BSD Meetup in London?

From: Polarian <polarian_at_polarian.dev>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:07:31 UTC
Good evening,

I apologise, this is slightly off topic but also kinda not? It is a
question, and it is freebsd, and I couldn't really find a better place
to ask it so I choose to stick it here (please don't moderate me :P)

I have been discussing Linux meetups a lot as a substitute for BSD as
there is no BUGs (BSD User Groups) left in the UK (at least none that I
can find publicly). Most LUGs are dead as well in the UK, and
hackerspaces have become engineering focused and pretty much abandoned
open source/Linux/BSD, which leaves a whole lot of nothing.

Recently, one of the LUGs I follow had a user try to revive meetups
there. I thought if they could do it, why not try for BSD too?

There used to be a UK FreeBSD mailing list, however the domain is now
gone and the list disappeared without any warning, I was originally
going to ask this there, but due to lack of better list to stick it on,
I have come here.

Is anyone interested in attempting a BSD meetup somewhere in London,
likely a pub (open to suggestions) and see how it goes from there?

Feel free to offlist, XMPP is within the email signature, and my nick
is polarian on libera.chat and efnet.

Again, apologies if I stuck this in the wrong place, didn't know
anywhere better to ask.

Thank you,
-- 
Polarian
Jabber/XMPP: polarian@icebound.dev