I think it would be awesome if we could continue our great community offline in an organized way and have steemians share their passions face to face. I believe we could develop new ideas and make the whole steemit community even more thriving.
Online to Offline
I have seen steemit meetups being organized in several cities and I thought we could take the system one step further by adding an application for easily setting up these meetups with a date, the time, the subject as well as a list of attendees. There would also be a search function by categories (like people wanting to learn languages, sports or play board games) and cities to locate a list of events.
Reward organizers with Steem
Similarly to the payout process for the posts, we would have some kind of compensation for the organizers who would be paid in steems. It would be fair to reward their efforts and also have some secondary payout for attendees (like comments for the posts).
Add Dlive, Dtube or Dsound for live, videos and sound records
Additionally, we could use Dlive, Dtube or Dsound to record some of the meetings. The whole community would definitely benefit if the meetup is in a conference format or a concert.
Follow-up
Don’t hesitate to comment and upvote if you like the idea. I’m not a developer but I could help if anyone from the steemit team is interested. Thanks