At this meetup, we had about 10-12 people with a couple new local bitcoiners in attendance who came out explicitly to try LNPlay and learn about the Lightning Network.
We all sat at a single large round table. As a result, each person opened a channel to the person sitting on their right. After completing this, we balanced the channels by paying through the channel graph.
Once participants had liquidity for making payments, we played around by making BOLT11 and BOLT12 payments and generally explored to the Clams interface.
Here's the event details if you want to learn more!