I found out about my local Uke group, the Electric City Ukulele Club, from Fitncrafty, here on UU. It turns out she lives about 5 miles from me, and we met in person at the meeting, with more than a little trepidation for both of us, I'm sure. As the night was winding down, I mentioned that my wife had wondered if there was enough light to knit, and as Carrie's face lit up brightly, she said "I'm a knitter!"
My wife and I are now very close friends of Carrie and her family, and we've added some other knitters to the uke family, too.
(My wife takes great joy, when people ask how she met her knitting partner-in-crime, "Oh, my husband met her on the Internet.")
Locally, we've met Dick Adcock and his wife; Turtledrum came up from Long Island for the UOGB concert last year; I met BrUKEman at a local Uke fest, and over on the West Coast there are TCK and TCW, Gary, Doug, Craig & Sarah, Rick Turner, Mark, KevDog, Jim D'Ville, MusicGuyMic, UkuleleJay, and the many great folks I met at the Wine Country Uke Fest and UkuleleJay's Jam By The Bay, all of whose names I have forgotten...
I would, by the earlier definition, give rides to the airport to just about all of these people.
Heck, I'd lend money, or give a bottle of wine to several of them, too. (And have done so...)
Yeah, I've made some good friends here on UU.
-Kurt