First Florida Steemit Meetup on August 10, 2017 in Sarasota!

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Will we celebrate the first Steemit meetup in Florida from 11 am to 3 pm on Thursday August 10, 2017 in Sarasota? Would you join us at the address below because we will have the chance to meet in person?

CoCreate
1800 N East Ave
Sarasota, Florida 34234

Here are a couple of pictures of the event space which is hosted with CoCreate where @robertgenito has his office!

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I will be there and setup the event for everyone! @robertgenito will also be there along with those in his office. I have not announced this on YouTube yet and am guessing 10 or 20 people from YouTube will come also.

Who on Steemit interested in going and/or said they would be there in a previous comment?

  1. @lexiconical "I'm definitely in. Already adjusting my work schedule around these dates."
  2. @joeparys "I will see if I can make the trip out to meet you and to join this event." Joe lives in Chicago.
  3. @alex55555 "I will be there for a fact"
  4. @tbnfl4sun
  5. @floridasnail Might be able to join.
  6. @lenn "This isn't too far. Possibly will make it if I am free that day."
  7. @kingofallcrypto "I'm in Orlando. Will try to make it if I can."
  8. @johnnyray
  9. @markvance
  10. @livingwaters "I'd love to attend"
  11. @josephmcconnell "I'm located in Orlando so I'd have to see about my work schedule and if I can make it. I'll keep you updated on my RSVP."
  12. @generation

Updates and changes since I first announced the event.

  1. I will just be doing the meetup for this 1 day instead of 3 because that is easier. Anyone joining is welcome to coordinate with others to extend the activities! This means no beach on Friday or Busch Gardens for me on Saturday but anyone interested in going is welcome to still go without me and organize at the event!
  2. While I originally called this Florida Steemfest, I since have just called this a Florida meetup to avoid confusion with Steemfest 2 which is in Portugal in November 2017. If you are interested in that, please visit the thread by @roelandp at https://steemit.com/steemfest/@roelandp/steemfest-updates-hotel-s-booking-site-now-available.
  3. I will provide all of the food which will mostly be whole plant foods that I eat on a daily or weekly basis such as fresh fruits, vegetables, humus, crackers, and Lara bars.
  4. I secured the event space and am paying the $100 cost plus $200 deposit as soon as I get a reply from the organizer Sofia.

Thank you very much for reading about the first Florida Steemit meetup! If you are planning to go, would you please comment here to help connect with everyone else attending!

Love,
Jerry Banfield

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Got to be there.
I wish it was more near Fort Lauderdale or Mia.
I will find a way to be there.
Good luck @jerrybanfield

Excellent!

Hi @jerrybanfield

I will be looking at flights and emailing you shortly! Hope you are enjoying your vacation!

Sincerely,
Joe Parys

Wonderful!

Hmmm.... Almost a 17 hour drive for me.....

@papa-pepper thank you for letting me know how far it is away from you! Maybe we will do one closer to Arkansas or you will host your own for us?

We will see, I used to take 30 hour trips regularly before...

I did too I just got back from a two week trip over 2,000 miles with the family! We would love to see you next week and I bet you have lots of followers that would love to meet you along the way!

I'm a little over three hours away from Sarasota, I have a guest room and it's all set up, my company just left. If you do travel this way, you have a place here.

I would love to meet you in person,That would be so cool Never srteemit when you drink.I mean I shoud not!

Jerry, you're awesome! Let's push Steemit to the 🌙 together!

sTeam up guys. Have fun and great get togethers all over the place. Bit to far for me from the Netherlands but okay..

Best of luck at your meetup guys. Nice job Jerry bringing people together. You deserve the upvotes for all your positivism.

@skapaneas thank you very much for your well wishes and kind words here!

Thank you for your support, skapaneas! Wish you could join us for this one. See if you can get someone to "beam" you over on their transporter! :-) Cheers, my friend!

Dang wish I would have moved to FL by now still searching for a house might jump on down search for some houses and meet up with you all!

Awesome and I hope to keep having these for when you move here!

@jerrybanfield I will not make it to the US but Portugal is a distinct possibility. When is it on?

By the way...excellent call on the buying of steem when the crash happened a couple of weeks back... you totally nailed it.
You come across as such a genuine guy, keep up the great work and I wish you the very best.

Amen! 🙏

hi jerry how are you i want to ask you about bitocoin what do you think about bitcoin core or bitcoin hard and soft fork or bitcoin abc about 1st august? @jerrybanfield

I think it will be no big deal!

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This would be awesome! I'd love to go and meet some other steemians! It would be a lot of fun and I'm sure you can learn a lot from others too this way! Thanks for the opportunity! 👍👍👍

P.S. Congrats @jerrybanfield

Will you be joining us there?

Unfortunately no I won't be going, but maybe in the future, I will be able to do a meetup! I think it would be really cool!

I like too meet some steemians too

hey @jerrybanfield I have been following you since day one on this adventure thru the vast , social jungle that i love to be apart of and will never leave , #steemit has changed my life , I never had a social media account or any access to the internet , it went from #eBay to PayPal to #coinbase , and here I am and there is no other communtity i would rather be apart of , and I am in Naples Florida a short drive I have made many a time , but this time I have a new born baby boy ( Jaxten ) and more than a full time job and I still cant pay the bills without scraping by or paying late , so if i can I will be there to represent how great it is to be apart of something that is real and will always be there with an honest and real answer .
THANKS AGAIN @jerrybanfield I have been with you since I joined #steemit and your content is always over the top . Hope to see you in Sarasota , Florida You ever consider Naples as a location ? If so please let me know . Thanks again for your reliable content since day one ! Give me a follow @JAKEWORKINGMAN

Jake congratulations on your new baby and thank you for sharing your life situation here with us! Reading Awaken The Giant Within helped me a lot when I was barely scraping by after losing 95% of my income a year ago along with Money Master The Game because they helped me identify my limiting beliefs about money and replace them with new empowering ideas. We hope to see you in Sarasota and I am keeping an open mind for locations for future events to include as many of us as possible! To get a follow, would you submit posts in the upvotable comments because that is how I am doing my new follows now?

Would love to go! Any rules in terms of age or requirements?

@surprisebit anyone is welcome to join us and hope to see you there!

Love the idea! I'm calling this SteemfestUSA!! Can we have the next one during the Spring? A lot of us will already be there for MLB Spring training.

Sure after this one is done we will probably keep planning more!

Looks like its going to be an awesome event. I have to check my schedule :(

Thank you for checking your schedule and seeing if you can make it Charles!

Congratulations for the first big meetup ! Hope all goes well @jerrybanfield

Thank you Farwa for your support here!

Keep us posted and Steem on @jerrybanfield

@jerrybanfield you are such a great influence on so many peoples lives here on STEEMIT as well as other social media platforms. You really got me thinking a couple of days ago when you talked about turning our grassy yards into gardens. I agree with you on this and it would be wonderful if everyone just started out turning a portion of their grassy lawns to Victory Gardens. One day at a time Jerry each of us can make the world a better place for all. Thank You for being here on STEEMIT and for providing such great ideas and content that people can put to a positive advantage in each of their lives.

You're welcome @stokjockey and I appreciate you helping me understand what I do that is useful for you!

I would love to be a part of it, pity I am a bit far away ( Ireland!) But I am keeping my eyes open for Irish meet up in the future, who knows:)
maybe my luck will turn one day I will be successful and will be attending a meet up 💫 dreams

Would you like to host one because seeing meetups happening too far away is great motivation to do one locally?

Yes I would love to!!! I will go digging to see if there are many/any irish users !!!
Thanks and have fun =)

I bet there are at least a few hundred because Steemit has over 287,000 users now!

That many?:o
Now thats an idea wouldn't that be a good way to search too! , by country!:)
Meet ups are a fantastic way to get to know other steemians grow followers and cone up with ideas!

I'm in driving distance, but I've got work, and Steemit has been only a pasttime, not an regular, reliable income. I just can't justify skipping work for it. I wish something like this would happen on a weekend evening.

Thank you Steveitt for requesting it on a weekend because the next event will probably be scheduled during that time!

Bringing steemit to the physical world is such a great use of your time. How else can we better reach out to the people who are still unaware of the great new paradigm shift that is underway!

Best of luck, im sure you will have a great day!
And cudos for bringing vegan food to everyone too! Maybe make my vegan pesto pasta recipe that everyone is sure to delight in!

https://steemit.com/food/@eco-alex/my-thai-inspired-pesto-original-recipe-vegan-friendly

Thank you Alex!

Myself and my girlfriend @lindsayimwold will be there and are very much looking forward to it. Is there anything we can bring @jerrybanfield ??

Wonderful! Thank you for offering to bring something and I believe we will have everything we need there already!

Why is this tagged #steemfest?

I originally called it Florida Steemfest after seeing several other local steemfests but I think it makes sense to remove the tag now because I changed the name off of Steemfest to prevent confusion. I just removed the steemfest tag because of your comment!

What happened to the 3 day conference?

I decided to limit my participation to one day because most interested said they would just be going to the Thursday event anyway and the Friday/Saturday events were looking more complicated (what if it rains, where to meetup, cost, etc). Better to keep this first event simple and offer people that attend the chance to plan their own adventures for additional days!

Good luck and have fun🌞💯

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Glad to see the community coming together!

Hi @jerrybanfield
wow thats going to be awesome bro, i am a professional footballer and i would love to be there @jerrybanfield

I'm wondering if I have time to move from Central Illinois to Florida before August 10! Seriously though, @jerrybanfield, I hope your meetup is a huge success!

@jerrybanfield I would to be there but I wish it was close to VA.
I know this would be a place to wanna be, a lot of information will be bouncing. I hope you can do some kind of video after sharing your experience.
Best of luck

Congrats @jerrybanfield
Sounds so very wonderful "1st Florida Steemit Meetup"
Great minds, great thoughts on a great platform and more remarkably "face to face".
Hopefully MOM will be circulated/shared by you, as expected.
Just loved the idea of you providing Vegan food to all who attend the meetup.
Three cheers!!! for @jerrybanfield
Kudos!

Very interesting, I met steemit thanks to a video of you. I wish I could attend a meeting like that, but I am from Paraguay and very few people know this social network.
Thank you very much for your contributions @jerrybandfiel, it really helps me a lot to learn progress in steemi

It seems like it's going to be massive and it's so great to see the community together.
Blessings,
palashjyotinath

Hope the event goes well! I live in Orlando, just not that into Steemit enough yet to make it out. It's cool and all, but I'm gonna pass this time. I followed you though, voted and resteemed this post and look forward to hearing updates. If you cater the event with Portillos next time, I might make it out!

That is looking nice. Maybe I'll need to take a flight to join.

Greetings from Indonesia. May the Steemit community in your place be more compact in advancing Steemit. always success.

Pls... Follow & upvote me @dsatria

I will be coming! Looking forward to seeing and meeting everyone there :)

Upvoted and RESTEEMED!

You are a very busy man, when I think steemit I think jerry between, youtube and steemit, do you ever sleep? They should make you the supreme ambassador !

Damn i would need to cross an ocean for that :/

BOOM yea cool....thanks jerry

We going to carpool @ktrex?

It is just one day now. I thought u couldn't make the first day

@ktrex lemme know

Good start brother. Congrat's. Hope all the best for all of you.

nice

I want to join but my Steem Dollar is not enough for my expenses going there.

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I would like to go! I'm in Orlando too, keep us posted on the plans and let me know if you need help with anything :)

@road2wisdom you going ?

Congratulations for your good work ,,,Great post like it!!!!!!!!!!!

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Nice idea. Cheers

Nice post:)
You would help me with a vote in my post., Thanks !!!

Follow me😊

wow i also want to go there

Great, keep up the good work

i Think you know, i am your follower :) that's because i like your posts :) @ronaldmcatee Florida, steeitm .. meetup

Love your posts and hence following you. Very informative indeed. Would love to attend.

I can not travel this time (Amsterdam Netherlands) You willing to put up a life stream for "the rest of us" ?? Hi5 Jerry

Congratulations for the first big meetup and what a nice short article! ;-)

Jerry..I assume you live in Sarasota? I too live in Sarasota. Can I buy you a coffee or breakfast at your local breakfast spot? I just learned of Steem and wish to get involved!! Thanks. Scott

All the best to you @jerrybanfield...
I am actual here on steemit because of one of your videos. You are an excellent promoter I must say. this platform will surely be phenomenal with people like you on-board.

I'll be there. I'm willing to take on some of the organization for day 2/3 if anyone is still interested in something like Busch Gardens.

I wish I could be there. But unfortunately I can't. But all the very best guys for this Steemit meetup ;)

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So bad I can't go, but whish you all, the best time there.

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I'm in the New Tampa area. I'm planning to be there.
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verry good idea.

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that's cool! :) 👍

Sorry I can not join because I live in Cambodia that is far away from United State but I am really interested in this meeting.

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I will be able to make it,I took the day off of work just for this!

Different part of the world, but I'll follow you to see the summary post after the meetup. Great initiative!

Once again, I will be there! As a newbie I think this is fantastic!

Im looking forward to this event, Im out of Trinity, FL so not to far for me.

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As much as I would like to join one of the further meet-ups, I hope you'll come to Europe one day. When my circumstances are right (money wise) I'll travel to the US for sure. I think the US is a great platform to develop your self and your business. You're doing a great job, Jerry. My goal is to make a living out of an online business, which you have done. For that, you got my respect.
Talk soon,
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Awesome, I'll have to move a few things around but hopefully I can make the short drive down to Sarasota!

I live in Orlando, I plan on attending! Thank you @jerrybanfield for organizing this awesome opportunity!

Congratulations for your good work, now you're a master and soon partner

I'll be there thursday. :) Looking forward to it!

This sounds interesting. I'm just seeing it now. Looking into making it down to Sarasota from here in Orlando. Thank you for putting this together, Jerry! We appreciate it!

@terrybrock and I are looking forward to meeting you and other Steemians! Thanks for putting this together. Driving over from Orlando.

Coming from Okeechobee, Will be there!
Love and Peace, couple hours later ..got overwhelmed...have to been out of town this weekend for another meeting in Orlando and i got behind, probably overthought it....anyhow hope you guys have a great time. :) Hopefully the next meetup!
Melissa

interesting