London Hacker News February Meetup

OT: I'm thinking about moving from Rome to London in a couple of months. During the first months there I'd like to work part time as a programmer: I'm very experienced with Ruby on Rails and Javascript/CoffeeScript and I would like to see from the inside how it works in the London startup scene, while I also work on my side project for which later I'll be looking for investors.<p>Any suggestions about how to start looking for contract or temporary work while not residing in London? Of course I'm willing to travel to interview and/or make arrangements, but I can't leave my current job immediately.

Here's a longshot: PG, when are you going to grace us with your presence and come give a talk? (we have pizza &#38; booze)

In case people are interested, the talks from previous events are online at <a href="https://vimeo.com/hnlondon" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/hnlondon</a>

I enjoyed the last one of these I went to, but it's not much of a networking event. You can get a bit of meet-and-greet in between the speaker talks, but everyone pretty much left after the last one, as the venue closed down. Anyone who wanted to network had to move on to a nearby pub, and few people made the effort, or knew where to go.

And conflicts with the other decent grassroots event in London - find-a-tech-job-in-London meetup - aaargh<p>I am sponsoring that one ! :-)<p>Slightly weird coincidence.

Out of interest, how many people from outside London go to these meetups?<p>I'm in Bristol, so a bit far to travel.

I'm going to miss this by a week =(