Fancy an evening networking with your peers, beer, food, trivia and prizes? Thanks to the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 team, we're hosting a one-off Lifehacker meetup for IT professionals in Sydney on Thursday November 15.

Alas, the reader meetups are over! But we had a great time meeting Perth Lifehacker readers last night, and everyone can still enter our competition to win a Nokia Lumia 710 phone.

Let the meetups continue. After Brisbane and Sydney last week, thanks to Windows Azure it was the turn of Melbourne Lifehacker readers to demonstrate their developer chops and win some prizes.

We've shown you pictures of our Lifehacker meetups in Brisbane and Sydney, but this is a unique view of the Brisbane experience. Reader and attendee Alexander Chen captured the event on a time lapse camera.

Our fortnight of meetups thanks to Windows Azure continues, and last night was Sydney's turn. We've got winners, we've got ludicrous captions.

Our first 2012 reader meetup thanks to Windows Azure took place in Brisbane last night, and it was a roaring success. Check out our photo gallery of the evening with all the news and all the winners.

It's all go with our meetups and competitions! Team Lifehacker has arrived in Brisbane ahead of tonight's event, and we also have the first winner of a Nokia Lumia 710 in our Windows Azure challenge.

Our first Windows Azure Lifehacker meetup takes place Tuesday night in Brisbane, and we can't wait! If you're a developer and you haven't signed up for the event in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, there's still time; hit our original post for more details. And if you can't come along, you can still enter our competition to win one of four Nokia Lumia 710 Windows 7 phones.

We staged some great Lifehacker reader meetups last year, and everyone has been asking if they'll happen again. And the answer is YES! Thanks once again to the Windows Azure team at Microsoft, we're offering our readers with a developer bent the chance to socialise, drink beer, take part in trivia and win some cool prizes.