Unable to find like-minded individuals in rural area.

Good Morning HN, This is my first HN submission and instead of submitting a Tech Crunch article, I am submitting a very perplexing question in which I seek a solution. You see, I live in rural Eastern Canada (New Brunswick) in a town that has the population of ~6k people and I experience the difficulty of finding like-minded individuals to collaborate with on my projects and ideas. I know there are people in my area who have some similar interests as me (same as all of you, which I assume, is technology and entrepreneurship) but as there are no organisations to join where I could ultimately network with these individuals I seek, I cannot find them anywhere. You would think the internet would make this problem much easier to solve, it has not. I have come up with some a tentative solution and a non-solution to my problem; I will start with the solution: I have been thinking about organizing a start up weekend in my area. In the surrounding area there is a large satellite internet servic