Yes, depending on where you live. There are many such events on meetup.com. Although the pandemic shut down a lot of this stuff. The open source world also has

Yes, depending on where you live. There are many such events on meetup.com. Although the pandemic shut down a lot of this stuff. The open source world also has a lot of this spirit, although the "hacking together" is often virtual rather than in-person (although conferences provide a good venue for in-person meetups for people who are geographically distributed).