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Today we’re pleased to announce a new addition to the jQuery community: jQuery Meetups. Over the past year we’ve been watching a number of local jQuery meetups spring up and we wanted to try and provide a good home for them.

We talked with a number of people behind existing jQuery meetup groups and asked them what resources they wanted. Overwhelmingly we heard that they wanted a way to centralize all the planning and discussion around their meetup groups and have a way to get more attention to their groups.

After some research and work we’ve come up with something that should suit the community well:

We looked at a number of potential solutions and eventually went with Ning. Ning provides an easy way to get social communities up and running all while putting very little burden on the jQuery team as maintainers. The Ning team was very gracious and provided us with all the resources that we needed to get it up and running. There exist capabilities for creating meetup groups, having centralized group discussions, and planning out future meetups.

For example, here’s a sample meetup:

As a project we want to try and help local jQuery meetup groups grow and flourish: Being able to talk and network with fellow jQuery users can be a huge boon to development. For now we want to watch and see how the groups take off and eventually try to provide more resources to them (either in the way of more web resources or physical items like pizza, books, t-shirts, etc.). We’d love to get your feedback on this so if you have any questions or suggestions please let us know over in the forums.

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