Thank you so much! Yes you can quote me.
I have always been a person who tries to build community where ever I go in life, and it was longboarding that helped me learn this about myself. When I first got into longboards, I tried to get everyone I knew to ride one. First we just skated together, but soon we had put on events, contest, and fundraiser for a kid who rode longboard across Canada after beating cancer. Don't worry, he'll be joining Steemit soon.
Now my goal is to bring the global longboarding community to Steemit, because so many of them make a ton of great content, and they are also an amazing group of people that live the true meaning of community.
On top of all that, I also believe community is what will change the world. So often I hear people say there is no hope for the world because people are just greedy, and violent, so we cannot dream of a better world. But we have forgotten that communities of people, cooperating together is what brought us to where we are today. Communities take many forms, like just neighbourhoods of people who do things together, or the scientific community, and of course the Steemit community. So if we can learn to work as a global community rather than fighting each other, we can evolve to the next level one day. Which I believe is a self-governing civilization.