Yesterday I met up with a few Hivers in London. This is my second meetup this year after Alicante in May. We met up at a local pub for lunch first where @shanibeer who organised the meetup, highlighted the loos worth checking out. She was right!
The pub itself was nice, and it was good to see you can still get a decent lunch for under £10 in London. You can see more of the pub and our meetup from @adetorrent's post here.
After lunch, we headed over to our meeting venue. It was actually the office of a charity organisation where @shanibeer works. She had arranged access over the weekend and we had the whole place to ourselves. We could have held HiveFest here 😄
@shanibeer even arranged tea and coffee and biscuits for us. A must at any British meeting.
We hung around at the meeting area at one end of the office. There was a big table there, and I lay out some Hive merch I bought with me. @steevc also bought some, and together we had a good selection of items. It was popular with the others who had not been to a HiveFest before.
There was no agenda, just casual chatting amongst a group of friends about things in general, both on and off chain, but generally off chain more, the state of things in UK, the impact of AI on life etc...
On AI, @adetorrent talked about how he gets different AIs to talk to each other and see what kind of shenanigans they get up to. He did a demo with two different AI on two mobile phones and got them to role play Ned and a disgruntled user who has lost a lot of money on Shistxxm. It was very interesting to listen to their conversation and see how they interacted. I'm going to try this as well!
Those who know @steevc will know he's a bit of a musician. He bought along a synthesiser as @nicklewis who was originally going to join us is into synthesisers as well. Unfortunately he couldn't make it.
Other attendees included @shanibeer of course. @davidthompson57 who I met some years ago during covid, and @alonicus whom I've had more engagement with recently and I met for the first time. He came with his wife who has a Hive account but isn't active. There were a couple of others who unfortunately couldn't make it last minute, but it was a nice turnout and I think everyone appreciated the meeting.
