Community is about togetherness.
Community is about acceptance.
The optics of the community has changed.
It has become agenda driven. It is more about selling than nurturing.
I got lucky that the 2006-07 Linux user group took me under their wings. I don’t know where I would have ended up now.
I made friends and mentors like Karunakar, Vivek, and others. Most are still part of life. The seed of open source and free software became the prime persona in life.
I sometimes wonder if I learned more from these meetups, open-source projects than going to college.
As I grew up, my career progressed. I became part of other communities like Ubuntu, OpenStack, Drupal, Minio, and others.