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Discussion on: What do you like about meetups?

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George

I currently volunteer in a large gaming community with a staff team that is about 250-300 of us all over the world. A lot of us tend to go to events all over the world for many different reasons, especially the insomnia gaming festival in Europe. I was nervous about meeting the staff and admin team for the first time, these are people I work with on a daily basis and me being a very awkward person in real I tend to be a little weird. Meeting the people I look up to on a daily basis for over 3 years now was amazing.

The meetups I tend to go to are primarily gaming but has a lot of developers there which I mostly attend for. The meetups I find are very interesting to meet the people that you work with, as well as meeting people from large companies such as corsair, razer, blizzard they were very nice people to meet, discussing development with some of them as well provided a lot of insight for me to what it's like to work in a large scaled company.