Last night we hosted the first NYC gathering for those part of Steemit or interested in joining the platform! We had a whopping 62 people sign up to attend and probably 40-50 there in total, most of whom had only heard of Steemit through the grapevine. Long story short, the group of buzzing and everyone seemed to have a great time at Spitzer's Corner!
The group was very eclectic, including of course programmers and crypto financiers but also a number of lawyers, real estate developers, marketing agents, designers, and all-around awesome curious people. Most of them had only seen or heard about STEEM in passing or even tried to be involved but were discouraged by all the nuances so it was great to explain and pump them up in person.
@Andrarchy and I were there repp'n the Steemit community, spending a good 3 hours over beers explaining the ins and outs of the platform. With the “creative” part of the group, we had a blast talking about all the potential and possibilities of using STEEM to power innovative work. We had some other great new members of Steemit there as well like @nickytothenines! It was awesome to meet you guys in real life... =)
The last few stragglers who stayed til 9!
Anyway, be sure to stay tuned more updates and events we aim for in the Big Apple! If you haven't already, do sign up for The Creative NYC Meetup group where we've almost hit 200 members!! We'll be hosting our next event very soon to coincide with the opening of STEEM Park.
STEEM ON fellow Steemians!
design collective @hitheryon
Congratulations! Here In Constanta, Romania we also had first meetup! but we was 4 people.
Enjoy!
Awesome! We might try a quaint coffee-time next meetup as well... =P
Spitzers corner looks like a very cool place to meetup
It absolutely is! Come join us in the future
Glad it was a success!^_^
Thanks for the support!
Of course 🙏^_^
Fantastic! Great to hear participation from a diverse group of creative and knowledge workers who are exploring an innovative platform to write and disseminate their ideas and experiences. True to form, it's about storytelling and bottoms-up knowledge-sharing...this is the social structure that enabled Bitcoin to spread from its genesis..
Right there with ya brother!
Sad I missed it. I work in Brooklyn. Just joined the meetup group. Hope to be there for the next one.
Join us this sunday at the Steem Park opening! It's in Bed-stuy
Nice to see you Steemians! Great job!
Thanks @jwolf! Join us in the future!
I would love to live in NYC
Shoot sorry I missed it! Spitzer's is just a stones throw from us. Please keep me in the loop for the next one! I'd love to attend!
Absolutely! Our next meetup will probably be across the river in Brooklyn but I'm sure we'll do more happy hours soon as well =).
Great Post
Thank you.
Thanks @asdfqwer!
Almost 200 members? That's amazing :D It must be great to see all those steemians in real life!
It's my 3rd time meeting Steemians in NY and it's always a great time. We should try to plan a California-based one soon with @clayop!
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How exciting! Can you host one in Sacramento? :) hint hint... that's where I am from
A lot of people have been asking for a California-centered meetup! You should take the plunge ;)
Yes, something should be done in Los Angeles! :D
I 2nd this.
OoO... That would be fun. Any tips on how you got started to make it happen?
Let's do this!
yes it would be so cool! :0) We should connect!
Awesome!
Following you now. Do you ever come down to LA?
I have in the past. I was just in San Diego last weekend! Have you ever visited Sac? I'll follow ya back!
I live in NYC, sadly I did not hear about this. Too bad, I would have gone. Maybe next time.
Sign up for the meetup! We'll be having at least one event a month all around NYC.
You guys rock!! 40-50 people?? wow, what a far cry from our 6 people last time, GREAT job @hansikhouse, @voronoi, @andrarchy and everyone else who made this happen, I'm impressed.
Once we made it public, the floodgates opened! We'll have a bonafide fiesta the next time you're in town @natureofbeing.
hahaha :-)), well that will certainly help get me there sooner than later! really hoping to come this summer but the time is flying by so I'm not sure.
Awesome! Congratulations. Keep on Steeming.
Thanks @firepower! Our next one scheduled for early August will be a more sit-down workshop like you did in India. I'll report back soon with my experiences =D
Events like this are needed
Indeed!
Amazing! Just joined the meetup group, I will definitely be at the STEEM Park event.
Awesome!! Looking forward to meeting you man
nice
Thanks!
I've missed this one...I live in NY , any idea when the next meetup woulf be?
The next one will be at our STEEM Park opening this sunday!
https://steemit.com/steempark/@hitheryon/steem-park-grand-opening-in-1-week-july-16th
부럽기만 합니다.. 그 삶속으로!! 정말 영어공부 많이 해야겠군요 점점 더 커지고있습니다...!!
oh wow, that is awesome! it would have been wonderful to have been able to attend something like that.... no doubt it will be a while until anything like that starts to happen here in South Africa... so in the interim, we will continue our internal gatherings with the family... as we did last night...
Thought I would share our gathering with you too :)
Not quite as grand, but, valuable all the same I suppose :)
https://steemit.com/life/@jaynie/curry-cousins-and-more-crypto-welcome-to-my-world-4
Try getting other South Africans together!
Good Idea!
So that is where all the handsome men are. Meow!