community Meetings are great, do it!

I advise to agree on 1-3 key points of discussion to get conversation start easily on the one hand.
On the other hand your meetings will be sparse and it is nice to say yourself there where things "accomplished"

The meetings i visited in Bonn where nice to get to know like minded people face to face but thinking back i would have loved to have brought some real questions i actually remember to have been discussed. Maybe next meetings tho.