After working remotely for the last 2 years, I am never more certain that there is no substitute for some in person sessions, especially for creative disciplines.

In person fosters a certain spontaneity that leads to innovation, sense of direction and shared purpose that binds people and get projects going and builds momentum.

Meetups

In person meetups have always been important to me since I started out on the old chain. The best example of this is SteemHivefest that has been running for the last few years.

In addition to this annual gathering, there are regular meetups between friends, larger meetups with communities and of course all the virtual connections in places like Discord, Hive Chat or Open Chat on PeakD.

Monthly Hive Meetup Report

On the Old Chain I used to publish monthly listings of Meetups Globally to show growth and activity of communities on chain. This is the first such post for Hive, but you can see the format I am going for with some of my old posts
@eroche/steemit-meetups-in-november

Update January 2022

This is the first post for Hive, and it's quite labour intensive to analyse the data, so I will just cover meetups in the last month. This will be the format going forward.

This data largely is gathered based on posts in the #meetup tag but there are some other sources also used including @hivesql

Where were there meetups in the last month?

I am sure there were more that people didn't post about on Hive, but I would encourage the community to share in person public meetups of 2 or more Hive Users to show the strength and reach of Hive and use the #meetup tag

The the last month the following meetups were posted on Hive and are shown on the above map.

Author	Link	Location
@schmidi	@schmidi/happy-birthday-nadinee	Austria
@hivecreatorsday	@hivecreatorsday/nysqwgjj	Online
@starstrings01	@starstrings01/meetup-with-josediccus-and-kbanti-tomorrow	Nigeria
@robmojo	@robmojo/another-meetup-with-friends-from	Malaysia
@miraicastel	@miraicastel/swiss-hive-meet-up-bagbagbag	Switzerland
@gerel	@gerel/busy-day-on-thursday--3rd-batch-of-hive-ids-and-lanyard-done-cebu-bloggers-catching-up-over-coffee-	Philippines
@nbs.gmbh	@nbs.gmbh/hive-meetup-nurnberg-wir-sehen-uns-2022	Germany

If you didn't make any of these there are some more to look out for coming up and hopefully we will have more and more in person meetups in 2022. @themarkymark will we see a Hive Punks Meetup some time in 2022?

Where are there upcoming Meetups?

Please add any upcoming meetups in the comments and I look forward to reading about these in the coming month.

Analysis of Meetup Tag

• 28 Posts in the Last Month using this tag
• 18 Unique Authors

• The biggest payout posts went to @hivecreatorsday and @starstrings01.
• It's worth knowing community building events are usually rewarded well by the community on Hive when people post about them.

• This post is my daily contribution to a challenge by @dragosroua to "publish a meaningful post every day of January"
  Who's Up For A January Writing Streak?