HN meetup in Chicago

[rguzman]

http://groups.google.com/group/hn-chicago/browse_thread/thread/4631336aca743e58

[pchristensen]

So Monday 10/18, 8pm, at Hophaus http://www.thehophaus.com/ at 646 N. Franklin?

[dschobel → pchristensen]

Monday is the 19th, but otherwise, yes

[krschacht → pchristensen]

Sweet, I'm in. I'll keep an eye on this thread in case the time changes but I'm game for a meetup.

I also love violet hour but Hop Haus is a much better choice for this.

[rguzman → pchristensen]

yes.

[tptacek]

I'll go Monday. I'm not a huge fan of Hop Haus, but it is very easy to get people together there; on a Monday night, the dining room will be pretty much empty.

(We do ChiSec every month at Hop Haus).

Hopleaf is D.O.A. for a meetup. It's a madhouse every single night of the week.

I'd love to convince you all to meet at Violet Hour, but I'm thinking $11 cocktails don't match the Chicago startup ethos.

[dschobel → tptacek]

Violet Hour would be awesome but I don't think they'd be thrilled to have a bunch of guys in ironic t-shirts ruining their ambiance. :)

[tptacek → dschobel]

They don't care; I've asked them about it. The only issue is space and expense.

[rguzman → tptacek]

Violet Hour would be cool, except that we're trying to keep it close to the loop so that it is easiest for everyone to get there.

Check the thread later, I don't think the monday time is settled yet.

[tptacek → rguzman]

Well, figure out a date and let us know here; I'm not sure why Google Groups is a better place to organize a meetup than right here, though.

My advice, after doing ~30 ChiSec meetups averaging ~30 people in the last year and a half, is just to pick something, get people together in a room, and then if the date isn't perfect you can move it next meetup.

[dschobel → tptacek]

Agree about the google groups thing. Someone should just register a twitter account for HNchi or YCchi like the Melbourne guys did: http://twitter.com/ycmelb

[mattdennewitz → rguzman]

violet hour afterwards?

[jrockway → mattdennewitz]

If there's an afterwards, you're doing the meetup wrong :)

[kingkilr]

Man, being a student out in the middle of nowhere sucks, I miss all the cool events in the city.

[mronge → kingkilr]

Let me guess, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign?

[endlessvoid94 → mronge]

That's where I am. However, there's a little thing called Reflections | Projections this weekend ;-)

[kajecounterhack → endlessvoid94]

hey dave, good to see you on news.yc haha (I met you at ACM & HackU) Pity we can't make it monday. It would have been cool :/

[endlessvoid94 → kajecounterhack]

Could you facebook message me? I don't recognize your username, sorry!

[kingkilr → mronge]

Nope, I'm at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. I'm just from Chicago.

[rman666]

The Security Decisions Conference will be in downtown Chicago 10/21 and 10/22. Any chance the meeting could be held then? You'd probably get a lot of infosec people. See http://infosecuritydecisions.techtarget.com/infosecuritydeci... for details.

[sachinag]

I'll be there, but I'll be late, so don't y'all all pack up and move from there. Besides, I'm already budgeting for the calories of a burger.

[jakelumetta → sachinag]

I'm down. This should be awesome.

[jrockway]

Nice. Thanks for finally getting Chicago organized!

I am both looking forward to and dreading meeting tptacek in real life ;)

[there]

i'll try to come down from the nw suburbs for this.

now if i could just find a train schedule...

[dschobel → there]

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879439