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title="Local Meetups"
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mediatype="struct"
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conference="seattle-2022"
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date="2022-11-16T12:00:00-08:00"
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description="Handmade meetups around the world"
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thumbnail=""
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[[videos]]
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title="Memory Strategies"
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embed="https://player.vimeo.com/video/774890907"
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service="vimeo"
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download_link="https://player.vimeo.com/progressive_redirect/playback/774890907/rendition/720p/file.mp4?loc=external&oauth2_token_id=1777364455&signature=3c443137144bf46966f5607ab00f818dfa5f98e1ac7643e62160f55e0bb27792"
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[[speakers]]
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name="Abner Coimbre"
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bio=""
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image=""
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[Prev](/operation2030/structure/80-20) | [Contents](/operation2030) | [Next](/operation2030/structure/conferences)
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**meetup.com but handmade**
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We’re building a self-hosted [alternative](https://handmadecities.com/meetups) to meetup.com, though it’s still in its early stages.
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Right now, our meetup hosts use a command-line app developed by Abner and the wider community: *Meetup Invite 2000*. It’s user-friendly, packed with features, and generally works like this: you feed it a Markdown file, and it sends out a polished email to all meetup subscribers.
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When someone subscribes to notifications on the [Meetup](/meetups) page, the host for that city automatically sees it in their command-line tool. Hosts can also export their mailing list whenever; if they decide to part ways with Handmade Cities they can take their current audience with them.
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In the future, we plan to build a web dashboard to complement Meetup Invite 2000 (we already have a basic prototype.) For now, we’ve lucked out because our meetup hosts know their way around terminals. Which leads us to one final observation.
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In early 2025 Abner launched the closed beta for Terminal Click (see [Appendix](/operation2030/appendix/terminal-click) for why it's relevant). Around that same time we started meetups in Tokyo, Japan—a milestone that’s been a long time coming. It was very rewarding to see the our host, Migue-san, use a terminal emulator written by us to invoke Meetup Invite 2000 also written by us:
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Dogfooding what we preach is essential to achieve [Self-Hosting for All](/operation2030/directives/self-hosting-for-all).
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