The Casual Global Meetups thread is for users to announce their locations and meet up with fellow community members. erlend_sh initiated the discussion by sharing a past meetup experience in Bali and inviting others to use the topic for their own announcements.
Upcoming meetups include erlend_sh in St. Petersburg, Russia from June 4-17 and joebuhlig in Woodstock, IL from July 20-21, where he’ll be attending the MacStock conference.
A few months ago I was working from Bali and half-way through my stay I realised @Johani (who was not yet working with us full-time) was there too! So of course we met up and had a great time talking about Discourse, volcano economics and why you really ought to wear a helmet when you drive a scooter in Bali. This opportunity could have easily slipped us by had we not exchanged locations by chance.
Going forward I’m gonna give a heads up whenever I’ll be someplace where a casual meetup might go down. Please feel free to use this topic for your own announcements as well.
This might be last minute at this point, but I’ll be at the MacStock conference the next couple days. Look me up if you’re there or shoot me a PM and we can try to connect.