How many other ProZ users have you met in person? Thread poster: Cilian O'Tuama
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In my case it's about 50 over the years - powwows and life.
And in my experience, they're mostly much nicer in person.
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Samuel Murray 
Netherlands
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| Let's see... | Nov 24, 2022 |
On purpose (e.g. powwow), about 10.
By accident (e.g. at conferences), about 10.
On other social media (e.g. mailing lists, chat groups etc.), about 30.
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
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Member (2008)
Italian to English
1, and it didn't end well.
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Tom in London wrote:
1, and it didn't end well.
If I may ask.
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I had the honour of meeting Henry Dotterer, and some of the early moderators at a conference in Warsaw.
I have attended conferences, training days, Trados Road Shows and other events where numerous attendees were also Proz.com users.
The annual Danish powwows - often attended by 20+ people - were also a great place to meet and enjoy good company.
It would be great to start them again.
I have no idea how many different people Proz.com users I have met, but I ... See more I had the honour of meeting Henry Dotterer, and some of the early moderators at a conference in Warsaw.
I have attended conferences, training days, Trados Road Shows and other events where numerous attendees were also Proz.com users.
The annual Danish powwows - often attended by 20+ people - were also a great place to meet and enjoy good company.
It would be great to start them again.
I have no idea how many different people Proz.com users I have met, but I have met some of them many times over the years. It´s always a pleasure!
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Robert Forstag
United States
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With 15 of these being at a “Powow.”
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Kay Denney
France
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French to English
I know a couple of people who also hang out here occasionally, but I knew them in real life before meeting them. So I don't think of them as "Proz users I have met in person" but "people I know who I've also seen on Proz".
People I knew first on here that I met later? Zero. But then I've never been to any powwows or conferences.
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Daryo
United Kingdom
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| Grand total of ONE | Nov 28, 2022 |
but I'm not sure that even that one should count, as they were blissfully unaware that they know me as Daryo on Proz.
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Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
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TOPIC STARTER | Well, this thread didn't pick up much steam :-) | Jan 17, 2023 |
Sorry for boring you all.
C
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Kay Denney
France
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French to English
Daryo wrote:
but I'm not sure that even that one should count, as they were blissfully unaware that they know me as Daryo on Proz.
Was it Tom?
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I would love to meet Tom though.
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At powwows
I think more than 100. I attended 5 powwows. I met Lucia Leszinsky in person in Rome and some of the Proz.com staff in New York.
[Edited at 2023-01-18 18:38 GMT]
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Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
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Member (2014)
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| This is (probably) usually the case | Jan 18, 2023 |
Cilian O'Tuama wrote:
And in my experience, they're mostly much nicer in person.
I was a member of an online community in the UK back in the very early 90s, pre-internet. Members of various groups within that community met up (offline) in and around London at regular intervals. In almost every case the people I met were more laid-back and far less extreme than I had expected them to be based on their online personas (with one notable exception). ProZ.com is probably the same. I've met 2-3 members in real life, and they were very pleasant.
It's easy to decry humanity, but I have found that most people are decent.
Dan
[Edited at 2023-01-18 20:19 GMT]
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