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I also used to hang out at hacker spaces in Houston right after college while teaching myself Android, and went to Hacker School (aka Recurse Center) in 2012 as one of their earliest batches. so definitely have a strong connection to communal hacker spaces. i'd love to get a new hacker space going in Austin -- stay tuned for more updates on this front ;)
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good question. I was a very involved member of AIESEC in college, and went to work-abroad through them twice to Brazil.
while in Brazil, I got added to the Organizing Committee of their national conference and lived in a hotel in Sao Paulo for two weeks getting ready for it. I got to see what an international organization was like, and how conference planning happened while a sophomore in college. (also incidentally the two weeks i flipped to fluent in Portuguese, pretty cool experience tbh)
having that experience of traveling internationally and seeing how conferences build community really informs a lot of how bitcoin++ works, in some regards. AIESEC had a saying that was something along the lines of "global community, local reality" which i definitely think applies to every btc++ event that we run.