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To everyone who attended the Yahoo! Philippines Answers Community Meet Up last July 18, thank you so much for the exciting, enlightening, and fun evening!  To those who signified that they will come but for some reason wasn’t able to, we truly missed you!  To everyone that wasn’t able to come because they just couldn’t, it’s okay, we understand, and don’t worry, there are other opportunities to come.

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More than 30 people showed up at last week’s meet up and it’s interesting to see how varied the Answers community is.  There were new users to high level users (a number of Level 6 and someone high in the leaderboard), college students and working professionals, people who have just met for the first time and users who know each other already both online and offline (they’re the original YAPpers).  It was also a delight to see the reactions of people when they introduced their Answers ID (which is our only identity of them online plus their avatar) and the corresponding “ahhh, ikaw pala yan”, hehehe!

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The program started with some welcome remarks from yours truly and the other Yahoos that attended the event (thanks so much to Amos, Mitch, Jojo, Cris, Charlie and Jeremy!) followed by dinner (loved the pizza and the barbecue!).  After that we had a game called Answers Bingo which involved everyone going around asking questions and signatures from each other (congrats to Paul for finishing first!).  We also had the Wish List wherein we asked community members to share one feature that is not yet in Answers that they wish to have.  Thanks so much for all the ideas and feedback you shared, we will definitely go through the list and consider it when we plan for more features for Answers.  A couple of YAPpers also took the time to share their experiences in Answers, what they loved about it, how they met online and eventually offline afterwards, what they as a group have accomplished (the YAPpers held a Christmas party for street kids last year), and what they look forward to after that evening’s meet up.

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We all had a great time that evening and again, thanks so much to everyone who helped make it possible!  I certainly hope this will be the start of many more to come!  Actually I don’t have to say it because a day after the Friday meet up, some of the YAPpers had a mini meet up in Tagaytay.  How I wish I could have been there (had to go back home) but that just shows how it’s really up to the community if they want more meet ups to come.  So where will we have it next?  Cebu?  Davao?  You decide. 

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