[Raed667]

The first time was quite scary, but it was a challenge I set for myself.

There was this group that were louder and generally "more alive" than the rest. So I approached them, and lurked for a while, after a few minutes I said hi and introduced myself, and that's it!

After that I threw myself out of my comfort zone at every event. My goal was to meet as many interesting people as I could, and I did.

I was young back then, probably one of the youngest at those kind of events (that probably helped).