Last year we participated in the global hackathon organized by Koding.com at HackSummit. We really had a great time there and we wanted to participate this year as well, but sadly they did not continue with the event. It's a big shame.

We have long sought to bring the right people into Around 25 and while most of our decisions were great some were not as inspired. It's hard to understand why some people can click from day one and make an existing team stronger and why others with similar work ethic and great personality can push it towards the ground.

On December 27th we celebrated the 10 year anniversary of Around 25. Back in 2005 Paul and I were two college freshmen moving to Cluj from a small town 60 km away. We were always passionate about Computer Science even before we even had our first PC. It's this common interest that helped us become best friends in the first place and have similar goals throughout our lives.

When we started the AngularJs Cluj Meetup we wanted to improve our knowledge of a framework we loved using every day by meeting other people with similar interests and sharing our knowledge with those that are just starting out.