First Steem Meetup in Wales - Saturday 10 February 2018, Lampeter - most excellent!

It happened.

The first Wales steem meetup.

And people came !

I was really unsure before the event.

Would people turn up? Would they find it useful? Would anyone want another?

Much to my delight the answer was yes to all of these.

When I started planning this meetup there were just 15 active steemians in Wales.

They are spread across the whole of Wales so we chose Lampeter as a central location for the meetup. Even then it was more than a 3 hour drive for the furthest members north and south of the meetup venue.

We still managed a good spread of attending steem members.

@artystuff and @pumpkinsandcats drove for 3 hours from the far north. @stevejhuggett came up from the south of the country.

Myself, @cryptocariad, @jen0revision, @cryptojelly and @timmartin are all based locally to the meetup location.

There were also two students from the local university who had read my article about the steem meetup in a local community newspaper. They were very keen and look like they will be signing up very shortly.

There was no formal structure for the meeting. But there was some great discussion, people got to know each, and exciting ideas and plans for the future came thick and fast.

We shared out the T-shirts and digital prints kindly sent by @papa-pepper - and everyone was extremely happy and grateful to receive them.

Since we started planning this meetup, the number of active steemians in Wales has increased to well over 50.

So for the next meetup we will almost certainly split geographically - hopefully to north, south and mid/west. That will cut down the travel time considerably and hopefully encourage even more steemians to come along.

Thank you to everyone who came to the meetup. Thank you to @papa-pepper for the T-shirts and prints. Thank you to @cryptocariad, @jen0revision and @tinygalaxy for making the posters for the meetup. And thank you to Cath for the delicious cakes !

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Check out these posts from other people who came to meetup for more photographs :

• https://steemit.com/steemit/@artystuff/steem-meet-up-wales-success

• https://steemit.com/promo-uk/@cryptocariad/wales-steem-meeting-lampeter-10-february-2018-wales-uk

• https://steemit.com/steemwales/@pumpkinsandcats/steemit-wales-meetup-is-underway

• https://steemit.com/steemitwalesmeetup/@pumpkinsandcats/steemitwales-first-ever-meetup-photos

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• Pennsif on DLive : 'unboxing' of parcel from @papa-pepper [26 January 2018]

• Steemit in Wales - list of steemians in Wales - 100% growth target smashed

• Go Local to Go Big : Four Stages in Building Steem Backed Local Community Networks

• Creating 100,000 jobs - will this take Steem to the Moon?

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• Homesteaders & Preppers on steemit - the We are Sparta edition - 300 reached - v12 [12 Jan '18]

• Around the World in 80 Steem-Fed Days - Calling all homesteaders, small farmers, food store owners - could you sell produce for steem?

• SteemCommerce - Businesses accepting payment in steem (v 2 @ 3 January 2018)

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[ flag image from pixabay - Creative Commons CC0 // photographs by @pennsif ]