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  • Introductions
  • Review of resources available for running virtual meetups
  • Observations on switch to virtual meetups
    • There have been a lot of positives:
      • General attendance at virtual meetups seems to be higher than in person meetups since anyone anywhere can join and not just people in the city where the event is happening
      • Members of groups in smaller cities or in parts of the world were there aren't a lot of Hyperledger community members are benefiting since they hadn't been able to organize many in person meetups because there weren't many speakers nearby, but now there are a lot of meetups they can join
      • Regional cooperation is happening more – the Hyperledger India Chapter had started this trend last year with their two national e-meetups and now we're seeing other regions doing the same sort of coordination, such as the recent Latin America regional meetup
    • There are some challenges too:
      • I think the main challenge is that meetups can now conflict in a way they couldn't before.  If two in person meetups were happening in different cities that didn't matter since there were two different groups of people who could go to each, but now if there are two virtual meetups happening at the same time there is one audience who needs to choose which to go to.
      • However, not all meetups conflict – one meetup in Spanish and one in English held at the same time would be appealing to two different audiences.  And time zones matter too – a meetup in an APAC friendly time zone is appealing to a different audience than meetups in AMEA and North and South American time zones
    • Other observations from your experience running and/or attending virtual meetups?
  • Discussion of how we want to work together on virtual Hyperledger meetups
  • Other topics?