Update 1 I'm for a democracy of input, but a autocratic way of making decisions. Hence the following.

- place of meeting: in Utrecht - Date: soon (tbd) - Digital home (temporary): here on HN or http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-nl/ - Non-commercial and low-cost (so no Igluu) - Important? Passion&Spirit

I would like to organise this thing. Seriously. Lifelong hacker but rusty on the tech-skills. So I have developed reasonable social skills ;) If you all have a true interest in this I would be a very happy man.

Suggestions are welcome regarding: - possible locations in Utrecht - presentation-style (long-medium-short) - topics

I'm willing to help out organizing. I live in utrecht. Have contacts with seats2meet and can also offer a free space. Contact me through my profile.

Facebook group created: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=212933951463

I think www.seats2meet.com (located at the central station) is THE place for meetings like this in Utrecht.

Utrecht++

If Utrecht is an acceptable place we could do it at iGluu (my shared office)

15 euros each for drinks & location for a couple of hours.

Looks like this: http://www.igluu.nl/img/slideshowOneSpace/050.jpg

10 min. walk from Utrecht C.S. (train station) Car: parking available nearby but Utrecht will be Utrecht.

I've got two possible dates: 29th of December, 7th of January. (unfortunately I can't make it myself on the 7th). In both cases the time would be c. 19:00 - 22:00 I'm not sure on the proper way to do this but I guess upvoting your preference would do the trick.

Edit: location, time.

It already looks like this is going to be too small.

29th of December

7th of January

If an intro to Clojure and/or musical programming (live-coding) sounds interesting to people I'd be happy to present and demo an audio synthesis system I've been working on. (http://github.com/rosejn/overtone) It uses an interesting DSL for reading and writing binary files, does some networking, and lets you define DSP graphs for synthesizing audio.

I'm interested in both!

An intro to SuperCollider would be nice too =)

Would love to attend, as long as there would be some talks in English (I don't know Dutch that well). I'm in Haarlem / Amsterdam.

I'd love to attend, Utrecht is the right location (although I'm in Amsterdam).

I'm kinda fluent in Dutch if you can handle brutalised word order and a particularly nasty English accent in Dutch :-)

The dutch-speaking people (flemish and dutch) are typically fairly good at english so that shouldn't be a problem at all.

Same here, I'd say we have a reasonable non-Dutch speaking minority. Amsterdam.

Same here, interested but not fluent in Dutch yet. I'm in Enschede.

That comment could have been from me! Ditto.

Ditto. I hope there are some lectures in English.

I see a lot of votes for Utrecht and Amsterdam. These cities are a 25 minutes travel from each other. Like birger said: seats2meet.com is a great concept that we can use for this meetup. I am definitely game. But organizing this on HN is going to be hard. The Yahoo group is an option to make some clear arrangements.

This is a great point. I always forget how easy travel is here...

I'm interested too, i live in the north of Belgium, so Eindhoven would be great :)

Definitely interested, make that a vote for Eindhoven (closer to Belgium).

Interested. I'm in Ghent, Belgium. I can travel in the weekends.

I would love to meet some Dutch HN-ers! I'm also in Amsterdam.

Interested! Live in Utrecht but could travel to Amsterdam easily. Would be nice to have 1 or 2 presentations I think, as it spices up the evening.

Could we have a poll on what city to do the meetup in?

No

Let me explain myself. More input, more ideas and in my humble experience reduces the likelihood of getting things done quickly. We can discuss on cities for months, everybody wants to have it close to their home, but it simply can't be close for all. Hence I choose Utrecht: central and in general easy to reach by public transport/car. So no poll please.

And we do want everybody to be able to attend this meet-up.

What should a meet-up be like? Should there be presentations, workshops or just share drinks and ideas? Please comment with suggestions!

Yet another interested! Originally from Sweden, but living in Groningen. But location of the meet-up should not be a problem. :)

Cool idea! I live in Amsterdam too. I'm game.

Living in Delft, Netherlands. I would be interested. I can also arrange a meeting place here for (almost) free.

What place would that be? I'm in Delft as well.

That would be www.hetmeisjeshuis.nl. Here we have out monthly drinks and other activities with the ICT-Kring Delft (society with about 140 ICT entrepreneurs).

Interested! (and peer pressured into joining for just this!) Amsterdam or Utrecht, Delft will all do :)

Interested, Eindhoven. Unfortunately, my Dutch is not good, i hope there will be some talks in English.

Interested. Utrecht and amsterdam are both fine by me. Sneek would be to much of a commute :)

I'm interested but not definitely, located in Enschede but can travel in the weekends.

Sounds great, I prefer Utrecht

Interested. I'm in Amsterdam.

Interested and in Antwerp, but most cities in Holland won't be a problem.

I'm interested and I'm from Eindhoven. Traveling is generally no problem.

I'm in as well. Amsterdam.

Definately interested. Located in Utrecht and able to provide a space.

what is your theoretical maximum amount of people (we don't need to sit)? and the walking time from Central station?

Interested, Amsterdam :-)

I'm in, living in Enschede, so I'd prefer Utrecht to Amsterdam.

Count me in (Eindhoven). Early January would be perfect for me.

Maybe we should call it a Dutch-Flemish meetup and pick Eindhoven for a central location?

for more information on the meetup check this link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011911

I'm interested too, I'm in Eindhoven but any big city is ok.

Interested but not definitely in. (The missus is due the 30th.)

I'm in Delft.

Interested, Amsterdam!

Wow, there are a lot of us! Amsterdam or Utrecht preferred.

I'm reasonably close (Cologne, Germany). I'd be interested.

In! I'm in Amsterdam.

I'm down! Amsterdam

Interested, Amsterdam/Utrecht is good for me.

+1 on Amsterdam, Utrecht will do as well though.

Rotterdam, interested

Utrecht or Amsterdam won't be a problem

Definitely interested. I am in Eindhoven.

I'm in Rotterdam, possibly interested.

I work in Amsterdam and live nearby.

I'm down for that! I'm from Utrecht.

Cool! I prefer Amsterdam or Utrecht.

Very interested. I am in Eindhoven.

I'm in Amsterdam and interested....

I'm interested, I live in Leiden.

Amsterdam++

Interested! I'm in Dordrecht.

Another vote for Utrecht.

Interested, Amsterdam.

Also interested.

I'm in (Utrecht)

interested :)