I'm generally not envious of people living in the bay area, but these sorts of events do sound very cool.

Anyone want to have a HN BBQ here in Padova, Italy?:-) I'll supply the wine - my mother in law works at a high school where they sell it by the liter. Yeah, you read that right:

http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2008/09/23/winemaking-scho...

Anyway, they sell really good fresh meat too, so, seriously, anyone stops by this area of Italy, I'd be happy to get out the grill.

I'm thinking about setting up an HN events site to help HN readers organize something like this. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=568903

Isn't there some place where these meetings can be arranged? Italy is a bit out of my way, but I'd be quite interested in one in The Netherlands, and I suspect others would be interested in a meeting near them.

I'm coming to italy this winter for vacation and I'm going to take you up on your offer Sir!

Ah, alas, I'll be on the road.

Been thinking of planning a hacker dinner in Mountain View in a few weeks though.

would love to hear details once that's finalized.

I wish there were more official YC events open to the public. I'd attend YConf :-)

Gonna try my best to be there. Someone's gotta represent investors :)

Am i the only idiot who can't figure out how to find an event (particularly this event) on anyvite? I just happen to be in the area today from Canada, thought it might be interesting to stop by.

Here is the link to the invitation:

http://anyvite.com/lld60cypag

Will be there!

That's a cool idea and offer - might be able to make it along!

sweet! bunch of entrep's and beer always great.

Sounds like fun -- I'll come crash the party.

does anyvite not allow you to view the entire guestlist? i even registered, to no avail.

Uhm, that is the entire guest list. It's an open invitation so anyone can sign themselves up for the event.

for example, it says there's 20 guests, but i could only view 9 (it's now 30/21). caching issue?

All of those (+numbers) next to guest names means that they are bringing additional people, which is added into the tally of total guests.

Be there soon, just landed in SF.

We'll be there. (DailyBooth.com)