@funnyman Congrats on holding the first meetup!

I was talking to @liberosist yesterday about organizing something to this effect in a big way. I have a list of bloggers pan-India somewhere on my drive and maybe we can channel more efforts in this direction in a focused manner. Perhaps with some influencers on board as well! We'll discuss the specifics later on.

For a start i'd love to see some discussions at #India in Steemit.Chat from everyone (apart from sharing of links) so we can start building a community of Steemians from India. If you know users here from India, please add them there including any who've come on board on Steemit from your meetup!

I've created an FB group as well a while ago but I haven't had much success bringing traditional Wordpress-based bloggers on board there or the time to sit and add people. Feel free to assist wherever possible if you want.

Getting our people on board won't be easy due to various factors. Some of which you may know already! I've already tried this in some big blogging circles that I'm part of.

Anyway, as @liberosist suggested a Regional Steemcom is something we can do after we've had 4-5 successful events in the larger cities and gain some traction. Atleast 50-100+ bloggers per meetup will be the real challenge. Although, the skepticism that we see in our markets is not something you'll observe in others. Also, most bloggers prefer affiliate marketing in India.

Realistically, I was looking at initiating this after SteemFest. I'm going, will you be attending as well?

I think December and January will be a good time to put something like this together and get some of our active and reputed Steemians from India on board to some of these events in some capacity. If things pick up a regional meet can be organized a few months down if the city-level events bear positive results.