At the beginning of 2020, when Technical.ly planned to focus one month of reporting on community building, we didn’t realize that meetups — one of the core ways Philly’s tech community gets together to learn, network and share ideas about the field — would be driven to virtual-only events by a pandemic. Nevertheless, it’s the only option for the time being.

But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing, says Domitrius Clark, a Philly-based advocate engineer for California-based SaaS tech company Cloudinary. Clark has worked at machineQ, Guru and Red Queen Gaming, and about two years ago, became an organizer of Reactadelphia, Philly’s ReactJS meetup. (He also made our list of 2019 RealLIST Engineers.)

Since Reactadelphia’s inception, it’s been both an in-person meetup and a community that existed online, Clark said. That’s for a few reasons, namely that it’s more accessible to folks who can’t make an every-third-Tuesday event, and it allows the group to broaden its speaker base to folks outside of the Philadelphia area.

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