This time last year, I was invited to join a newly created group for Nerdfighters based in London. One year on I found myself standing in the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, with about 30ish other Nerdfighters celebrating the groups one year anniversary.
Its very strange to think that when I joined this group a year ago, on the first day there was about 20 odd people in the group and as of yesterday there are now 700! For the first few months the group held small monthly gatherings at the museum and that was about it, and now there are two monthly gatherings, a monthly book club, and often another one or two other member organised events each month.
This once small obscure group that was hidden away in a small part of the internet now has new members joining everyday, awesome people commenting, sharing things, and chatting away all the time, and has become a place where us internet people can go, to find other like minded people and have somewhat of a safe haven to just do what we want to do.
Personally as I have been part of the group from its inception way back last year, I have been lucky enough to see all of these fantastic changes occur throughout this year. Furthermore as I have also been hugely lucky to have been an admin of this group, I have also been able to see all of the behind the scenes type decisions that have further helped to grow and shape the group.
The most important thing about this group, and why we are so pleased that it is still a thing is because of how much it seems to have helped people and still does. I know first hand how much I have changed due to being a part of it and we want to keep growing and improving so we can continue to do that for others too.
Now that we have reached this landmark, we immediately began to think about the future, we should do next and what year two of the group will bring. Its changed so much more then we could have ever imagined, so its even harder to imagine what it'll be like at the end of its second year.
Hopefully come this time next year I will be here writing another post (hopefully in a more eloquently and coherent way) about how the group has grown even more and about all the new things we have done since.
