Back when I did it before the pandemic I got in contact with a lot of interesting people through local (Sth-Swe) meetup groups centered around both programming

Back when I did it before the pandemic I got in contact with a lot of interesting people through local (Sth-Swe) meetup groups centered around both programming languages and entrepreneurship. Sadly those seems to have kinda fizzled out (but are kinda getting new tracation slowly), no idea if this is feasible in less populated places though.