SoCal Steemit Meetup Report August 12, 2018

rt395 (65)in #meetup • 6 years ago

The @socalsteemit community had a meetup on Sunday and here's how it went.

@derekrichardson hosted anyone who wanted to come out to the meetup in his Skybox at the San Manuel Stadium in San Bernardino, which is home to the LA Angels minor league team, the 66er's. I'm not a huge sports fan, but this was too good an offer to pass up. I have to say the experience left me wanting to go back.

Derek not only provide the skybox for the meetup, but he also catered it! We had to pay for the beers, but the food was on the house, steak, vegetables, dips, stuffed cucumbers, cookies drizzled with chocolate & caramel and more. Needless to say, it was a delicious dinner.

Those in attendance were: @derekrichardson @mariannewest @csusbgeochem1 @beckymeep @corinneiskorean @crationofcare @mattlovell & their son and a newcomer Ronald & his son, who we are in the process of signing up.

I hadn't seen most of them for a few months since I was in Japan so it was nice to catch up. We did a Dlive stream, our first one for the @socalsteemit account and we plan to do them for each meetup from here on out. You can view the Dlive stream here: https://dlive.io/video/socalsteemit/b0c7b70c-9e9f-11e8-889b-0242ac110003

Thanks to @corinneiskorean for helping us get the Dlive stream sorted out.

It was great evening watching the game, tossing around ideas to grow the community as well as sharing our concerns about the state of crypto. It's comforting talking to people in person about losses. It eases the pain. I reminded everyone that we were sub $1 the same time last year and that we are most likely in for more pain, but this is a good time to grow your account and presence on Steemit, Dlive, etc. The weak hands will be shaken out, the strong will survive. Steem on and come out next time just for the food!