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Contents 1 Cape Town March 2007 GeekDinner 1.1 Coverage 1.2 Attendees 1.3 Talks given 1.4 Apologies

Cape Town March 2007 GeekDinner

The first in the new series of original GeekDinners was held on the 28th of March at Barbarellas in Constantia Village, Cape Town.

Coverage

General coverage can be found on the GeekDinner planet

• Geekdinner blog post by Jonathan Carter
• Geekdinner, 28 March blog post by Marius Bock
• Geek Dinner blog post by Tania Melnyczuk
• Geekdinner Reportback (200703) blog post by Neil Blakey-Milner
• Rage, rage blog post by Melissa Loudon
• Geekdinner blog post by Jonathan Hitchcock
• Geek Dinner blog post by Michael Rauch
• I am not a post blog post by Michael Champanis
• Geek Dinner blog post by Nick Coyne
• geek dinner and panoramic pics blog post by Russell Cloran

Attendees

There were 64 seats..

1. Joe : http://www.swimgeek.com/
2. Rafiq Phillips : http://www.rafiq.za.net/blog/
3. Jonathan Endersby : http://www.arbitraryuser.com/
4. Jonathan Hitchcock : http://vhata.net/blog/
5. All-the-Jonathans-are-doing-it: http://jonathancarter.co.za/ (highvoltage)
6. Bryn Divey: http://www.bryndivey.co.za/
7. Neil Blakey-Milner: http://nxsy.org/
8. Nick Coyne: http://www.nickcoyne.com/
9. Adrian Moisey
10. Jaco Engelbrecht http://www.serendipity.org.za/
11. Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.za.org/
12. Ian Gilfillan http://blog.greenman.co.za
13. Jacques Marneweck http://www.powertrip.co.za/
14. Henk Kleynhans http://www.yeahfi.com/ <- Dibs on sitting next to The Lush
15. Jeremy Thurgood http://www.jerith.za.net/
16. David Jarvis http://www.wapa.org.za/
17. Matthew Tagg http://www.webafrica.co.za/
18. Maximillian Kaizen http://www.maxkaizen.com/
19. Russell Cloran http://russell.rucus.net/
20. Rudolf Vavruch http://antler.co.za/
21. Marius Bock http://www.henriska.com/blog/
22. Tania http://www.tania.co.za/collective/blog.nsf
23. Aubrey Kilian http://bug.reaper.org/ These three strings walk into a bar...
24. Naulene Evans
25. Eugene van der Merwe http://www.snowball.co.za/
26. Wam van Strij de Regt http://plant.co.za
27. Clifford Laubscher
28. Percy Langa (yellowspark)
29. Le Roux Bodenstein http://opensores.za.net
30. Barry Christianson http://baddy.wordpress.com
31. James Greenfield
32. Mignon Lotz-Keyser http://www.peerpower.co.za
33. John Labrey
34. Evan Summers http://weblogs.java.net/blog/evanx
35. Blake Willingale
36. Tereza Correia http://bluesouth.co.za
37. Robert Adams http://www.redshift.co.za
38. David Peall
39. Matthew West
40. Gavin Rain http://www.worldart.co.za
41. Ernst Kuschke http://www.ernstkuschke.com/
42. Mitchell Geere http://www.mitchellgeere.com/
43. Norman Hooper http://norman.hooper.name/
44. Richard Spiers
45. Michael Champanis http://sinner.co.za
46. Nico de Wet http://www.redbutton.co.za
47. Kilian Hagemann http://www.redbutton.co.za
48. Andy Rabagliati http://blog.wizzy.com/ Will brush up on my jokes
49. Mark Linley http://www.scasa.co.za
50. Christian Lau
51. Arno Breedt
52. Tino Mueller http://www.skyrove.com/about.html
53. Melissa Loudon http://skeleton-danse.blogspot.com/
54. Michael Rauch http://www.phpdev.co.za/
55. Morgan Collett http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/
56. Barry Steyn http://www.redbutton.co.za

Talks given

5/3 - Tell your story

• David Jarvis, WAPA
• Matthew Tagg, Teraco

3/2 - Geeky pet projects and rants

• Neil Blakey-Milner, OpenID
• Johann Botha, Photo GPS tagging and making big panoramic pics
• Jonathan Endersby, Web 2.0 Restaurant review site
• Jeremy Thurgood, Erlang
• Morgan Collett, Ubuntu ZA
• Andy Rabagliati, Comments on peering

Apologies

Alan Levin Sorry I can't be there, in Lisbon for ICANN

Bronwen Kausch - Urgent client briefing until 9pm *sigh* will try swing by for a quick (but strong) drink after

The Lush - Like a right tit I have double booked the evening, I have a close friends birthday that I just can't get out of. I'm so bleak that I'm going to be missing this. *sob*

Peter Hart-Davis - Apologies, flu unfortunately keeps me away.

Blake Willingale - Thats my line Peter… trust there will be a podcast to go? Enjoy

Tereza Correia - Stuck in JHB

Max Kaizen - overclocked in a big bad way[1].. systems failure 65.5hrs sleepless

Jacques Marneweck - having to do urgent data mining before a meeting tomorrow morning and Ian knows how much Firebird dislikes me! [Jacques, I think the feeling is mutual - Ian]