ttps://www.meetup.com/topics/apache-flink/" target="_blank">Apache Flink Meetup membership</a> grew by <b>240%</b>
this year, and at the time of writing, there are 41 meetups comprised of 16,541 members listing Flink as a topic&ndash;up from 16 groups with 4,864 members in December 2015.
The Flink community is proud to be truly global in nature.</p>
<img src="/img/blog/flink-meetups-dec2016.png" width="775" alt="Apache Flink Meetup Map"/>
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  Flink Forward 2016
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