UPDATE 16/6 : If you’re planning on coming, please make sure your name is on the list below.  Address, time, and details will be emailed to everyone on the list.

Following up on the success of our original Hacker News Event in April (check out the original post, and the post-event report), we’re pleased to announce we’re organising another HN Tokyo Meetup on Friday the 18th of June.

This event will follow a similar format as the last one.  As before, If you’d like to come along, please contact me at moc.spaelekamnull@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.

Attending

This post will be updated as people confirm attendance.  Here is a list of people currently planning to attend :

• 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
• Travis Cardwell (1331 on HN) - Technical and mathematical anti-specialist, with plans to found a new startup
• Profile: Founders of mobalean (http://www.mobalean.com) – a Tokyo based consultancy specializing in web development for Japanese phones.
  • Henri Servomaa (hts on HN)
  • Michael Reinsch (mreinsch on HN)
• Michael Ussher (ussher on HN) – Php web developer, Jamroom specialist.
• Jed Schmidt (tr4nslator on HN) – translator by day and javascripter by night, working this week on his javascript micro-framework
  (http://fabjs.org).
• 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
• Eduardo Gonzalez (wmeddie on hn) – Ex-Freelancer and newbie salary-man.
• Stuart Woodward (stuartcw on HN) – Working in IT in Japan since 1989. Thinking in Python since 1997.
• Aaron Foo (pheon on HN) – Curator of bits.
• Richard Roberts (RichardInJapan on HN) - founder of RecMan Software.
• 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.
• Christian Van der Henst S. (cvander on HN) – Director of Maestros del web, a Web design Community for Latin America and Spain
• Emanuel Schattauer (emanuer on HN) – Founder of the site http://testranking.com
• Bjoern Rennhak (Bjoern on HN) – PhD student (Computer Vision and Robotics, University of Tokyo) currently in the process of creating his own startup
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• Chris Mina (cmina on HN) – Civil engineer, amateur programmer, web developer, social network researcher and fresh “sarariman”.
• Ed Kuiters (edkuiters on HN) – Manager SeaNect, software for collaborative maritime maintenance.
• Thomas Raleigh (T-R on HN) – A recent Computer Science graduate with an interest in startups and entrepreneurship
• Don Werve (donw on HN) - Co-founder of Mad Wombat Software, and hacker of things Ruby, Lisp, and C.
• Jason Ball (gpj on HN) – Australian, living in Tokyo for 7years, open to help and always ‘Connecting GoodPeople’.
• John Freddy Vega Forero (freddier on HN) – Founder of Cristalab.com, a community of Web development & Rich Internet Applications for Latin America.

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

Venue

Once again, 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.

Food and Drinks

We will also be organising a caterer to provide everyone with food and drinks.

Make Sure To Register

We don’t want to have to turn away people who have not registered, so 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.  There will be a 2,500 yen fee to cover the food and drinks.

Hope to see you there!

Jason