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| <!-- <a href="https://gr8conf.eu/">GR8Conf EU 2020</a>--> |
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| <!-- <span class="location">Copenhagen, Denmark</span>--> |
| <!-- <span class="dates">June 2 - 4, 2020</span><p>Groovy, the Grails framework, and related technologies have seen astounding growth in interest and adoption over the past few years, and with good reason. GR8Conf is a series of conferences founded to spread the word worldwide. The 2018 GR8Conf Europe is celebrating its 10th year, and it's expected to be a blast. As in 2017 the conference had a DevOps day, this year DevOps topics will be mixed with the rest of the topics. GR8Conf is an independent, affordable series of conferences and covers All Things Groovy</p>--> |
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| <!-- TODO a lot of these links are broken, I've no doubt many of the communities still exist in some form but how should we proceed? --> |
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| <!-- <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Groovy-and-Grails-Users/">United States - Austin Groovy and Grails User Group (TX)</a>--> |
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| <!-- <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Grails-Boston/">United States - Boston Groovy, Grails, Spring Meetup (B2GS)</a>--> |
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| <!-- <a href="https://coderconsortium.com/">United States - Coder Consortium of Sacramento</a>--> |
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| <!-- <a href="https://www.dcgroovy.org/">United States - DC Groovy</a>--> |
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| <!-- <a href="https://dfw2gug.org/">United States - DFW Groovy & Grails User Group</a>--> |
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| <!-- <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Grails-and-Ales/">United States - Groovy and Grails Users of Columbus OH</a>--> |
| <!-- </li>--> |
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| <!-- <a href="https://groovy.mn/">United States - Groovy Users of Minnesota</a>--> |
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| <!-- <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-GUG/">United States - Los Angeles Groovy Users Group</a>--> |
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| Group</a> |
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| <li> |
| <a href="https://www.meetup.com/st-louis-groovy-and-grails-meetup/">United States - St. Louis |
| Groovy & Grails Meetup</a> |
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| <h2>Europe</h2> |
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| <a href="https://www.meetup.com/madrid-gug/">Spain - Madrid Groovy User Group</a> |
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| <a href="https://www.meetup.com/nl-gug/">Holland - Dutch Groovy and Grails User Group |
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