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From WhatsApp Groups to Monthly Meetups

Our beloved Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who does not thank the people is not thankful to Allah.

I’d like to pause for a moment and thank Adnan sb for helping organize our second self-funded freelancers’ meetup.

The most talented WordPress genius I’ve ever met in Faisalabad.

Back on April 28, 2017, I wrote a Medium post expressing my desire to build a freelancers’ community in Faisalabad. At that time, I gathered interest from around 40 people.

https://medium.com/@pomy/faisalabad-whatsapp-group-50595cc278c6

Then on August 7, 2019, Adnan became the first WordPress professional to step forward and join this mission. The timestamps are still there on the blog post.

Although the community didn’t grow as quickly as we hoped, things took a positive turn when I joined eEarn and started the unofficial eEarn Faisalabad group with Irfan sb. Thanks to Irfan sb as well for helping me maintain the eEarn community at that time. That initiative gave our local community its real momentum, and we eventually merged it back into our own freelancers community after leaving eEarn. Which is going to turn soon to F3 community insha’Allah.

As of today, Adnan plans monthly meetups for 50 WordPress freelancers, while I am targeting monthly gatherings of 100 freelancers.

Whoever reaches their goal first, we’ll be there to help each other succeed 🙂