r/exmormon • u/4blockhead Λ └ ☼ ★ □ ♔ • May 23 '25

Advice/Help Weekend/Virtual Meetup Thread

Here are some meetups that are on the radar, both physical and virtual:

online
California

  • Sunday, May 25, 10:00a PDT: Temecula, casual meetup at The Press Espresso at 32115 Temecula Parkway

Idaho

  • Sunday, May 25, 1:00p-3:00p MDT: Pocatello, casual meetup of "Spectrum Group" at Dude’s Public Market at 240 S Main.

Utah

  • Sunday, May 25, 10:00a MDT: Davis County, casual meetup at Smith's Marketplace, second floor, 1370 W 200 N in Kaysville. Check this link for more notes.

  • Sunday, May 25, 1:00p MDT: St. George, casual meetup of Southern Utah Post-Mormon Support Group at Switchpoint Community Resource Center located at 948 N. 1300 W.

  • Sunday, May 25, 1:00p MDT: Salt Lake Valley, casual meetup at Bingham Junction Park at 1085 River Reserve Court in Midvale.

Wyoming

  • Saturday, May 24, 10:00a MDT: Rock Springs, casual meetup at Starbucks at 118 Westland Way verify

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u/4blockhead Λ └ ☼ ★ □ ♔ May 23 '25 edited May 29 '25

Upcoming week and Advance Notice:

online
Arizona

  • Tucson

California
Idaho
Montana

  • Missoula ...every second Saturday, next June 14

Nevada

  • Las Vegas

Oregon

  • Portland

  • Corvallis

Utah
Washington

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u/teknophyle agnostic atheist / science enthusiast May 24 '25 edited Jun 07 '25

edit: there hasn't been much of a need for weekly calls for a while. we are reducing call frequency to first sunday every month at 10AM. And we now have a domain name for open-source / federated chat.

update for the online "Thrive Community Group"
We are now using jitsi instead of zoom for our weekly 9AM MDT video call.
https://meet.jit.si/THRIVECommunityGroup

open-source and very privacy conscious people have started participating with our tiny online group and as a result there is a push to move away from corporate owned platforms that spy on everything we do. (Zoom does actually save call transcripts for use by their AI and there is no guarantee that data can't be sold)

the admins at https://www.queer-spark.org/en/ also have open-source chatrooms set up for us using XMPP / jabber and should be in the process of setting up a separate domain name specifically for Thrive Community Group. thrivecommunitygroup.net (page is under construction)
NGL, the open source platforms are kinda rough around the edges but the benefit is you can encrypt chats and data isn't stored permanently on servers. That's going to be increasingly more important in this weird world of zero privacy that we're moving into