Great initiative @joseph, thank you. This reallymake me think deeply about why i want to go to steemfest.
Congrats @barrydutton, you are good steemian and deserve it.
It obvious that it is good time for steemit to scale. I am form Sudan (Africa) and my native language is Arabic so i think i can help introducing steemit to Arab speaker and some African countries so I think steemfest will help me do so.
On the other hand more than 7 month on steemit make me know great people that i wish to meet somehow someday, maybe in steemfest as most of them want to go.
Finally i am a doctor and i have some ideas to make health care provider active in this platform, i might have opportunity to discuss this in steemfest.