Contrary to some others C++ conferences, I don’t have a great attendance record at Meeting C++. The last (and only other) time I was there was in 2017, which incidentally was also the year I started to speak publicly at tech conferences. I had tried to come back in 2018, but that year most of my proposals didn’t make it (CppCon was the only one to accept any of the new ideas I came up with that year). The year after that, I travelled so much for events that I would probably not have made ...