Introducing KCD Community Meetups - a podcast by Kent C. Dodds

https://kcd.im/meetups
Hey friends, sorry that I didn't get one of these recorded yesterday was
just busy I guess but today I want to tell you about this new thing that Iworked on this last few days called Meetups so you probably know what a
meetup is or like what we typically think of where people meet up and andtalk about a specific subject but I was intrigued by the app clubhouse
that's been hyping up recently and the just the idea of getting people
together to talk about things audibly and,I realized that like compoundsdoesn't do a whole lot more than what I have in my discord, but there are
some things that I can do with my bot to facilitate that sort of experiencefor people more frequently and so I decided to work on that and that's what
we're calling meetups and so meetups are like the the goal is to help
develop friendships within the community to make the world a more pleasantplace for all of us, so that's the basic idea, but what you can use meetups
for is basically boundless so long as you're following the code of conduct
you can.Talk about anything you could play a game together you could collaborate on
a solution like mob programming or you could practice a talk or you couldtalk about a movie or a book or give a demo of your work or chat about
world events or whatever else you could imagine and that's kind of the idea
is that it's totally open-ended in the KCD discord.
I have my office hours. I also live stream there and it kind of felt weirdbecause the KCD discord is more than just KCD it's there's so many people
in there in fact. I'm not even the one who's sending the most messages on
there anymore.Um and so it just felt kind of odd to have a special placefor me and not for everybody else and so now my office hours and my live
stuff are just meetups and anybody else in the whole community can do thatsame thing if they want to and just using the regular meetup command so I
just introduced it today.I just made a video that I'll link you to that you can go watch and see
kind of a demo of what meetups are and how the bot works with it and I'd
love for you to go try it if nothing else you can at least go and follow me.Using the follow me channel on discord so that you can be notified when I
start I start a meet up and you can join me whenever you're available it's
kind of fun and I hope you find it interesting and really I just want toconnect people especially during this time where we're not really as
connected we don't just like meet people randomly this hopefully can be a
place where we can connect more with humans so anyway.I hope that's helpful and I will see you all in the future goodbye.

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