Let's try to build a list of all Hacker News meet up groups and organize new groups for cities that don't have one yet.<p>Please post the name of your city and a link to your group.
San Francisco<p><a href="http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Hacker-News-Meetup/" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Hacker-News-Meetup/</a><p>The first meetup a couple of days ago was successful- thanks Dan for organizing it and Coderwall for hosting. Hope to see more of these.<p>Also:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/gosfhn" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/groups/gosfhn</a> <a href="http://sfhn.eventbrite.com" rel="nofollow">http://sfhn.eventbrite.com</a>
Austin, TX - new group - let's see if we can get together.<p><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-ATX/" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-ATX/</a>
Vancouver*<p><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-Vancouver" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-Vancouver</a><p>* - New group! Let's see whether there are enough of us to start a regular meetup.
Sacramento"ish" here: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Nevada-County-Hackers/" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/Nevada-County-Hackers/</a><p>I'm the Meetup group's organizer, and our first real meetup is a hackathon this weekend: <a href="http://www.nevadacityhackathon.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nevadacityhackathon.com/</a><p>Nelson gave a great demo of D3.js. We're a decent group of people to know if you're within 50 miles or so of Sac'to.
New York City: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News/New-York-NY/" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News/New-York-NY/</a><p>Only a couple people, please join!<p>If you are looking to start a meetup in your own city please make it under the Meetup Everywhere for Hacker News, that way we get a nice directory - and it's free!<p><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News</a>
On a related note, can someone advice on how to make most from these meetups. I created a thread for it.
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4862067" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4862067</a>
DC - <a href="http://meetup.hackernewsdc.org/" rel="nofollow">http://meetup.hackernewsdc.org/</a><p>It seems like it is literally always run when I'm out of town, but I've heard nothing but greatness abounds.
HN folks in St. Louis, check out the StartLouis startup group. Our next meetup is this Tuesday!<p><a href="http://startlouis.com" rel="nofollow">http://startlouis.com</a>