The next edition of the Hacker News Shanghai meetup will be held on October 27, 2011 at Abbey Road starting 7:00 PM; as usual, look for the table with a "招财猫" ("Lucky Cat"). First round of beers will be on us, along with some snacks.
Some of us have been organizing Open Source related events in Shanghai since 2008; BarCamp, Drupal meetups, Geek Out... Somehow we feel that Shanghai still lack of regular events for the tech crowd. We've tried to grow local Open Source communities in the past and recently stepped down from leading the local Drupal meetups to focus on preparing alternative events. We'll still be attending these meetups, and others such as the SHLUG for example, but we will spend our resources organizing events for the Open Source and tech audiences at large.
Several of our team members have been involved in one way or another in some of the tech events that are taking place in Shanghai, helping organizing Barcamp and DrupalCamp as early as 2008. We have been helding regular meetups in Shanghai (and even held one in Beijing) for the past 3 years and have been considering for a while now extending these meetups to all Open Source technologies; we feel that by doing so we will be in a much better position to leverage the local scene and foster initiatives.
Several of our team members have been involved in one way or another in some of the tech events that are taking place in Shanghai, helping organizing Barcamp and DrupalCamp as early as 2008. We have been helding regular meetups in Shanghai (and even held one in Beijing) for the past 3 years and have been considering for a while now extending these meetups to all Open Source technologies; we feel that by doing so we will be in a much better position to leverage the local scene and foster initiatives.