"Building up a community has never been so easy. Just find some like minded people and things will start to roll." - Nobody ever said that. Apparently, there is a lot more to it and we are absolute newcomers when it comes to that too. Join us for a bumpy little ride about how the idea of setting up a user group was born, how it is going, lessons learned and where it's heading. The idea of setting up a QGIS user group in Estonia, and the first ever in the Baltics, was born in the aftermath of the 2022 Baltic GIT conference in Tallinn. Randomly poking people and asking "Do you know any QGIS user group in Estonia or the Baltics?" came all back with the same reaction "Nope, sorry" and sometimes followed by a "...it would be cool to have one!". Well, some water has flown down the Emajõgi, but here we are now! As a user group, we want to bring people together sharing the same enthusiasm, interest and experience around GIS and its open source solutions. We come together, chill & talk about GIS, how we approach our challenges in our workplaces and what we have learned and maybe also what went wrong.