: Irtiza Ali (He/Him), forum handle @aliartiza75, and GitLab @aliartiza75.
I am from Pakistan 
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I work as a DevOps and Integration Engineer at onebyte.
I use GitLab at work as well as for my personal projects.
I spend my time reading. travelling, contributing to opensource and writing articles
Mostly use twitter and online blogs.
Can we have montly online meetups for networking? Where we can share what we have learned in the past month? What do you guys think? 
@aliartiza75 Thanks for thinking about our meetups. The format for our virtual meetups (you can join the GitLab Virtual meetup group here) is typically a presentation followed by networking in breakout groups. It’s interesting to consider a meetup just for the networking element. I created an issue to discuss further. Feel free to add any other thoughts you might have to the issue.
I’m also working to schedule a monthly meeting for our GitLab Heroes to get to know each other better. I plan to include an invite to the first of those meetings in my next communication with the group. Hope you can join!
Thank you
@aliartiza75 nice to meet you! I love your suggestion because I think that networking / social events are a vital part of communities.
The meetup program that John mentioned is definitely a great start, and I have to admit a bit shamefully, that I have yet to attend one. 
I will though!
I hope to meet you (and others!) at an upcoming event 
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