First two days of SteemFest - images and takeaways

in #steemfest7 years ago (edited)

If you ask me to describe the first two days of SteemFest in a single picture/gif, than this would be the most suitable in my opinion.


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To me the first two days where a combination of connecting with awesome Steemians from all over the world, enjoy the incredible atmosphere and ultimately learn more about the planned improvements of the STEEM blockchain and Smart Media Token (SMT)

The first 4 speakers at the conference on day one where Roeland, Ned, Michael and Sneak. I personally felt that there was a lot of optimism for the future of the STEEM blockchain and SMT as well as realization of the current issues.

I was particular happy to hear that further improvement on the STEEM blockchain are in progress to make operations even faster and to improve the account creation speed. Another thing was the introduction of a STEEM mobile app/wallet and getting communities on Steemit.


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Communities and a STEEMIT Mobile app/wallet will be available this year, sweeet!


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I love those things and eat far too many than good for me :)

On day two we travelled to a beautiful Vila up the hill, the view was amazing! At the luch break all Steemians have been asked to meet at the balcony for a group photo/video that has been shot by a drone (dji mavic pro). I can't wait to see the actual drone video feed but can share already a few images I made.


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Later that day the two Sndbox founder's Michale and Kirk presented about the SteemPark project and Sndbox in general. I enjoyed the presentation a lot and can't wait to see more Steem supported projects being developed and supported by some of the incredible creative people we have in this community.


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Before the dinner there was Fireside chat with Ned and Andrew (see Andrew's post here) which was sharp and to the point.
To me Ned answered all the critical questions around future of Steemit, SMT's, developments to improve the platform and blockchain satisfactory and I feel comfortable to stay invested in STEEM for the long run.


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As a closing comment, one of the discussions I had with Steemians from Malaysia and Venezuela is that many users have a considerably better live in these countries due to blogging on Steemit since the basic income is very low and a post reward of 5 dollars is already a little fortune to them.

That was a great reminder that beside all challenges we have in the early years of this project, this platform already improves the live of many people and if nothing bad happens than it only gets better from here!



Thank you and all the best!

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great pictures adam! I think we met on the first night..... I was very drunk probably. haha. Those free bars were dangerous!

Hi Basil, yes it was great meeting you at steemfest and I hope you shot enough material for your documentary film.

i shot plenty....but its all terrible! haha. we'll see.... I was drunk a lot of the time, but Im sure I can scratch something vaguely amusing together :)

Hey @tarekadam, Thanks for the gif shout out!

Question... JayBird and I are collecting footage from our SteemBirds' show to make a small video and we were wondering if you had any footage we could use... not sure if you actually filmed anything from the balcony or if that was just a short snap you took. No big deal either way... just thought I'd ask.

Hi @dan-atstarlite, it was great meeting you again at Steemfest2 . The performance was great. I just have a short clip (16 sec.) and happy to share. I will try to send it to you via steem chat tomorrow.

Sweet man! Great meeting you again too! Every little bit of footage may help. I'm on steem chat under the same name "dan-atstarlite". no hurry 😎

So much optimism in the air after seeing how professional this event was and how so many have taken their time to travel to Lisbon to support this beautiful platform !

Yes the event was professionaly organized and the atmosphere was really amazing! I hope to meet you at the next SF!

Me too ! I will definitely try to make it next time ! I will be living in Sweden by then so it hopefully will make the travel more convenient... hope they won't hold next Steemfest in Asia haha

Danke für die Zusammenfassung - ich hoffe Du hast in allen Punkten Recht!

Danke Uwe, wenn alles was gesagt wurde umgesetzt wird, dann bleibe ich optimistisch und denke das steem ein gutes Investment ist.

Dann Daumen drücken und auf die Umsetzungsstärke der Jungs vertrauen :-)

what a party it looks like everyone is having! love the gif at the beginning! haha :) thanks for sharing

Its great conference and nice party indeed. Everyone enjoyed here.Also awesome animation gif.

Thank you very much. The event was indeed awesome.

Steemit mobil app. That's good news, finally👍🏽and your post really great, to tell what happend there, ☺️. Thank you @tarekadam for this sharing👍🏽

Thank you for reading and commenting, I appreciate it.

Not sure if I met you there, but I had an amazing time. Such an inspiring event.

Hi, yes we met briefly. It was an amazing event for sure.

Very cool. Shared with my followers :-)

Vielen Dank!

Thank you for the sneak peek of Steemfest. The new Steem mobile app is different from eSteem? I'm curious.. :)

For me, meeting with @ned and all his friends is a wonderful thing. But that's just my dream. I envy to you.

I am sure you will have your chance one day friend.

I hope that is true :)

Nice party... I enjoy it..

Hi men, Excellent Job.
Look, i´ve a coffee/bar on Bogotá, Colombia, and looking the form to convert the coffe on steemitcofee or work in thats´place. Can you help me?

This seems really awesome event thanks for sharing :D