First HN Meeting in Paris: story and pics

[bambax]

http://blog.medusis.com/first-paris-hackers-meetup

[thomas11]

Thanks for posting the summary. I imagine it helps forming a somewhat coherent group.

Some of your activities could be a good inspiration for the next HN Zurich meetup, which reminds me...

[ogrisel]

I really enjoyed this night, and especially the vast array of topics we got to discuss either in "stand up" mode or in small groups with beers.

A unique opportunity to keep up with the bleeding edge research done in Bayesian Data Fusion applied to StartCraft AI competitions.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_network

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_fusion

- http://skatgame.net/mburo/sc2011/

[sylvinus]

To follow the next meetups there : http://parishackers.org/

[tbassetto]

Thanks for writing this summary :) It was a real pleasure to see so many people (+ not French-speaking).

As discussed yesterday, next time we'll probably use badges to spark discussions and we'll find more time for recruiting sessions and MVP demos :)

BTW, we're looking for sponsors. hint hint

[fmw]

The event was hosted by Sylvinus (CTO of Joshfire.com) at the Joshfire office. He did a splendid job. I'm very appreciative of the effort and the event was quite successful. Thanks for the pizza and beer (and for allowing me to babble on about Clojure ;)

[sylvinus → fmw]

well, thanks! You sir are a gentleman and a scholar, I hope you can make it to the next ones!

Thanks again for coming and shedding some light on this weird Clojure thing ;-)

[sterling]

Just curious - was it mostly in French? English? Mixed?

[sylvinus → sterling]

All the presentations were and will remain in english. There was a fair share of people that didn't speak french, which is good!

[tbassetto → sterling]

English-only. Which is quite an achievement in France ;)

[Jun8 → sterling]

Which raises an interesting question: Should local hacker/nerd/entrepreneurial communities adopt an all-English approach or should they strive to invent at least some new vocabulary and use those.

[officemonkey → Jun8]

The fact that the _Paris_ meetup was conducted in English and not French means the question has already been settled.

[mrspeaker]

It was a really fun night: quite different to most meetups (thanks to the diverse range of people that HN attracts)... so there was something for everyone!

[eneveu]

Great event, awesome host and lots of good / original ideas for a meetup. I'm used to technology meetups with pre-planned presentations, but the top-10 / buzzwords "improvised" discussions were actually really cool.

As a bonus point, I got to practice my English. Still need to get rid of my french accent, though...

EDIT: I forgot to add the two links I talked about, in case you were interested but didn't write them down:

- http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo... --> HN RSS and Twitter feeds

- http://html5slides.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/template/index.h... / http://code.google.com/p/html5slides/ --> Google's HTML slide templates (relatively similar to those used at Google I/O 2011)

[sylvain_]

Thanks for this great summary and thank you all guys, it was a great start I think ! The buzzwords session was really fun.

[yardie]

Damn, I just came back from vacation when I received the notification yesterday. Sunburned and jetlagged, I could not make it.

See you in September!

[ovi256]

Really cool night, cool people, nice talks, interesting demos. Can't wait to do it again. And hope we'll hatch a nefarious plan to have PG over :)

[dananjaya86]

It was a great event..kudos for Sylvinus for organizing the meetup and for the Pizza and Beer!

[sylvinus → dananjaya86]

you also have to thank tbassetto for that! :)

[dananjaya86 → sylvinus]

My bad.. thanks a bunch tbassetto!

[czzarr]

can't believe i missed that, I wasn't aware a lot of people were reading HN in Paris :O

[tribeofone → czzarr]

Me too. Looking forward to the next event!

[enqk]

great event, great host and interesting spontaneous interventions.