Hello from Barcelona! I understand that Barcelona is a much bigger city with an even bigger tech community but given that we catalans are incredibly closed whe

Hello from Barcelona! I understand that Barcelona is a much bigger city with an even bigger tech community but given that we catalans are incredibly closed when it comes to our circles of friends I think I can share a couple of things that are working out here. - We have a Slack for tech people in the city. This is really bringing the community together, even when the used techs are different. We used to have (and still) different slacks by tech / meetup community etc but we are slowly bringing them together. - Some of the events/meetups allow people to have 1min presentations on what they do/need etc. Because most of the events involve beer in the end (not only the techie ones!) these 1min intros serve as a good excuse to break the ice when the beer time comes. It's way easier to start a convo with a stranger if you have this 1min of info than if you've got nothing. "Heyyy!! So you are doing a drone that brings medicines to old people, this is great I've been working on a drone that..." You get what I mean. - It is incredibly important that the "drinks/networking" take part on the same place where the events are held. I think people is shy in general in these types of events, especially techies, but obviously have a lot to talk about and share, so I think we just need to find ways of sparking conversations.