Hi everyone,
After a cool conversation with some colleagues I have thought about starting a Fortran Users of Australia group. I wonder if anyone here has done something similar and has any type of recommendations or lessons learned from the past?
If you’re in Australia please let me know and we can start planning!
No particular input or recommendations, except to say that I am in Australia and like the idea 
If you know more Fortran programmers around you please let them know. I will start collecting email addresses so as to have a list and see what we can organize.
No particular input or recommendations, except to say that I am in Australia and like the idea
A user group for a country can mention in-person events and job opportunities. LinkedIn may be a good place to create a Fortran Users of Australia group, since it is job-focused.
I might suggest Reddit, though to be honest I don’t see carving out a subsection of Fortran users by geography to be worthwhile, not dismissing @Beliavsky‘s observation. I’ll note that there is already a r/Fortran on Reddit.
Being in Australia is a bit isolating when a lot of talks and get togethers happen in the USA/Europe. FortranCon started at around 8 PM in Australia with talks going till 2 AM. The idea of the Australia community is to organize and exchange ideas in our time zone. Australia can coordinate with Europe or the US for joint talks/events but with one at a time - otherwise we get the three time zone debacle which cannot be solved.
Other languages do it, there’s C++, Python, C# etc. but my main interest is for the Fortran community in Australia to be able to coordinate a bit more within our timezone.
Just start one, then people will join. Maybe call it:
auFortran
An example like this:
I think it should be called uɐɹʇɹoℲ for Fortran Down Under
If could give an award for this I would. Genius