A little more then 3 years ago, Meeting C++ launched:

Three years of Meeting C++

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Its now a little more then 3 years that I went public with the plans for a new C++ Conference. Today, Meeting C++ is much more, it has become a platform for C++ User Groups, but also a great source of C++ related news. I had no idea, how much my life would change, when I started to make serious plans for the very first Meeting C++ conference...