@julian It's a bit different from "networking" in that when we first meet in person, most of us have already had working relationships with each other for a long time. Even if we haven't ever seen each other's faces. But we have a concept of each other from the quality of bug reports or PRs or whatever.It's more like we've all worked as part of the same "Fediverse Inc." multinational for some years, except there is no "Fediverse Inc" corporation nor a CEO.