If we are all honest 2020 has been a torrid year so far for various obvious reasons, and I can't be alone in wanting to see something positive occur before the year is out. @shanibeer had organised yet another meet up in Leicester for the 24th/25th April but because of Coronavirus lockdown which started in the UK on March 23rd it could not take place - and most likely will be next year now.
Hive UK Yorkshire Meet Up
While right now the UK still isn't doing great for Coronavirus cases, and the future is very uncertain how the situation will change - meet ups are not totally impossible providing there is enough social distancing, lashing of antibacterial gel available and some face masks for good measure. And I'm working really hard in the background to pull our United Kingdom @hive users together so they can support each other and show the best of British to the rest of the world. We now have the Team UK Community to post in or cross post relevant posts too, and our United Kingdom posters can use the #teamuk tag in their posts to get supportive upvotes from our community delegated account @teamuksupport It's going well, although I am way too busy to do what I would like to with it all - and hopefully we will get more active members promoting the posts of UK Hivers and cross posting them to the Team UK Community.
One thing is certain, you can not beat getting a bunch of people together to drive enthusiasm, and to enable that I'm offering free space including refreshments for a Hive UK meet up.
Ideally I want to find a date that suits the most people that would like to come, it has be a weekend and I'm planning on a single day event - so Public Transport convenience Saturday would be preferable for Train and Bus services. Driving is trivial and there is vast on street parking within walking distance, flying in is an option to Leeds Bradford Airport or Manchester - if anyone is considering this you need to contact me - I can run shuttle services from and to the Airport. For accommodation you can look up Bed and Breakfast in Halifax UK on Google or Premier Inn has a site 5 minutes walk from the event, they also have a slightly better value site 2 miles away - a good walk so there are plenty of options for anyone that does not want to travel both ways in a day.
Itinerary for the event
This is a Hive Blockchain event and primarily the points of discussion will be adding value to to Hive, onboarding new users, sharing the latest dapps and built on Hive platforms.
On the selected day arrivals will start from 9am for a meet and greet. With people coming from far and wide an open start seems preferable so the early arrivers can hang out, enjoy coffee, tea, hot chocolate or cold drinks and discuss what they like.
Midday starts the main discussion, every one should have arrived by now so utilising either your own mobile handsets or laptops and there will be two laptops on guest accounts for people to demonstrate ideas etc. WiFi will also be available.
1.30pm Refreshments to include a buffet from a local supplier, cold and hot drinks including a choice of chilled non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages from a local Kraft Beer cafe. The 30kg batch roaster will also be fired up for a demonstration of coffee roasting, covering the full process from loading the green coffee, adding it to the roasting drum, full roasting cycle, drop out to cool. An entire roasting experience for free added in, plus the 30kg batch you see roast, will be destined and then packed into 250g bags for every attendee to take away as beans or ground and labelled Hive Blockchain Coffee - I have a really smooth Brazillian coffee for this and it is sure to suit everyone.
2.30pm Hive musicans showcase to feature the work of @darrenclaxton, @nickyhavey and other suggestions from guests.
3.30pm If the weather suits we will take a walk into Halifax Town Centre and down to the Piece Hall - great photo opportunities and history about the town of Halifax.
5pm Anyone left we will hang out at the covered outdoor seating of Kobenhaven for hot and cold drinks.
Proposed Dates
So in my original post @shanibeer suggested the Third or Fourth weekend in September would suit her. This is a good starting point, but I really want to get as many people who wish to come attending - so Saturday or Sunday on 19th / 20th September or 26th / 27th September. Let's start out with yes or no in the comments and then work forward with Polls as we get a better idea of who is interested. I'm entirely flexible, it can be any date that suits the most and if only a couple of people actually turn up I'll just be working on making my shed slightly less shed like like I have been for every other weekend this year!
Book them and they will come
@stevenwood made a very good point about what if more people turned up then was expected, could everyone fit in the event especially with social distancing? Well if every single UK Hiver on @pennsif Big list of UK Hiveians randomly decided to turn up I could fit you all in, with 2m distance between each no problem. Downstairs. I could fit three times that list upstairs with 2m distance between each. So capacity is not a problem.
Location, Location, Location
For our UK Hivers looking to work out how far it is, use the postcode HX1 5AY - this map snapshot gives a rough idea Yorkshire is pretty central. M6 or M1 onto the M62 you can take exits 24 from the the Manchester Side or 26 from the Leeds Side of the M62 and take direct roads into Halifax centre.
Accessibility for all
There are no problems accessing the location with mobility problems, wheelchair access is no problem, there are no stairs and a simple ramp inside. It should suit anyone that struggles with general mobility, and we can make it work whatever is needed.
In addition from our existing discussions about this event I know that the cost of travelling alone will prove prohibitive, to mitigate that I am going to set up @hiveukaccess account which will only hold donated funds of Hive or HBD to be used to allow access to ANY UK Hive Blockchain event. Anyone that wishes to donate to the account can send funds to it, I will top it up myself - anyone in need of support to visit a UK Hive event can DM me on Discord | @c0ff33a / Deranged [Witness] | to request support and I will organise between the donators to send funds either as Hive or PayPal GBP equivalent.
Potential attendees so far
@shanibeer
@nathanmars
@stevenwood
@slobberchops
@goblinknackers
@steevc
@ashtv
@cawdawg
@chrisuk
@thehive
I'm going to be posting weekly about this event so keep adding your comments to show interest so I can build up an idea of who might be available - we have a few rough dates but I do want to find a date that suits the most people that might attend.
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