I joined a Ruby meetup a few years ago because I was working with Ruby on Rails, a web technology framework. I wanted to learn more about it and meet fellow practitioners. After a few months, I’d learned a lot, but better, I’d met interesting people. It was a sacrifice of a night every month, but it was worth it.
A few years after I joined, I volunteered to find speakers for this meetup, which gave me the opportunity to help the meetup organizers and reach out to prominent people in the Ruby community. At present, I don’t work with Ruby very much anymore, but I still attend and help because I love the network ...
