RE: First Meet Up in Manila, Philippines
yep, i read the remainder of your comment and it makes so much sense. only that concerted effort will fix things. after the meetup i thought the same things. really gathering the philippine community of steemit together is hugely powerful but the first part is, do we know all the philippines steemians. i just saw @hulkbuster for the first and his bro as well and before that, i only knew a few and i am sure the same applied to @hulkbuster. it starts there! and i think this meetup restarts it. @allmonitors is doing something to gather us together. if this effort is concerted like you and i and several others wish, then this is huge. hopefully, this sparks up something big. a discord channel would work better than steemit.chat in this case or perhaps back to conventional facebook. @hulkbuster has a facebook page. i dont think there was any intention to exclude. for me to attend, i wonder how i was even known to be in ph
Oh, sorry, let me rephrase. I didn't mean for it to sound like you guys were excluding others. I meant, the non-inclusion of the others, since you guys were the only one who attended, and I only found out about this when your post was mentioned in STP.
yep, i understood you perfectly. i only joined impromptuly as well. we are almost saying the same thing. it is only after the meeting that i started to see oh, it can work. before the meetup, i didnt know anything about being part of a filipino community of steemians. i was mostly on my own, till recently, did i see that this interest existed and until now, i'm seeing your own interesting or knowing that you are in the philippines. i am surprised i was known to be in filippines. it is quite easy to miss out on this things except one is known to write about the philippines etc. @allmonitors for instance, i didnt really know he was in the philippines until i saw a contest of his that mentioned that results will be based on the philippine lotto and before then i knew just a few others and especially one username that posts mostly on philippines history. i didnt even know @hulkbuster. so basically, he must have faced the same and not have known fully all the steemians in the philippines on steemit but this post can spur the change and it is pretty easy. at the very least, it has become evident that you are here and i doubt that you will not be in the nect meetup or involved. i was only part of the meetup that day, as i learned it will be in manila and not too faraway from me. before then, i can have been said to be in some isolation. i didn't know there was aim for a community in PH. i understood you.
Awesome! :D I'm glad we're on the same page regarding that. Yeah, I do agree that the level of anonymity here makes it hard to spot the location. It's a double-edged sword. As such, I'll be including the "filipino" tag in my future posts, and I will change my signature to fit the initiative.
perhaps! we'll talk more. Perhaps, this weekend, i will be able to say hi on steemit podcast. i am usually there and couldnt have known @jedau to have been in ph.
Thanks for backing me up @surpassinggoogle! :)
it was interesting to back you. anyone would. anyone would admire you really, school + this, and you are already all grown. tis all good!
Knowing you from our conversations during the meetup, I can tell that you're strong and smart. I admire you for that :)