# UK NIME Community **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [September 7, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/uk-nime-community/528 "2024-09-07T17:40:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![courtcourtaney](https://forum.nime.org/user_avatar/forum.nime.org/courtcourtaney/32/197_2.png) [@courtcourtaney](https://forum.nime.org/u/courtcourtaney)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/uk-nime-community/528/1 "2024-09-07T17:40:56Z")
Hey NIMErs ✨ I met a lot of you who are also UK-based this past week. There are so many of us and I’d love to get some kind of local dialogue for support or potential local collaborations going in the time between the NIME conferences - we shouldn’t need to travel to other places to meet our neighbours 😉 If you are interested in maybe having a Slack group or something similar - a low email volume community where we can get in touch would be great - comment here and I’ll put something together! ❤ Courtney ---
**Author:** ![teamaxe](https://forum.nime.org/user_avatar/forum.nime.org/teamaxe/32/228_2.png) [@teamaxe](https://forum.nime.org/u/teamaxe)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/uk-nime-community/528/2 "2024-09-19T07:21:52Z")
Hi Cortney, Was great to see/meet you and so many others in Utrecht! Please sign me up for any UK community channels. Tom ---
**Author:** ![cuberoo](https://forum.nime.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cuberoo](https://forum.nime.org/u/cuberoo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/uk-nime-community/528/3 "2024-09-19T10:13:44Z")
> [@courtcourtaney](#): > > a Slack group or something similar - a low email volume community where we can get in touch would be great - comment here and I’ll put something together! Hi Cortney, I could not make NIME due to some of my children starting college that week and I needed to support them. However, some of my students attended and had a great experience. I would like to be signed up to any UK community channels and so please do keep me in the loop. Any chance it could be Discord over Slack? ---
**Author:** ![Dylan](https://forum.nime.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e95f7d/32.png) [@Dylan](https://forum.nime.org/u/Dylan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/uk-nime-community/528/4 "2024-09-19T15:13:00Z")
All sounds good to me, sign me up please 🙂 Dylan ---
**Author:** ![yaxu](https://forum.nime.org/user_avatar/forum.nime.org/yaxu/32/93_2.png) [@yaxu](https://forum.nime.org/u/yaxu)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/uk-nime-community/528/5 "2024-09-23T15:07:41Z")
I’d be happy to join! One disadvantage of slack is that it doesn’t keep chat history beyond a couple of months. Discord might be a better option although will likely go in a similar direction at some point 😕 ---
**Author:** ![courtcourtaney](https://forum.nime.org/user_avatar/forum.nime.org/courtcourtaney/32/197_2.png) [@courtcourtaney](https://forum.nime.org/u/courtcourtaney)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/uk-nime-community/528/6 "2024-09-24T12:07:40Z")
Good point about Discord! I tend to lean Slack because I think it was more widely used academically it in the past, but let’s try that! We can also voice chat more easily if we ever want to have some virtual meetups. ---
**Author:** ![courtcourtaney](https://forum.nime.org/user_avatar/forum.nime.org/courtcourtaney/32/197_2.png) [@courtcourtaney](https://forum.nime.org/u/courtcourtaney)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/uk-nime-community/528/7 "2024-09-24T12:53:04Z")
I’ve made a Discord server with some basic channels to get us started here, please join!: > **[Join the UK NIMErs Discord Server!](https://discord.com/invite/mgpzx5ev)** > > Check out the UK NIMErs community on Discord - hang out with 1 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat. Alternative titles for our community welcome - I thought BritNIME might be catchy, but we’ve got so many colleagues in Belfast! 😛 Northern Ireland Musical Expression (NIME). ---
**Author:** ![courtcourtaney](https://forum.nime.org/user_avatar/forum.nime.org/courtcourtaney/32/197_2.png) [@courtcourtaney](https://forum.nime.org/u/courtcourtaney)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/uk-nime-community/528/8 "2024-10-07T09:34:06Z")
The above link will have expired by now - if you want to join us, please reply here or email me c.n.reed[at][lboro.ac.uk](http://lboro.ac.uk) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![yaxu](https://forum.nime.org/user_avatar/forum.nime.org/yaxu/32/93_2.png) [@yaxu](https://forum.nime.org/u/yaxu)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/uk-nime-community/528/9 "2025-03-17T11:46:16Z")
Hi @courtcourtaney, I missed your reply! Did the discord take off? I think it’s possible to make a join link that doesn’t expire. ---
**Author:** ![courtcourtaney](https://forum.nime.org/user_avatar/forum.nime.org/courtcourtaney/32/197_2.png) [@courtcourtaney](https://forum.nime.org/u/courtcourtaney)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/uk-nime-community/528/10 "2025-04-17T11:07:28Z")
Hey Alex! Yes, I think you can still have a non-expiring link but only for Discord Community servers. I’m not so keen on messing around with all of that for such a small group at the moment, but if we find a few more people are interested/we want to share around our local groups and there’s more interest, we can look into that altogether 🙂 For now, here’s a join link: [UK NIMErs](https://discord.gg/EzD9zaN6) - expires in 7 days. There’s not much going on at the moment, maybe I can give a poke coming around to NIME this year.