Solano Creative Tech Meetup
A community gathering for curious, creative, and civic-minded people in Solano County who want to explore how technology can help us share, create, and solve problems together.
When
Monday Evenings
Where
Journey Coffee, NavigateRE (downtown), and other spots in Vacaville & Solano County
Who
Everyone welcome. No tech background needed.
What's This About?
This group is for people in Solano County who want to explore how peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies and simple community tools can help us create, share, and solve problems together.
You do not need to be a tech expert. If you're curious, creative, or community-minded, you're already a great fit.
We'll explore ideas like:
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Share with each other directly; peer-to-peer.
- How neighbors can share information and resources without relying on extractive platforms.
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Practical tools for creators.
- How artists, makers, and small businesses can use modern tools in practical, low-cost ways.
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Stronger local connections.
- How technology can support local connections, fairness, and resilience in our communities.
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Simple experiments anyone can join.
- How to build simple experiments—from shared data to local apps—that anyone can understand and contribute to.
What to Expect
Meetups will be friendly, hands-on, and focused on real local benefits. Whether your background is in tech, art, civic life, small business, education, or you're just curious—come join the conversation.
Friendly
Relaxed atmosphere where all questions are welcome and everyone's perspective matters.
Hands-On
Learn by doing. We'll try things out together and share what works.
Locally Focused
Everything we explore is aimed at real benefits for Solano County communities.
How We Work Together
This is an open, collaborative group. We set the agenda together, shape projects together, and make room for everyone to contribute in ways that fit their time and interests.
Small, Discrete Contributions
Not everyone has hours to spare. We design projects so you can make meaningful contributions in focused bursts—test an idea, share feedback, fix one thing, or help document what we learn.
- • Try out a tool and share what you notice
- • Suggest a topic or question to explore
- • Help write up notes from a session
- • Connect us with someone who should be in the room
Bigger Picture Thinking
If you want to help shape direction, there's room for that too. Bring your longer-term ideas about what our community needs—we'll figure out together how to move toward them.
- • Propose a project or experiment
- • Help prioritize what we work on next
- • Champion a topic area you care about
- • Connect our work to broader community goals
Open Agenda, Shared Ownership
We don't want any one person to be a bottleneck. Meeting topics come from the group. Projects are shaped by whoever shows up and contributes. If something matters to you, bring it—we'll make space for it.
Join the Meetup
Let's explore what's possible when creativity, community, and technology work together. Sign up to get notified about upcoming meetups and be part of the conversation.
We'll only email you about upcoming meetup dates and locations. No spam, ever.
Questions?
Reach out anytime. We're happy to chat about what we're doing and how you might get involved.