# AMEA community meetup (EVERYONE welcome!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Core Contributors\ **Tags:** meetup\ **Created:** [January 2, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042 "2023-01-02T09:18:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/jill/32/3188_2.png) [@jill](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/jill)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/1 "2023-01-02T09:18:18Z")
Hi everybody! 👋 I am (finally) following in the footsteps of the sensational @sarina by scheduling an AMEA community meetup. Like the [the last AMEA meetup](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/25-may-0700-utc-amea-meetup-everyone-welcome/7195), this one is at [0700 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Open+edX+AMEA+Community+Meetup&iso=20230112T07&p1=1440&ah=1) (and if that time makes your eyes water, then you’ll understand why we who occupy the other half of the world need our own meetups! 😁 ). # [Google calendar invite](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MHVqc2RlN2UxOHExc2IwbGh0cGg4ODVmOGQgZWR4Lm9yZ19hanZtbW0zYzk4bXVraGJuczU4djAwc3FtNEBn&tmsrc=edx.org_ajvmmm3c98mukhbns58v00sqm4%40group.calendar.google.com) [Zoom link](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87876349639) [0700 Thu 12 Jan 2023 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Open+edX+AMEA+Community+Meetup&iso=20230112T07&p1=1440&ah=1) I’ve invited everyone off the [current CC list](https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3156344833/Core+Contributors+to+the+Open+edX+Project) who I suspect is in a favourable timezone. But I’ve surely missed people, and absolutely everyone is welcome to attend, so please add yourself in and come along! # Agenda In the spirit of the first meet-up, we’ll keep it simple, and discuss: - Brief introductions - name, location, your area of focus in Open edX - What have/will/should I submit as a conference talk or suggestion for the upcoming [Open edX Conference 2023](https://con.openedx.org/) in Boston? The [call for proposals is here](https://sessionize.com/2023-open-edx-conference), and [submissions are **due 11:59 PM Mon 23 Jan 2023 UTC-0400**](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Open+edX+2023+Conference+proposals+due&iso=20230123T2359&p1=43). - What did you do with Open edX in 2022? - What do you have planned for Open edX in 2023? Eveyone is also very welcome to reply on this thread with things to discuss during or after the meetup. We’ll [post notes in Confluence](https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/590184858/Online+Community+Meetups) if any interesting action items arise, and will post a link to the meeting recording afterwards. 🎆 🧨 🎉 🥳 🎇 Wishing everyone a great year ahead, and hope to see you at the meetup! 🎇 🕺 🕴 🤝🎆 ---
**Author:** ![jill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/jill/32/3188_2.png) [@jill](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/jill)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/2 "2023-01-02T09:39:30Z")
**EDIT** Apologies, I’ve moved the meeting to Thu 12 Jan, and updated the original post accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![sambapete](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/sambapete/32/4100_2.png) [@sambapete](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/sambapete)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/3 "2023-01-02T14:16:12Z")
Hi @jill I’ll put it in my agenda. No promises. I might attend if I am not in bed by then (2 AM - 3 AM) on the east coast of Canada. ---
**Author:** ![jill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/jill/32/3188_2.png) [@jill](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/jill)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 11:59pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/4 "2023-01-02T23:59:18Z")
> [@sambapete](#): > > I might attend if I am not in bed by then (2 AM - 3 AM) on the east coast of Canada. Oh my mistake @sambapete … I blanked and thought you were in Europe! No pressure 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nicole\_Kessler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/nicole_kessler/32/1114_2.png) [@Nicole\_Kessler](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Nicole_Kessler)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/5 "2023-01-12T08:22:55Z")
Thanks for organizing this meetup. It was great to get to know you and to chat with you. I created a slack-channel for our group. Feel free to join: #amea-community ---
**Author:** ![jill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/jill/32/3188_2.png) [@jill](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/jill)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/6 "2023-01-12T08:30:01Z")
We had a great meet-up! Thanks to everyone for joining: @Nicole_Kessler @ali_hugo @chintan @Maksim_Sokolskiy @omar @xitij2000 @farhaanbukhsh It was great to put faces with names, and we had some good discussions! Looking forward to chatting more on Discourse/Slack, and seeing as many of you as possible at the conference, hearing your talks and discussions there. - [meeting recording](https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/uqUNWkcfsRXpvmNR8Sq6_QRNnZulCP6pNhq5ELPcYcQCHIBlOAXH8qcbKFy7JqY6.FjOTN3hrjM2gZOH3) – will be available for 30 days. - Thanks to @Nicole_Kessler for creating a Slack group for us, so head over and join up! [#amea-community](https://join.slack.com/share/enQtNDYyODkxODc1MzMzMy01ZjcxZDFhM2JiMzExYjkzZGE5YTE2ZDJiZWVhOTJhNTExZjgyNTA3YzVhMWY2ZDNiOTg5MjhiYTU1N2ZjNjVl) - Thanks to @ali_hugo for putting her hand up to organize the next meeting, likely at a similar time, next month 🙌 : ---
**Author:** ![ali\_hugo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/ali_hugo/32/5284_2.png) [@ali\_hugo](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/ali_hugo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/7 "2023-01-18T13:09:27Z")
Hi everyone 👋 Weren’t able to attend the last AMEA meetup? No sweat - the next one’s coming up next month! We’ll be meeting at [07:00 UTC on Thursday 16 Feb](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Open+edX+AMEA+Community+Meetup&iso=20230216T07&p1=1440&ah=1). Details to follow… P.s. @jill Thanks for your stellar organisational skills for the previous meetup. Big shoes to fill! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dean](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/dean/32/4787_2.png) [@Dean](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Dean)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/8 "2023-01-19T09:07:47Z")
Sorry I missed the first one 🫠 ---
**Author:** ![ali\_hugo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/ali_hugo/32/5284_2.png) [@ali\_hugo](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/ali_hugo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/9 "2023-02-08T15:58:34Z")
Hello! 👋 It’s almost time for the next AMEA (Africa, Middle East, Asia/Australia) community meetup. So if you find yourself anywhere east of Senegal and west of New Zealand on **16 Feb** , please join in! The meetup is a nice way for community members to get together and chat about anything and everything _Open edX_ …or just to get to know one another a bit better 🙂 . # [Google calendar invite](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NWppOWJ0cTdrNTRzM2tpYnA5a28ydjdzNDggYWxpQG9wZW5jcmFmdC5jb20&tmsrc=ali%40opencraft.com) - [Zoom link](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87247984405) - [07:00 UTC on Thurs 16 Feb](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?ah=1%29&iso=20230216T07&msg=Open+edX+AMEA+Community+Meetup&p1=1440) Anybody and everybody is welcome to attend, so please spread the word! I’ve invited everyone from the previous meetup’s invite, but I’m sure there are more community members that would like to attend. If you know of anyone, please give them a holler 📣 (and send them a link to this post). # Agenda I’ve added a few items to the agenda below, but would love to hear your suggestions! Please ping me on this thread if you have any ideas for discussion points. I’m all ears. - **Lightning intros** Your name, location, and your connection to Open edX - [**Open edX Conference 2023**](https://con.openedx.org/) Are you attending the conference, either in-person or online? What are you hoping to gain/learn/experience? - **Help from the community** Could you do with some help from the community (ideas, reviews, collaboration etc) on current or future projects? - …anything else you’d like to discuss? Hope to see you at the meetup! 🚀 ---
**Author:** ![Cassie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/cassie/32/6843_2.png) [@Cassie](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Cassie)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/10 "2023-02-15T10:16:07Z")
Looking forward to the meetup tomorrow 🙂 See you there @ali_hugo ---
**Author:** ![ali\_hugo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/ali_hugo/32/5284_2.png) [@ali\_hugo](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/ali_hugo)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/11 "2023-02-16T09:18:29Z")
@chintan @jill @farhaanbukhsh @Cassie Thanks for a great meet-up! 🙂 It was so good to get to know you all a bit better, and to hear about what you’re working on at the moment. Here’s the [meeting recording](https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/Gwkr89_CUydVotgruucSQyhW7dnUgou8FLhnNs9oJCcU5PvJV0eE7M30kzP8vcfu.p7FMjFxxiKf9jGTN?startTime=1676531230000) for those of you who couldn’t attend (it’ll be available for 30 days). Thanks to @farhaanbukhsh for offering to organize next month’s meet-up 👏. Hope to see you all then! ---
**Author:** ![farhaanbukhsh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/farhaanbukhsh/32/1503_2.png) [@farhaanbukhsh](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/farhaanbukhsh)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/12 "2023-05-04T13:51:21Z")
Hello! 👋 It’s almost time for the next AMEA (Africa, Middle East, Asia/Australia) community meetup. So if you find yourself anywhere east of Senegal and west of New Zealand on **17 May** , please join in! The meetup is a nice way for community members to get together and chat about anything and everything _Open edX_ …or just to get to know one another a bit better 🙂 . # [Google calendar invite](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=OTA2cHI1NmdtcTkzZHVydG12ZTg4Y28yM3MgZmFyaGFhbkBvcGVuY3JhZnQuY29t&tmsrc=farhaan%40opencraft.com) - [Zoom link](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83800358136) - [07:00 UTC on Wed 17th May](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=AMEA+community+meetup+%28EVERYONE+welcome%21%29&iso=20230517T07&p1=1440&ah=1) Anybody and everybody is welcome to attend, so please spread the word! I’ve invited everyone from the previous meetup’s invite, but I’m sure there are more community members that would like to attend. If you know of anyone, please give them a holler 📣 (and send them a link to this post). # Agenda I’ve added a few items to the agenda below, but would love to hear your suggestions! Please ping me on this thread if you have any ideas for discussion points. I’m all ears. - **Lightning intros** Your name, location, and your connection to Open edX - [**Open edX Conference 2023**](https://con.openedx.org/) Post conference discussion, who all did you meet? Interesting insights from the talks. - **Help from the community** Could you do with some help from the community (ideas, reviews, collaboration etc) on current or future projects? - …anything else you’d like to discuss? Hope to see you at the meetup! 🚀 ---
**Author:** ![farhaanbukhsh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/farhaanbukhsh/32/1503_2.png) [@farhaanbukhsh](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/farhaanbukhsh)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/13 "2023-05-19T07:41:47Z")
It was me and @jill who attended the meetup and ended up having a fantastic conversation about everything. We(me and @jill) nominated @Cassie to organize the next meet-up (tag 🏃‍♂️, you are it !) 😂 Kidding, we thought you will be interested to do that let me know if this doesn’t work. Hope more people will be able to attend the next one. ---
**Author:** ![Cassie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/cassie/32/6843_2.png) [@Cassie](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Cassie)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/14 "2023-05-19T08:31:18Z")
Hahaha @farhaanbukhsh and @jill! I’m happy to organise the next meetup. Sorry I couldn’t attend. Glad you and Jill could have a little heart to heart 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cassie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/cassie/32/6843_2.png) [@Cassie](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Cassie)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/15 "2023-05-30T10:56:17Z")
Hi everyone 👋 The next AMEA Meetup will be [07:00 UTC on Thursday 29 June](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Open+edX+AMEA+Community+Meetup&iso=20230629T07&p1=1440&ah=1). ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/openedx/original/2X/a/a6ae1841c6b705f414e26c1957fac525b4ee957d.gif) Details to follow… ---
**Author:** ![jill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/jill/32/3188_2.png) [@jill](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/jill)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 11:32pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/16 "2023-05-30T23:32:10Z")
Yay!! Thank you @Cassie 😄 ---
**Author:** ![chintan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/chintan/32/52_2.png) [@chintan](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/chintan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2023, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/17 "2023-05-31T07:59:48Z")
I am in @Cassie ---
**Author:** ![Cassie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/cassie/32/6843_2.png) [@Cassie](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Cassie)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/18 "2023-06-08T10:56:30Z")
Hi everyone! 🎉 Our next AMEA (Africa, Middle East, Asia/Australia) community meetup is on the **29th of June 2023**. The meetup lets community members connect and chat all things _Open edX_ 🙌 # [Google calendar invite](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NTVzb242ZjZlZHZqY2pyM29tMXNmY2g4bmcgYXVzY2FxYnJ2YzB1YXRrNmU3MTI2NjE0a2tAZw&tmsrc=auscaqbrvc0uatk6e7126614kk%40group.calendar.google.com) - [Zoom Link](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88002694212) - [07:00 UTC on Thurs 29 June, 2023](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Open+edX+AMEA+Community+Meetup&iso=20230629T07&p1=1440&ah=1) I can’t wait to see your faces 🙂 I’ve invited everyone in the previous meetup’s invite, but if you know of anyone who’d like to attend ping me on Slack with their email address. Everyone is invited! # Agenda I’ve added a few items to the agenda below, but would love to hear your suggestions! - **Lightning intros** - **What are you working on right now?** Chat to the community about it, or better yet demo it! - **Are you involved in any [Working Groups](https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3707371565/Active+Working+Groups)?** - **Help from the community** Could you do with some help from the community (ideas, reviews, collaboration etc) on current or future projects? - …anything else you’d like to discuss? Hope to see you at the meetup! 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Cassie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/cassie/32/6843_2.png) [@Cassie](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Cassie)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/19 "2023-06-28T07:13:21Z")
Hope to see you all [tomorrow](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/18) 🙂 Everyone welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Cassie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/cassie/32/6843_2.png) [@Cassie](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Cassie)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042/20 "2023-06-29T07:26:09Z")
Hi everyone, @jill and I had a lovely catch up in the AMEA call 🙂 Since no one really attends these meet ups, we thought it might be best to put them on the back burner for now. We can always resurrect them if there is interest again 🙌 If anyone has any alternative ideas though, please post in this thread! [Next page](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/amea-community-meetup-everyone-welcome/9042.md?page=2)