Without doubt, the best Shapeways community events are our Meetups. Every time we attend one, we meet great people, hear inspiring stories and make new friends. People are often surprised to find fellow community members in their town and stay in touch.
Update: we now have meetups in 80 cities around the world! Come and join us for a night of 3D printing, design and socializing!
So far, we’ve had Meetups in cities all over the world, including New York, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Newcastle and of course Eindhoven (Shapeways’ birthplace!). We can’t be everywhere all the time and we know you’re eager to share Shapeways with your friends so we’re excited to announce…
Shapeways Community World Meetup
This year, on Thursday February 28th, we will be hosting our first ever Shapeways Community World Meetup, and we need YOUR help to make it happen!
During the World Meetup, we will have as many local Meetups on the same day as possible, sharing pictures and videos with each other. We’ll be partying around the world!
Join a Meetup, or host one!
We now have meetups planned in almost 50 cities around the world. You will find Shapeways team members at the meetups in New York City, Amsterdam and Helsinki. Check out the list to see if your area is listed as well, and join! Don’t be afraid to leave a comment on the event page if you have a question or suggestion.
Is your city not listed yet? Then why not start your own meetup? It’s easy, head over to the Shapeways World Meetup page and search for your location. If there’s no meetup for your town yet, just add one so other people can join you and help you with organizing the event.
Also send an email to community@shapeways.com and tell us where you are! We’ll hook you up to other people in your area and give you the low down on hosting a meetup, no experience necessary, just a willingness to meet likeminded people. We will also send a box of samples and a Shapeways T-shirt to the largest meetup groups. If you have questions or suggestions about this event, please leave them on the forum
We look forward to hearing from you!
Bart and Natalia
Shapeways Community Team
I would be honoured to be able to help in anyway, the Shapeways meetup event in Chino Hills, California. My phone No: (removed), please call me and let me know how I may be able to help in any way.
Thanks, Best Redards,
Mr. Nur Ahmad
Hey Ahmad,
thanks! The best way to get started is by adding your event to the list on the Meetup page that we provided:
http://www.meetup.com/shapewayscommunity/
I have removed your phone number for privacy reasons.
Cheers,
Bart
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Hi Humberto,
there’s no meetup planned in Milan yet, but you can be the first 🙂 Even if you don’t want to host the meetup, you can just create the event and see if other people are interested in joining.
Cheers!
Bart
A meetup in Milan is on its way.. have a look at the meetup page for Milan to find more information.
Just launched yesterday, so please be patinent. The location in Milan is not decided yet as I need to know how many shapers want to be there.
Simone
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Hi Humberto,
there’s no meetup planned in Milan yet, but you can be the first 🙂 Even if you don’t want to host the meetup, you can just create the event and see if other people are interested in joining.
Cheers!
Bart
The World Meetup page lists February 27th as the date, and this blog specifies the date as February 28th. There seems to be a discrepancy. (I am interested in either date and will sign up when it’s cleared up).
Hi Rob,
yes, there’s a problem with the meetup page, but we’re working on getting that sorted out. The correct date is definitely the 28th! You can just go ahead and create the event and then update the date for now.
Thanks,
Bart
I’d like to attend the Meet Up event if there’s one in the San Francisco, California region?!?
Hey Tibor,
there sure is:
http://www.meetup.com/ShapewaysCommunity/San-Francisco-CA/867712/
There is only one member at this time, but I know for a fact that our community in SF is booming, so I expect it’ll fill up fast!
Cheers,
Bart
Haha. I just looked at the map, and I am the only member that lives in Alaska.
I had a quick peek in our database and found at least 70 people, especially around Anchorage and Fairbanks 🙂
It is stated that of course Eindhoven will have a meetup, because Shapeways is there!
But where is the Eindhoven community listed??? ……
Well if you would like I can create a meetup for Eindhoven as well 🙂
would you like to have it in the Eindhoven office or somewhere more central in the city?
Hola Barcelona!
http://www.meetup.com/ShapewaysCommunity/Barcelona-ES/-867572/
Hello from Chicago! I’m signed up for my first meetup and can’t wait! Let’s get some more Chicagoans. (and let’s get the date straightened out)
We were able to fix the date with some help from Meetup. Have fun!
Hi. what about Moscow?
Hi Nikola,
there is a meetup in Moscow, too:
http://www.meetup.com/ShapewaysCommunity/Moscow-RU/869132/
Enjoy!
Bart
Very excited about the Chicago Meetup! I will be spreading the word as much as possible. I assume that it is ok that non Shapeways members attend? Thanks for organizing this!
-John
Shalom 😉
What about Israel?
@John: absolutely! These meetups aren’t limited to Shapeways-only members.
@Urika: there’s a meetup planned in Qiryat Gat:
http://www.meetup.com/ShapewaysCommunity/Qiryat-Gat-IL/868082/
And of course you can still start your own event as well if you want!
Cheers,
Bart
Hi all!
Is there any specific topic for the 28th? I am just discovering Shapeways and I would like to know if thursday’s meetup is reserved to people having a minimum Shapeways experience?
Cheers
Hi, I’m in India and a 3D printing hobbyist but it seems there’s no meet-up in India. I’m in Pune, India and would have loved to attend one. Don’t mind even travelling to other city to attend in India.
Tapas Gupta.
We will be there in Amsterdam and on the spot we will create a meeting also in the Virtual World Second life and will be joined by a creator that made jewelry in this virtual world and print it out now through shapeways.
We hope all will work if the connection is right.
Looking forward!
Was held in Riyadh – Saudi Arabia. Just FYI =)