After this thread on news.yc (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=79164) we hosted a meetup in London for UK based hackers. Around 40 people came along including one from as far as Italy. The Hypernumbers guys kindly donated a projector so we had some short demos and then went out for a meal.

There was a lot of enthusiasm to turn it into a regular monthly event and we've finally got round to setting that up - the next at 7pm this Friday (April 18th). Everyone who came last time already knows about it but I put this up here for any new members of this community.

If you'd like to come along just drop me an email [ian at songkick] or sign up to the Facebook group or Groupspaces group (Groupspaces is created by one of the hackers who came to the meetup so we're testing it for them).

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6677098162

http://groupspaces.com/ukhackers/join/

The goal is for hackers to meet up and discuss cool projects and get feedback on ideas - much like the atmosphere at a YC dinner. It's not focused on general entrepreneurship/business/VC stuff - for that there are already some great meetups e.g. Open Coffee.

Hope to see a few new faces on Friday.