{"id":3200,"date":"2018-10-02T15:06:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T22:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2018-10-02T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T22:09:43","slug":"the-universe-sandbox-team-meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-universe-sandbox-team-meetup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Universe Sandbox Team Meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe Universe Sandbox team pointing at something that was most certainly very interesting. Left to right, back to front: Jonathan Hoy, Christian Herold, Dave Nelson, Alexander Gr\u00f8nnel\u00f8v,\u00a0Georg Steinr\u00f6hder, Erika Nesvold,\u00a0Mat Solomon, Dan Dixon,\u00a0Jules Litman-Cleper, Jenn Seiler, Jared Meier, David Rappo. Not pictured: Jacob Williams, VR Developer (see Unity’s story on Jacob for a lovely picture of him<\/a>), Ryan Macoubrie, Composer <\/span><\/p>\n

We recently had the privilege and pleasure of uniting [nearly] the whole Universe Sandbox team in person under one roof on the southern coast of Spain for an entire week.<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0seven years since Dan hired two developers to begin work on the latest version of Universe Sandbox, our team has grown to 14 strong. In the past two years alone, we have added six members to our team. So for some of us, this meetup meant seeing familiar faces, but for many, this was the very first time meeting each other in person.<\/p>\n

While there are countless benefits to having a remote team spread across the globe, there are drawbacks as well — not the least of which is the limited opportunity to\u00a0experience each other not just as coworkers, but as fellow humans with families, wide-reaching interests and hobbies, and large catalogues of cheesy jokes. This was a chance for us to have conversations that weren’t at all related to code architecture, simulation performance, pesky bugs, or features on our roadmap. Though of course, we couldn’t help ourselves from having those conversations, too.<\/p>\n

And importantly, we set aside time to take a step back from the details and appreciate this massively ambitious and unique project we are all a part of and discuss the future that it holds. Believe us when we say our wishlist for the future of Universe Sandbox is not brief.<\/p>\n

We’ve now returned to our homes in Germany, Denmark, Australia, and across the United States in Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, Chicago, Birmingham, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston, reinvigorated and excited to get back to making Universe Sandbox bigger and better.<\/p>\n

We continue to be ever grateful for all of the support we receive from our loving community that makes all of this possible.<\/p>\n

Scroll on for proof that we all get along and had a great time hiking, touring historical sites, and of course, eating:<\/p>\n

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