Meetups are when people who know each other from MetaFilter get together in real life. The meetings are usually pretty informal, and happen all over the world. Often these meetings are heavily photographed. There is a special MetaTalk category for meetups and they're listed in the sidebar on MetaTalk.

Meetup threads stay open for six months so that people can use the same Meetup thread for posting links to photos of the meetup or follow-up comments. There is a feature in Meetup threads that allows users to link to photos of meetups. When this option is used a little icon of a photograph shows up next to the meetup location in the MeTa sidebar.
(tags: meetups photos metatalk meta ) April 20, 2006 - back to questions