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I am a software engineer in the Bay Area. Of my friends, few are engineers whom I can geek-out or talk shop with. Hackathons seemed like a potentially good way to do it, but this article highlights the reasons I haven't been attending them: I just want to meet some people, hack on something fun, and maybe make some friends. I don't want to start a business, and I don't care about winning a prize. I don't really want to stay up all night, either - I have a wife, and other things to do.

I thought maybe Weekend Hacker would be fun, but that seems to be full of people looking for help with their startup idea. Most of them aren't engineers. Most of the Meetups I've been to (or hosted) are full of people trying to get me interested in their startup, or recruit me. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't see myself having a beer on the weekend with any of those folks.

So, how do people do it? It's kinda happening slowly over time, through friends and partners of friends, but I wouldn't know how to actively speed it up.