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+# Attending and organizing Emacs meetups
+Bhavin Gandhi (he/him, IRC: bhavin192,
+[@bhavin192@toots.dgplug.org](https://toots.dgplug.org/@bhavin192))
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+(You can select English or Spanish as the closed captions for this talk.)
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+Events like EmacsConf are a great place to meet Emacs users around the
+world. You get to learn about new ideas, workflows, packages, and make
+new friends as well :) What if I tell you that you can meet fellow Emacs
+users more frequently, that too in your region/time zone? Yes, meetup
+groups!
+
+In this talk, I will help you explore Emacs meetup groups of your
+interest. And cover how to attend meetups, how to stay updated with all
+the Emacs related events, and more.
+
+Organizing a meetup and setting up a platform for others is even more
+fun! I will cover how to easily get started with organizing meetup
+events as well.
+
+Outline:
+
+-   Why meetups?
+-   How to find nearby groups?
+-   Staying updated with events
+-   Organizing meetups
+-   My learnings from organizing meetup events
+
+## Links
+- [EmacsWiki: Usergroups](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Usergroups)
+- [Emacs calendar](https://emacslife.com/calendar/)
+- Slides: [meetups.org: rendered on
+  GitLab](https://gitlab.com/bhavin192/talks/-/blob/master/2022/emacsconf-2022/meetups.org),
+  [meetups.org:
+  raw](https://gitlab.com/bhavin192/talks/-/raw/master/2022/emacsconf-2022/meetups.org)
+# Discussion
+
+## Notes
+
+-   Anybody in NoVA (Viriginia area) interstesd in starting meetup?
+-   EuGE is Latin for "ah-ha"
+    - pronounced "huge"  
+- Thank you so much. Good talk.  
+- Thank you for promoting and informing about meetups. I think I am gonna look for  one. 
+- yay, quiliro's spanish subs now display in https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/meetups/
+- I have found that we needed at least 2 hours before any event and 2 hours after, besides the proparations.  You said that it takes 1 hour to organize.
+- Also, bhavin192 - thanks for the shout-out for M-x Research. I'm the organiser :D
+
+## Questions and answers
+
+-   Q:  Do you attend or organize a Emacs meetup?
+    -   A:
+-   Q:  Thoughts on physical meetups? 
+    -   A:
+-   Q: Any thoughts on hybrid meetups (physical wher most peopel are
+    plus stream it online)?
+    -   A:
+- Q: bhavin192 - I'm interested! Should we start by having an irc/matrix channel to discuss?
+  - IRC or Matrix for all the organizers. Hmm, sounds good as well. How about reusing #emacsconf? It is pretty much free during rest of the year.
+- How do you automate?
+- What is  ILUGC ?
+- could you share your slides? there were a few links and emails I couldn't get
+  - slides: https://gitlab.com/bhavin192/talks/-/blob/master/2022/emacsconf-2022/meetups.org
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