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Northern Virginia GitHub Drinkup

GitHub is hosting a drinkup in Fairfax, VA on Wednesday starting at 7pm. Come by and have a beer on us while enjoying great conversations with other NoVA hackers! Wednesday,…

Aman Gupta·@tmm1

October 11, 2011 | Updated May 13, 2021

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GitHub is hosting a drinkup in Fairfax, VA on Wednesday starting at 7pm. Come by and have a beer on us while enjoying great conversations with other NoVA hackers!

Wednesday, October 12, 2011
7pm
Dogfish Head Alehouse Fairfax (in the Greenbriar Shopping Center on Route 50)

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