Cape Town January 2008

Happy Habanero 28 May 2008
Mel's Kitchen
Rondebosch, Cape Town

March 2008
Green's
Plattekloof, Cape Town

January 2008
Sloppy Sams
Green Point, Cape Town

8-9 December 2007
AIMS, Muizenberg
Cape Town

28 November 2007
Ferryman's
Cape Town

27 September 2007
Summerville
Camps Bay, Cape Town

26 July 2007
Krugmanns
Waterfront, Cape Town

23 June 2007
Dutton's Cove
Garden Route

28 May 2007
The Wild Fig
Mowbray, Cape Town

28 March 2007
Barbarellas
Constantia, Cape Town

When and Where

The sixth GeekDinner, aka Frugal Fennel was held on Thursday 31 January at Sloppy Sam's, starting at 19:30.

Sloppy Sam's Address:
51a Somerset Road
Green Point
Cape Town

Agenda

This is just a plan...

1. Henk - The Evil People in Marketing: The Real Reason Why User Interfaces Suck
2. Starters
3. Shaun - Immersion in Software / Games - The (amateur) psychology behind "being in the zone"
4. Mains
5. Joe - Getting Things Done, and Chandler
6. Niclas Nilsson - Why BDD is a good idea
7. Dessert
8. Tania - Slideshow Karaoke - A brief overview of some lesser known Norse Gods
9. Peter - SCRUM

Talk Videos

The talks were videoed, and are available to watch online (flash) or download in Ogg/Theora/Vorbis format (plays in VLC and Mplayer)

• Archive.org
• South African Mirror of Oggs (slow during office hours)
• UK Mirror of Oggs

Menu

Sloppy Sam's arranged a set menu of mediterranean, middle eastern and greek style food for us:

• Starter: mezze platter
• Main: mezze platter of more bulky/filling stuff
• Dessert: ice-cream and baklava

The price for the meal was R130 per person, which includes the service fee.

Wine

Stormhoek very generously sponsored us four boxes of their excellent stuff - many thanks to them.

The GeekDiners

There were 70 seats

1. Jonathan Hitchcock
2. Stefano Rivera
3. Jeremy Thurgood
4. MJ Watson
5. Tania
6. Shaun O'Connell
7. Neil Blakey-Milner
8. Peter Hundermark (talking about Scrum)
9. Malcolm Croucher
10. Bob Meredith
11. Graham Poulter
12. Bryn Divey
13. Joey da Silva
14. Christine da Silva
15. johann botha
16. Dave Mackie
17. Paul Gilowey
18. Kerry-Anne Gilowey
19. Wessel Venter
20. Tim Shier
21. Craig Raw
22. Ashley Shaw
23. Aubrey Kilian - I'll really try to come this time
24. Brad Whittington
25. Jonathan Endersby
26. Lynnae Janse Van Rensburg
27. Deon Erasmus
28. Tink Duncan
29. Daniel Schroder
30. Anthony Faull
31. Illana Foye
32. Henk Kleynhans (presenting - "The Evil People in Marketing")
33. Jonathan Carter
34. Catherine Lückhoff
35. Bev Merriman
36. Brandon Golding
37. Kevin Fourie
38. Timothy Allen
39. Bolelang Rakeepile
40. Jannes Strydom
41. Andy Rabagliati
42. Maximillian Kaizen
43. David Donde
44. Thomas Andrews
45. Jacques Marneweck
46. Richard Parry
47. Jacques Botha
48. Ian Gilfillan
49. Russell Cloran
50. Allan Kent
51. Wendy Robb
52. Callum Macdonald
53. Cornelius Hahndiek (tagging along with jerith if there's space)
54. Niclas Nilsson - tagging along with Aslam Khan and potentially doing a talk.
55. Rudolf Vavruch
56. John de Villiers
57. Bradley Clayton
58. Christine Hinterlang

Apologies

The following people wanted to be there, planned to be there, but couldn't make it:

1. Matthew West - won't be there in time, unfortunately
2. Shayan Raghavjee - prior engagement, thought 31st was Thursday (Dude, the 31st is Thursday. -Jonathan) Doh! - SR
3. Amanda Joseph with child
4. Erhard Eiselen - work work work...auditors...work work work
5. Marius Bock -- go and see how Maties first-year students make a total ass of themselves
6. Frank Spencer - sorry dudes, Thu eves have become bad nights for me....
7. Nick Coyne - work is bananas. Next time...
8. Richard Spiers - Moving
9. Michael Champanis
10. Phil Barrett - bronchitis
11. Aslam Khan I got dumped at 4.30pm today with a client engagement for 9am on Friday :( :( :( Niclas will be there so look out for a confused Swede!
12. Trevor Hughes - month end stock take ...... did not get far enough today ... grrrr!
13. Farrel Lifson - Sleep deprived
14. Adrian Moisey - too poor/tired/busy/far