I have been spending a lot of time getting into EOS over the last few months as I feel it is a big part of the future of Blockchain tech. I've also been getting very interested in how to set up and run Decentralised Autonomous Cooperatives (DACs) - most people take the C in DAC as corporation, or community, but I feel the cooperative is the correct word in most cases.
As with most people who are getting into EOS I've been chatting a lot on the telegram groups and I decided it would be good to get out and meet some fellow EOS pioneers, so - with some collaboration and encouragement from Michael Yeates, I set up a local Bristol meetup.
On the 25th Jan we ran the First EOS Bristol meetup.
https://www.meetup.com/Bristol-EOS-IO-Meetup/events/246659151/
We did expect it to be me and Michael and a couple of others in a pub but by a few days before we had 15 people RVSP so I booked a space. Eventually, seven intrepid people braved a typically wet and cold January evening to come to Raw-space in Bristol (https://raw-space.co.uk/) to learn and chat about EOS. Most were fairly knowledgeable already but I went through a presentation anyway as shown below.
Please note that some of these slides where taken from the EOSTalk community meetup initiative and also I want to acknowledge Fuzzy and EOSTalk.IO who is supporting EOS meetups with EOSBits.
We only showed the first two videos - We were thinking of showing EOS Go's new video with Dan talking DPoS but it was a bit long for this session. Still very worth watching though. Here's the video links if you are interested
EOS.IO - Decentralise and Disrupt - 
EOS white paper explainer - 
If we what to talk to devs - Ivan on Tech - 
https://steemit.com/eos/@eosgo/eos-explanation-of-dpos-bft-w-daniel-larimer-part-1-of-2
https://steemit.com/eos/@eosgo/4izmr903
We then discussed the community testnet initiatives which have been going on and are very exciting - see the details here - https://steemit.com/eos-blockproducers/@xebb/bp-testnet-community-update
Then we started to discuss DACs with help from the EOStalk community slides.
I then took the liberty of inserting a slide about BlockMaker.IO which is planned to be a DAC focusing on being an EOS block producer.
I will be kicking this off in February - more about that in later posts.
Then we finished off with some useful links -
https://eostalk.io/forums
HTTP://forums.eosgo.IO
https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@EOSproject (Loads more telegram channels)
https://eosforum.org/
https://github.com/eosio
https://eoscollective.org/websites/
And we got some developers onto the telegram groups.
We discussed EOS and the future and Crypto in general for quite a while and then the subject of future meetups came up. Obviously we will need one for the EOS Block Chain Initiation in June - but a monthly meetup might be great to run as the whole EOS space starts to explode.
