Nice too see this happening at Madlab. Not sure what has happened to bitcoinmanchester that use to host their once a month. I know they had a get together in DEC for Christmas meet up but seems things slowing down and not many attending the meetings maybe needs more awareness. I will be sure to be calling down to the coin fest in April. Any times of when the meeting and get together will start from am maybe guessing early noon or round tea time when everyone home from work? Any rules on Vaping in MadLabs?
Hi crazyearner
I'm one of the organisers of Bitcoin Manchester, maxsan is the other. (He has a profile on here, but like me, doesn't follow this forum any more.)
You are right, we did have a meetup in December, here is our announcement. Jonny Bitcoin was talking about BitShares and we had cake
We put up some photos on our Meetup.com event (this is the first of our events we've used Meetup for).The biggest obstacle to regular meetups is organising speakers. We've had some good ones in the recent past, including Judith Aldridge of Manchester University talking about Silk Road and darknet markets, and Gulnar Hasnain of the Green Party talking about Bitcoin in politics. We are limited by the number of potential speakers in (or able to travel to) Manchester. What partly compounds the problem is that I am currently living in Poland, and Max is currently in Glasgow, which makes coming back to run events much more difficult, and unfortunately rules out us filling in when we have no speaker due to the time and cost involved.
In short, we're doing the best we can given our constraints. If you have any ideas for sessions we could run (topics, speakers, etc), please let us know! We can be reached at [email protected].
You should definitely have more events like this in Manchester, but CoinFest only occurs once a year so as to ensure that as many cities around the world celebrate at the same time as possible.