Real World Stuff

Even though it's getting colder and the evenings are drawing in, my thoughts are turning to getting out and seeing people. Working face to face. I've spent a lot of this year looking at a wall, a screen, my desk, out the window, and while of course I've been out and about, since I gave up doing Tuttle every week, I've felt the lack.

So I've got three things in mind.

Unhurried Guildford

My friend Johnnie Moore created Unhurried to have some slower, easier, less frenetic conversations. It's a simple format: a couple of hours with some simple rules and a talking piece to give enough structure for something to happen but not to constrain it too much. I'm going to try and do one of these in Guildford before Christmas.

SteemCampUK

In the New Year, I'd like to get @steemcampuk happening again. There was a virtual meetup last week, organised by @pennsif (I only managed to eavesdrop for a few minutes in the end) which seems to have stirred up some thinking. For those who are new around here, SteemCampUK is a participant-led day conference for people interested in the Steem blockchain and its applications. We met last April in Birmingham and if I was the supreme ruler of the universe, or at least of my diary, we would have done another one six months later (ie last month) so it's already overdue.

I'm interested first in where people want to get together - organising something national is always constrained by travel on the day so I wonder where would be good for the most people to get along.

Something Tuttle-ish

I've had a rest from Tuttle, which is the name for the weekly informal, theme-less, conversational meetup for interested/ing people that I did every (almost) Friday for the last ten years.

And I'm ready to do something similar, here in Guildford. I've been slowly establishing a small circle of people with vaguely common interests in the town over the last eighteen months. I think it's time to put dates in diaries and settle back into the rhythm of it.

Blog Club

I used to do these at the co-working space I was part of in London - just a weekly session for people to meet up face to face and talk about their blogging experiences. I'm not sure that Guildford has the blogging community to support that at the moment. So maybe it'll be a regular live stream for people to join in with wherever they are. The format is to talk for a bit about this week's subject and then go into writing a post by a certain time. Still playing with it, but I'm attracted to doing it anyway and seeing who shows up.

Let me know what you'd like to do.