Meetup - Polkadot - Tucson, USA

[EdwardAThomson]

Thanks for showing interest in hosting a Polkadot meetup. In order for us to help you better, it would appreciate if you could add a few more details of what you are thinking (specifically for this meetup). We really want to make sure we can do the best thing for teams who want to build a better community.

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[tucsonblockchain]

• What is the plan: We plan to hold a Meetup in Tucson AZ. It will first be introduced via Tucson Blockchain Developers but Polkadot meetup will be specific to Polkadot. Target date is late October, but premarketed when college is in full swing and students can attend. Plan also is to get another leader with a laptop for presentation purposes.
• How many people: Me plus 1 more.
• Do you need help from W3F: Presentation material would be great, but perhaps Web3 could consider Polkadot / Web3 as a sponsor of Tucson Blockchain Developers ($100 in pizza to sponsor event, get sponsors on the official slides of well run Meetup) in order to premarket Polkadot Meetup. Also it would be helpful if there could be assistance with Meetup in general for multiple Meetups, and this could serve needs of Tucson Polkadot Meetup to draw crowd.
  • Do you need help from the community: I want to push "the community" to consider Tucson as a tech hub, solar validation center, and engage the U of A for start up and innovation via seeding both from Polkadot and University of Arizona. Would like to engage blockchain innovation via tech parks Arizona

[EdwardAThomson]

So we have been talking about this meetup in the W3F HQ. We will be able to sponsor the pizza as requested. We would appreciate if you could create the event on the event on meetup.com and then post us the link. We also request that you take pictures at the event, although livestreaming and video are not required (simply nice to have).

I think you are right to wait for the university to start back again in the new semester! Late October sounds good. We can also get you Polkadot presentation material.

[tucsonblockchain]

Mr. Thomas, Thank you for getting back to me. And also for your ability to sponsor the pizza! https://www.meetup.com/Tucson-Blockchain-Developers Our next meetup is in 2 days. Destry, who runs it is a doctorate in Astro Physics, yet is Genesis Engineer at Unchained Capital https://www.unchained-capital.com/ Unchained Capital is the sponsor of the Tucson Blockchain Developers Meetup and (Destry) they bring in several pizzas ($100 worth) each meetup (very generous). Destry opened it up that if anybody wants to sponsor the meetup, they will put up project on the slides and mention the project as the sponsor of the event. Granted this is the Tucson Blockchain Developers meetup. As you are aware I am looking at a stand alone Meetup for Polkadot here in Tucson, yet it could be coordinated via Tucson Blockchain Developers meetup, especially if you want to sponsor that event. I can coordinate with Destry the images you want for the slides (or even video) and sponsoring of the event or if you feel comfortable dealing with him direct, I can get his contact info to you ASAP. He works out of a local coffee house (coding) and he is generally prompt. We also have a slack for backup. Let me know how you wish to proceed. That's awesome and thanks. If you sponsor this event, I will have the opportunity to prime the pump with the Polkadot Meetup and see if anybody wants to help me and work in coordinating for late October and perhaps dive into setting up a node, after showing some video, and basically educate others on resources, Riot, Telemetry, and setting up an account. At least that's the plan. And I do think I can get some help from folks at Tucson Blockchain Developers. I'll await your response.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 4:57 AM Edward Thomson notifications@github.com wrote:

So we have been talking about this meetup in the W3F HQ. We will be able to sponsor the pizza as requested. We would appreciate if you could create the event on the event on meetup.com and then post us the link.

I think you are right to wait for the university to start back again in the new semester! Late October sounds good. We can also get you Polkadot presentation material.

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[tucsonblockchain]

I spoke to Destry from the meetup and he's a bit busy this week as far as prepping the slides, for sponsoring in 2 days, but he said if I introduced him to Polkadot, could sponsor the next event (every 2 weeks so in about 16 days approx). Do you have an email? Or should I send him to the Polkadot Watercooler for introduction?

Brent

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:57 AM brent woods ***@**** wrote:

Mr. Thomas, Thank you for getting back to me. And also for your ability to sponsor the pizza! https://www.meetup.com/Tucson-Blockchain-Developers Our next meetup is in 2 days. Destry, who runs it is a doctorate in Astro Physics, yet is Genesis Engineer at Unchained Capital https://www.unchained-capital.com/ Unchained Capital is the sponsor of the Tucson Blockchain Developers Meetup and (Destry) they bring in several pizzas ($100 worth) each meetup (very generous). Destry opened it up that if anybody wants to sponsor the meetup, they will put up project on the slides and mention the project as the sponsor of the event. Granted this is the Tucson Blockchain Developers meetup. As you are aware I am looking at a stand alone Meetup for Polkadot here in Tucson, yet it could be coordinated via Tucson Blockchain Developers meetup, especially if you want to sponsor that event. I can coordinate with Destry the images you want for the slides (or even video) and sponsoring of the event or if you feel comfortable dealing with him direct, I can get his contact info to you ASAP. He works out of a local coffee house (coding) and he is generally prompt. We also have a slack for backup. Let me know how you wish to proceed. That's awesome and thanks. If you sponsor this event, I will have the opportunity to prime the pump with the Polkadot Meetup and see if anybody wants to help me and work in coordinating for late October and perhaps dive into setting up a node, after showing some video, and basically educate others on resources, Riot, Telemetry, and setting up an account. At least that's the plan. And I do think I can get some help from folks at Tucson Blockchain Developers. I'll await your response.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 4:57 AM Edward Thomson notifications@github.com wrote:

So we have been talking about this meetup in the W3F HQ. We will be able to sponsor the pizza as requested. We would appreciate if you could create the event on the event on meetup.com and then post us the link.

I think you are right to wait for the university to start back again in the new semester! Late October sounds good. We can also get you Polkadot presentation material.

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[EdwardAThomson]

I just responded to you on Riot. We can chat there.