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17−*Urbit is launching a series of community events, the first of which is a developer call taking place on Thursday, November 5 at 9am PT. Read on for all of the details.*
17+*TL;DR: Urbit is launching a series of community events, the first of which is a developer call taking place on Thursday, November 5 at 9am PT. [Sign up here](https://www.meetup.com/urbit-sf/events/274279522/), and read on for all of the details.*
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21−If you’re familiar with the project, you’ve probably noticed that Urbit folks talk a lot about the fact that [Urbit is for communities](https://urbit.org/blog/urbit-is-for-communities/). This is central to what Urbiters believe: Urbit is a platform that any group of people should be able to use to build, communicate, and transact in precisely the way that makes sense to them. Today, Urbit is already capable of facilitating many of these activities, and it’s already a big part of the daily workflow for many people. I think we’re off to a pretty good start, and over time Urbit will become accessible to more communities.
21+If you’re familiar with the project, you’ve probably noticed that Urbit folks talk a lot about the fact that [Urbit is for communities](https://urbit.org/blog/urbit-is-for-communities/). This is central to what Urbiteers believe: Urbit is a platform that any group of people should be able to use to build, communicate, and transact in precisely the way that makes sense to them. Today, Urbit is already capable of facilitating many of these activities, and it’s already a big part of the daily workflow for many people. I think we’re off to a pretty good start, and over time Urbit will become accessible to more communities.
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2323Something we tend to talk less about is the fact that Urbit itself is also a community. If you’ve spent any amount of time hanging out in Landscape in the Urbit Community group, you already know this—but getting to know the community takes time and effort.
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2929We lead with technology because it’s what we’re good at and because it’s easier to write about. But the social side of Urbit is no less important. Since so many of us are working on and contributing to Urbit in order to solve our own problems, and since we’re dogfooding as we go, you could define Urbit as the minimal technological infrastructure needed to sustain the Urbit community. It’s circular, but it’s as good a definition of Urbit as you’re likely to find. For this reason, you can’t really understand Urbit without some degree of exposure to the cultural knowledge of its community. When the Urbit community did fit in a single room together, transmitting cultural knowledge was easy and happened over pizza and beer. As the number and diversity of Urbit stakeholders continue to grow, we need to find ways to scale the transmission of this cultural knowledge.
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31−One way that seems to work well is getting everyone together once in a while for events. Over the last few years, I and others in the community have collectively attended hundreds of community events, virtually and in person around the world, from small developer chats to massive, global developer conferences with thousands of attendees. Urbit has even hosted a few of our own.
31+One way that seems to work well is getting everyone together once in a while for events. Over the last few years, I and others in the community have collectively attended hundreds of community events, virtually and in person around the world, from small developer chats to massive, global developer conferences with thousands of attendees. Urbit has even hosted [a few of our own](https://www.meetup.com/urbit-sf/).
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3333As a newcomer to the Urbit community I recently found myself seeking exposure to cultural knowledge. I know from experience attending and organizing events in other communities that regular events are a good way of making this knowledge more accessible, and of helping newcomers like myself onboard. I applied for [a grant](https://grants.urbit.org/proposals/1751024973) to bootstrap a new event series, and I’m excited to announce that this series is launching next week with the support of [urbit.org and the grants program](https://urbit.org/blog/first-steps-towards-urbit-org/).
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5151Tlon could no longer catalog the Urbit community even if it wanted to. This is a good thing. As Tlon [has also said](https://urbit.org/blog/hosting-the-future/), it’s natural that Tlon and Urbit drift apart a bit over time. Just as Urbit itself is self-hosted, so the community, over time, should become self-hosting: it should play a more active role in shaping the future of the project. A community-run event series can be an important catalyst for this trend. I’m looking forward to the first event, and I hope to see you there, and at many events to come.
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55+*Sign up to attend [the first event](https://www.meetup.com/urbit-sf/), and join the channels called “Events Series” on Landscape in the Urbit Community group to get involved.*