Personal Note : Gayo Highland Steemit Meetup

The meetup was successfully conducted, the number of Gayo steemian and other regional steemians came to crowd this event on Saturday, March 10th 2018 in Takengon, Aceh Tengah, Indonesia. I was so enthusiastic attending any steemit meetup and that was my another spectacular occasion fulfilling the meetup invitation in Gayo Highland, the place with a thousand stories. I had no trouble to get this territory even I had to pass mountain road, and struggled with the mist that blocked my vision during the way home. It was all about meetup, and tempting me to absorb the quality friendship in the meeting as well as the way to uphold the solidarity value among the members, as the meetup is also defined as gathering event where the other steemit regional members also participated. I previously heard, the Gayo steemians are rapidly growing, due to the massive growth, the regional steemit community of Gayo initiated to hold a meetup by inviting other regional members to share the knowledge about steemit and any other issues that might be required by this steemit community chapter.

Meetup telah terlaksana dengan baik, sejumlah steemian Gayo datang meramaikan acara tersebut hari Sabtu, tanggal 10 Maret, 2018. Saya sangat senang sekali bisa menghadiri pertemuan steemit ini dan merupakan kesekian kali saya bisa memenuhi undangan meetup di dataran tinggi Gayo, tempat yang dikenal dengan seribu cerita. Saya tidak kesulitan untuk sampai di sana dengan sepeda motor jika harus melewati jalan gunung yang panjang, dan berjuang dengan kabut yang menghalangi penglihatan saya. Itu semua tentang pertemuan, dan ini memberi saya pertemuan menyenangkan lagi dengan para steemian yang selalu menjunjung tinggi nilai solidaritas di antara anggota. Sebelumnya saya pernah mendengar, para steemian Gayo saat ini tumbuh, karena pertumbuhannya yang masif, komunitas steemit regional ini berinisiatif untuk mengadakan _meetup_sebagai cara untuk menyatukan para anggota.

The meetup took a place in Takengoen Administrative area, not far from the downtown. One of the government halls was rented for the meetup. After spending more than two hours on road, I finally hit the downtown. It took for a while to have some lunch before heading to the meetup. Here, I came, I arrived behind the schedule, but it was okay. I was directly pleased to join with other speakers, who already filled the front seats. @ayijufridar took the first turn, he addressed some steemit issues related to cryptocurrency and how to respond this change and other necessary steemit information that should be taken a serious concern by the members.

Pertemuan tersebut berlangsung di wilayah gedung pemerintahan, tidak jauh dari pusat kota. Salah satu ruang pemerintah disewa untuk acara meetup. Setelah menghabiskan lebih dari dua jam, akhirnya saya sampai di di kota Takengon. Saya makan siang sebelum meluncur ke tempat acara. Saya tiba di tempat sedikit terlambat, tapi tidak apa-apa. Saya kemudian dipersilakan bergabung dengan pembicara lain, yang sudah mengisi kursi depan. @ayijufridar mengambil giliran pertama, dia membahas beberapa masalah steemit yang berkaitan dengan kripto dan bagaimana menanggapi perubahan ini dan informasi steemit penting lainnya yang harus mendapat perhatian serius dari para anggota steemit.

@bahagia-arbi as the MC concluded any speech while stirring this event and he pleased another speaker, this time @levycore, as curator, addressed the crucial point such as the reward, consistence, and the positive mindset were required by all steemians, especially for those who just joined in this platform. Then, another speaker @zainalbakri delivered some point of sustainability on steemit. He spoke out about the benefit of dedicating our work and payout would come then, it meant reward was not the first and the last but reward as the trigger that pumped our spirit to always dedicate the quality work along with determination that someday, the new would be older, and little would be bigger.

@ bahagia-arbi selaku moderator mengakhiri setiap pembicara sambil mengarahkan acara ini dan dia mempersilakan pembicara lain, kali ini @levycore, sebagai kurator, membahas hal penting seperti penghargaan, konsistensi, dan pola pikir positif yang dibutuhkan oleh semua steemian, terutama bagi yang baru bergabung di platform ini. Kemudian, pembicara lain @zainalbakri menyampaikan beberapa hal-hal penting untuk terus berkarya di steemit. Dia berbicara tentang keuntungan mendedikasikan karya kita dan reward, artinya penghargaan bukanlah yang pertama dan yang terakhir tapi penghargaan sebagai pemicu sebagai pemompa semangat kita untuk selalu mendedikasikan karya berkualitas beserta tekad bahwa suatu hari nanti, yang bayi akan menjadi lebih tua, yang sedikit akan lebih besar.

It came to my turn to tell a bit about my experience and how I survived on this platform. I always love to share my experience. In this session, I also told them about the meaning of creativity that affect our content. I stressed, it was so okay if we worked on anything and polished it with creativity. It was not that all, I used in few minutes to share the past steemit users who dealt with reward problem and they kept up doing good work until they are recognized as reputable steemians. All we needed to do was, the persistence and consistence were the key to survive on steemit. Soon my turn was done, @kemal13, continued explaining about the blockhain and answered couple questions from the audiences.

Selanjutnya giliran saya untuk menceritakan sedikit tentang pengalaman saya dan bagaimana saya bertahan di platform ini. Saya selalu suka berbagi pengalaman. Dalam sesi ini, saya juga bercerita tentang makna kreativitas yang mempengaruhi konten kita. Saya menekankan, bagus jika kita mengerjakan sesuatu dan memolesnya dengan kreativitas. Bukan itu saja, saya menggunakan beberapa menit untuk berbagi tentang pengguna steemit sebelumnya dan rintangan yang mereka hadapai dulu, sehingga sekarang menjadi pengguna steemit yang bertahan. Yang perlu kita lakukan hanyalah, ketekunan dan konsistensi adalah kunci untuk bertahan di steemit.

The speakers were : @levycore, @aiqabrago, @ayijufridar, @zainalbakri, @razackpulo, @kemal13 @abduhawab.

A big shoutout to my brother @bahagiaarbi for leading this meetup event and @razack-pulo for generous contribution.

My special thanks to steemit regional community members chapter Gayo, Aceh Tengah, Indonesia who seriously worked to succeed the steemit meetup and facilitated the guests with very warm welcome.