@ireneista I mean... the (in person) Linux user groups, BSD user groups, etc. that use to be more of a thing, kinda filled this function for a while.
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@ireneista Like the one I was involved with for a while ranged from new people coming in for help getting started/help installing on their laptop (very occasionally someone would haul a whole desktop in), to people who'd been using it for years, trading software recommendations, sometimes working on code in that 'we're spending time together but don't fucking talk to me' sort of way, etc. etc. it covered kind of a wide range of social functions.
@ireneista I do not know if there is something really comperable now? Maybe some of the hackerspace things popping up? But in-person LUGs/BSDUGs seem to have declined pretty sharply
@ireneista Like the one I was involved with for a while ranged from new people coming in for help getting started/help installing on their laptop (very occasionally someone would haul a whole desktop in), to people who'd been using it for years, trading software recommendations, sometimes working on code in that 'we're spending time together but don't fucking talk to me' sort of way, etc. etc. it covered kind of a wide range of social functions.
