Working on it.

[iamelgringo → jf]

Thanks Joel. As I said, I owe you a big one.

[catch23]

Seems like it would be possible to have really big events outdoors somewhere given the nice bay area weather. The great outdoors would easily be able to accomodate a few hundred limited only by the power of your microphone sound system.

[iamelgringo → catch23]

Great point. Our events and venues are pretty much booked for the rest of the fall, but having H&F picnics seems like a crazy good idea.