Hackernest Toronto Monthly Tech Social

This is a casual, social group for web/software/hardware/media/journalism technologists to come together, mingle, and perhaps find a partner in crime or two.

When: Hackernest socials run on the last Monday of every month at 8PM

Format: Ultra casual. Hang around, introduce yourself, chat about tech/what you're up to, plot to take over the world, etc.

Rough schedule:

8PM - show up, socialize, relax

9PM - 5 minute demos/presentations from folks who've emailed me beforehand

9:30PM - "find a co-founder" matching time! (this is a new thing and untested, let's see how it goes... basically, if you have a startup you'd like to do and need a cofounder, you pitch the group for 1 minute [will be timed] and anyone interested comes to talk to you after the pitches).

Where: The Marketcrashers Hackernest
231 Wallace Avenue
Toronto, ON M6H 1V5

3 minute walk from Lansdowne TTC subway station
5 minute walk from Bloor GO train station
easy parking

<*Note: $5 is suggested donation and voluntary; feel free to shell out $9309482 if you really want to>

At any given Hackernest meetup, you may find people who are:

curious about developing on Ruby on Rails, but far too attached to Cake PHP to ever take the plunge looking for a tech/entrepreneur/new business story to cover Objective-C experts who secretly hate themselves for working on iPhones/iPads/Apple products looking to recruit a 5th or 6th engineer for their venture-funded TORONTO-BASED tech startup (no, seriously, it's true - these actually do exist; I happen to be part of one) looking to write articles/stories about the obscure/interesting/hilarious hacks you've pulled off totally oblivious and just wandered in because they heard there was booze (!?) building a top-secret app out of their basement that's going to change the way the world does X scrambling to find a partner to work with on a well-paying contract that's just a wee bit too much workload for the anticipated deadline heroes because they're part of the burgeoning community that will reverse Toronto's brain-drain ...incredibly talented, smart, entrepreneurial, and absolutely dangerous to the status quo

Chances are, you'll fit right in if you're a(n):

web developer software developer web designer network administrator database administrator systems administrator front-end designer/developer programmer coder engineer (electrical, computer) tech enthusiast tech/entrepreneur-oriented media/journalist really, really obsessive/compulsive blogger/Tweeter recruiter looking to poach PHP/Ruby/Python/Java developers for your team/firm internet entrepreneur mobile developer search engine optimization (SEO) professional software/hardware hacker/h4ck3r technical writer/project manager/business analyst 1337 individual ...and aren't a douchebag. <3

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