Hello Japan HN people,

We’re organising a Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup on Friday the 9th of April. Reference URL – http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1220852

Here is a list of people currently planning to attend :

• Paul McMahon (pwim on HN) (+2 co-founders) -  Founder of mobalean (http://www.mobalean.com) – a Tokyo based consultancy specializing in web development for Japanese phones.
• Alexis Tabary (xixi on HN) - Co-founder of Assemblive: http://www.assemblive.com
• Patrick McKenzie  (patio11 on HN) sells Bingo Card Creator full-time as of April (http://www.bingocardcreator.com), with other products on the way.
• Paul Oswald (po on HN) and Jason Winder (jason_tko on HN) – Co-founders of MakeLeaps
• Seth DeLackner (delackner on HN)
• Travis Cardwell (1331 on HN) - Technical and mathematical anti-specialist, with plans to found a new startup
• Kristopher Tate (kristopher on HN)
• Chi (chip on HN)
• .Net Developer (Oil & Gas industry) from Calgary, Canada, also a partner in redmoonpetfood.com
• Jon Yongfook Cockle (fookyong on HN) – Runs http://seashellapp.com and http://peashootapp.com as SaaS apps, and director of web at http://glamour-sales.com
• Ray Grieselhuber (rgrieselhuber on HN) – President of Firewatching Media KK
  
• Nandemo on HN
• Bjoern Rennhak (Bjoern on HN) – PhD student (Computer Vision and Robotics, University of Tokyo), in the process of creating a startup
• Jeff Miller (jmillerinc on HN) - founder & CEO of Punchfork, a new (U.S.) web startup in the food & cooking space.
• Jed Schmidt (tr4nslator on HN) – translator by day and javascripter by night, working this week on his javascript micro-framework
  (http://fabjs.org).
• ClearF on HN – Works full-time in Tokyo in finance, but is thinking about a startup on the side.
• Richard Roberts (RichardInJapan on HN) - founder of RecMan Software.
• Richard Dunne (richarddunne on HN) – CEO of www.bdellium.com, which designs customized performance evaluation, competitive intelligence and decision-support tools for the financial services industry
• Timothy Langley (timothylangley on HN) – General Counsel at Triadd Software, k.k., formerly top lawyer at Apple Computer Japan and top legal guy at General Motors Asia Pacific.
• TT (earthling42 on HN) – Works in advertising, doesn’t do anything technical at work but in his spare time works on some hobby programming projects.
• Kazuya Sakakihara (Kazuya on HN) – Currently a software engineer at Sony Computer Entertainment.

Please let me know if there are any errors or alterations.

If you’d like to come along, please contact me at pj.oc.ti-tenbewnull@nosaj.  Please provide a 1 sentence profile on yourself, your HN username, and let me know if you don’t want it on this blog entry.  You will then receive information about the venue and time.

This blog post will be updated as additional people are confirmed.

UPDATE 5 APR

Thanks to our friends at Robert Walters, we’ve secured a fantastic venue in the heart of the city.  4 minute walk from Shibuya station, overlooking Shibuya from 14 floors up.

We’re also organising a caterer to provide everyone with food and drinks.

If you’re a Hacker News reader, and you would like to come, please make certain you’ve followed the above instructions, and booked in advance.

Hope to see you there!

Jason

Related posts:

1. Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #2 – Friday 18th of June
2. Report on Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup – Friday 9th of April
3. Live Twitter Feed of Hacker News Tokyo Japan Event

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