I'm in my hotel room and unfortunately my first Hive Fest is over. Tomorrow, early I will take the plan home and go back to my normal life. I've met a lot of people. What were mere user names before are now real people that I had the chance to meet in real life. I couldn't say bye to everybody, so I do it in this post.
Before coming here, I had no idea what I had to expect and if @ph1102 didn't convince me to come, I would probably not have made the journey to Hive Fest. Even if we have worked together for almost 4 years, @ph1102 and myself have never before met outside hive or discord. It was a good opportunity to meet him and things fell in place quite well so that I could take 4 days of holidays from work to come to Split.
The first event took place in the Paradiso Bar on Tuesday and I felt a bit out of place. Unfortunately the music was very loud and it was difficult to have a conversation. In spite of that, I met @apshamilton, @cryptospa, @elmirabear, @evelynchacina and @ninaeatshere thanks to the introductions of @ph1102. I also had the chance to meet @seckorama who is one of the most committed users of our Liotes community. It was great to meet you man!
On Wednesday, we met with @ph1102 and @ninaeatshere in front of my hotel and we walked to the venue of the first day. On the way we met @arcange, @detlev and @lizanomadsoul to finish the journey together. We had the first set of presentations in a perfectly mythical setting that was offered by Galerija Meštrović. The presentations took place in a big tent which was placed in a beautiful garden. However, the first minutes were very stressful because we were close to the first people to make our presentation for Liotes. I was pretty nervous but I believe we could have done worse. We had a script but decided 30 minutes before the presentation to more or less improvise...
The tent had a transparent roof and the temperatures were climbing like in a real green house. With each presentation, the number of people sitting in the tent dwindled and people sat outside in the shade provided by some trees and followed from there.
As long as there was some shade in the tent, there were some spactators inside lol
The longer the day went, the more I had opportunities to talk with people. The initial inhibitions went away little by little. I met @vcelier an interesting person from BC with whom I could exchange some French words. I had some nice talks with @forykw about witness node related stuff. Then @starkerz explained to me the concept of Distriator and even added my offline business to the app.
After the presentations, we had the Gala Dinner in the Restaurant Gusar where we talked online games with @mightyrocklee. I got some nice ideas from him. After the dinner, we walked back to town with @livinguktaiwan and her husband. The long walk was a great way to start the digestion of the very abundant meal that we had.
Today, was the second day of the presentations and it took place in an absolutely epic setting in the caves of the Diocletian's Palace. The temperature in the caves was more comfortable than the day before and I was really taken by the different presentations.
The day flew by and again I had the opportunity to meet many people in person. I shared past experiences and ideas for hive with @seckorama, @Ervin-lemark and @bil.prag (when they didn't talk in serbo-croate). I even had the opportunity to ask some questions to @yabapmatt co-founder of Splinterlands. I met a couple living in Switzerland and they even once visited my home town. Unfortunately, I don't manage to remember their usernames. Sorry about that. If you recognize yourself, please leave a comment so that I can follow you :-). It was not always easy to remember all the usernames and I'm sorry if I forget some people like the amazing family that runs a hotel in Guatemala. It's great to see that even the kids have their own hive account. The boy of the family actually had the great idea to take a picture of the name tags and hopefully he will start following me so that I can follow back :-). I also had a nice talk with the developer @yozen that works with peakd and lives now in Teneriffe with his family.
After the presentations, we met around the hive rally car which attracted the eyes not only from us hivians presents.
The coffee where I made my very first coffee purchase in HBD and where I got my first Distriator cash back :-)
After that we made an excursion to literally invade the coffee called Anonima Bottega Italiana. Close to 35 hivians wanted to buy a coffee or beer with HBD :-). It was quite funny and for once, we were all more interested in the payment process than in the consummation. I could also try Distriator successfully for the first time. It's nice to get a 25% cash back on your purchase!
After that, we invaded another restaurant and I had the chance to talk with @eturnerx on many interesting topics around a good pizza. There was also an american couple at our table. Please share your usernames in the comment sections if you don't mind :-). Unfortunately, our dinner was cut short by lightening and rain and we had more or less to run back to the hotel before the rain started again.
While following the presentations and talking with other hivians, I felt really great about all the energy and passion that people are pooring into this project that unites us all. What @crimsonclad really brought well to light in her presentation is that hive is different from most other blockchains because it's a blockchain of people. Hive fest is a great place to witness it in reality. People from all over the world meeting in one place to share a passion. I think it's pretty exceptional and I believe this is really a highlight that every hivian should one day have the opportunity to experience.
The work that the organisators @lordbutterfly and @roelandp have done to set this event up is simply exceptional. Thanks a lot for your work and for allowing us to live such a great Hive Fest! A big thanks also to @arcange for the warm welcome. It's very much appreciated. Thanks also to @ninaeatshere for your nice company and often being our GPS guide :-). Finally, I really had a great time also because I could count on the presence of @ph1102. It was nice to be not totally alone to start with and even if we didn't manage to talk as much about the future of Liotes as we wanted, I really appreciated my time with you.
I met several other people but unfortunately I couldn't remember all usernames. Sorry if I didn't mention you. I wish you all a great time for the remaining hive fest days and am looking forward to meet you again on hive or at a future hive fest!
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It's been a pleasure to meet you in person. I'm looking forward to seeing at the next HiveFest.
Safe travel back home.
It was really a great experience to meet all these people in real life. I hope I will be able to make it to the next one :-)
What!! You're going home already, I haven't said goodbye to you!
It was great meeting you, and have a safe trip home
I'm home already. We kind had to rush back to the hotel yesterday evening to avoid the rain and I didn't manage to say bye to you guys. It was great to meet you and I hope you have some more great days in Split!
Thank you very much for your kind words! I'm so glad that you made it and that we finally met in person! After this meetup, I'm sure that we will have many more in the future!!!
They were @delishtreats and her husband Stefan (forgot his brand new username... 😃)
And those would be my favorite American couple, @alessandrawhite and @bitterirony!
PS. See you (soon) at the next meetup!! These meetups are contagious and I know that you are now hooked... 😃
Stefan's username is nldclad, but who knows if he'll ever be active. He's trying since 2 years 😅
Haha thanks for sharing anyways :-).
I just watched your walk video and I definitely got hooked by the Hive Fest. I hope I will be able to manage to attend some more in the future :-). Thanks for sharing the usernames and enjoy your remaining time in Split!
Epic!
sorry you have to cut it short. especially when we got another bonus day because of the bad weather tomorrow.
i see @ph1102 already helped with some names, so i would like to add the @buttcoins and the family https://peakd.com/@thebombkids/posts
I'm already back home. I would have loved to stay a bit longer but work is calling. Thanks a lot for sharing the usernames of the family! Also thanks for the great picture that you took with all of us!
Sounds like an awesome time. I’m glad you got to go. Hive has a lot to get better at but cool to see stuff like this happening. Hopefully some great stuff will come of it.
Being able to take part in this event changed a lot of things for me. Maybe not on a purely project side but I definitely got a big motivation boost thanks to the memories that I managed to collect :-)
that is cool to hear. Thanks again for sharing.
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Aww what a sweetheart you are! You have been mindful of almost all of us who were lucky enough to hang out with you and honestly you have made it so easy to keep our conversations fun and interesting. It was a pleasure to meet you and to be able to walk next to the entire Liotes hahaha.
Reading your post and I already feel nostalgic, being that I'm still in Split hahahahahahahs but it was a great few days while you were here, few but very nice. I hope we will keep in touch on chain, Liotes is one of the projects that makes users feel closer to each other and the missions are just great. A big hug and thank you for considering me in your memories. Many successes to you!
It was great but a bit short for me. It would have been nice to spend some more days with you guy. I hope you had a nice time. I wish you a nice journey back and I'm sure we will meet again on the blockchain or maybe even at another Hive meet up ;-)
Thanks a lot, I also hope we can meet again. The rest of the days were also very fun, although it always needs more time to get to know everyone, the return trip however was very tiring, but I think it was the same for all of us hahaha.
Awww we are heading home early too. It was a great experience though. See ya at the next one 🤝
I wish you a nice journey back. It was really great in Split!
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Wow,i would have love to experience hive fest also, but am glad you had a lot of fun .
I hope you will be able to join such an event one day. It's really a great experience.
An incredible experience, I hope to have the opportunity to attend one and make extraordinary connections.
Hive is a passion we share.
I really hope you will be able to attend one day. It's a kind of upgrade of your hive experience when you know who is behind the usernames :-)
Putting faces to usernames allows for a closer relationship.
I hadn't seen this because the tag isn't right, but thanks for the mention friend. It was nice to meet you, although I would have liked to talk more with you and everyone but you saw it's not easy with Olivia. A hug 🤗
It's amazing that you managed to come to hive fest in spite of needing to care for a small child. Having two kids myself I know the challenge it represents :-)
Well, we came but we couldn't attend everything because of her, with two children I know you understand me.
Yes, I agree; it was a unique experience to see live people behind the nicknames. I'm happy to meet you and all the others. I'm waiting for the next time! 😎
Definitely, maybe one day we make a Liotes meet up ;-)
That's a great idea! I hope it will be soon! 😎
What an emotion, even though one cannot get close to these moments, we love to see these faces reunited.
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Yes, it was really an emotional experience and I'm happy I could experience it.
You guys are amazing! I can see the excitement and hints of fun from your blog. More Hivefest to come for you! 🥂
I will definitely try to attend future hive fests ;-)
Nice to meet you both. I will continue to keep an eye on Liotes.
Was cool to meet you. Hope you have a nice time with your family in Split.
On my flight home now. See you on some future Hive Fest.
Oh no, you are leaving already? It was great meeting you! Hope to see you around soon! Have safe travels :)
The travels were pretty fast and I'm already writing from back home. It was great and I hope we meet again soon :-)
Yes, looking forward to our next meeting! :)
Sounds like you had a great time. There are many great Hivians and meeting in person is so different to just on chain.
It's definitely a totally different dimension. After that I will never look at usernames the same way anymore ;-)
Wow! Did you meet with a lot of popular hive's big shots? Looks like it was a great event!
Are there any videos of the events?
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You can see all the presentations here: https://www.youtube.com/@HiveFest
It was so nice to meet you! I'll let you know when we'll go to Biel again.
Have a safe trip!
It was a very short journey. I'm already back home with a lot of great souvenirs. I hope you will have a nice remaining time at Hive Fest!
It's so great to add faces to the names, right? Glad you had fun, I remember my first Hivefest was an awesome experience, similar to the vibe you describe. Cheers! !BEER
It's definitely a great experience and I believe that such events manage to link us so much more to the blockchain and the people on it.
No doubts about it!
Wow I wish I can experience hivefest too
I hope everybody who is on hive has the opportunity to join hivefest one day!
It was nice to meet you. See you at the next Hive Fest.
Hopefully we will both manage to go to the next one :-)
Yes!
Ah. So that's what that coffee and paying with HBD was about! 🤣 I had been seeing a few posts about people spending their HBD there and there wasn't any mention of Hive Fest.
Yes we were all running into the coffee shop hoping to test payment with HBD and also get a refund with Distriator. I believe that the personal was quite overwhelmed by the whole thing lol
I love to hear what people think of Hivefest. This is my 4th event and it's still fun. I am not sure if we talked, but I hope there will be other opportunities.
It was my very first hive fest but it's probably not my last one and then I hope that you will be there as well so that we can talk together :-)
Interesting day. I hope one day I can go to some of them. It would be interesting to know the users with whom you communicate virtually. Greetings.
It's definitely a great thing to be able to put a face on a username. Hive looks totally different from before :-)
You finally made it to the Hivefest. I wish we could in the future hehe.. that hive car truly looks cool..
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The hive car was great and the pilot pressed the gas pedal so that it was very loud and it attracted a lot of attention :-)
Splendidly recapped, bravo. It was really nice meeting you.
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Thanks a lot. It was great to talk with you and hopefully we can go on another time. Otherwise we meet again in GO Clan Chat ;-)
It sounds like you had a great time. It's always hard to try something for the first time, but I am glad that there were people reaching out to make it easier.
I think it was a bit the same for most people. It's not easy to start to get talking together but once the ice was broken, it was a pretty amazing experience.
Sounds like you had a really great time. That's awesome. I would have probably forgotten way more user names than you 😅
I actually don't have that good an eyesight and I had to do some research to remember some of the usernames lol
It’s so sad that you’re leaving already.
It was such a pleasure to meet you and get to know you better in person.
Work was calling and I had to leave early. It was great to meet you and hopefully we can meet again next hive fest :-)
What a great resume of a very full agenda! I remember my first experience too in HF! It was in Amsterdam, and before I arrive, I must confess that I was a little bit unsure about... but as soon as I started to meet real live persons, and connecting them to the usernames that I saw till then in Hive community was a very great experience. And all the activities that we had were memorable! I'll never forget the "Balls os Steel" game! Have a safe journey back home :)
I can totally relate to that. It took some time until the ice was melted but then we really some great talks :-)
The true "power" of "Social" on the Social-Fi, just like crimsonclad said "Value is valuable to you because means something to you"
I hope to attend one future HiveFest, even that I keep very good memories from the HF7 in Amsterdam
Have a great weekend!
I loved your post! Best one I read about HF so far. It kind of shows you were there for the first time and made a real impression on you, and, through your post, on me.
Thanks man! It would have been great to have you there as well. I believe that taking part in a hive fest changes our perception of this whole project...
I'm glad you had a great time! I wouldn't be able to handle the intensity of a Hivefest. But I love to stay connected as much as I can from the distance.
It must have really been a great time you had at the hive fest definitely
Yes, it was a really amazing time!
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Sounds like a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing!
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Good to see that you have had a great time!
It was really an exceptional experience.
Good to hear that!