Cape Town March 2010

March 2010

Frogfoot Xen Servers

When and Where

The 19th Cape Town GeekDinner, which has yet to be named, will be held towards the end of March 2010 . When we have found a venue, we will be able to be more specific about the date.

Still Needed

GeekDinners are community-organised events. We'd love for you to help out with the organising - sign up to the planning mailing list and chip in if you can.

For this dinner, we still need:

• A venue - the most important. We can't plan anything else without knowing where we are having the event. If you can think of a good restaurant, let us know (see the GeekDinner organiser HOWTO for details on what we need to consider when choosing venues).
• AV equipment - if the venue doesn't have any, we will need to borrow or hire our own.
• Speakers - we're always on the lookout for volunteers to tell us about their ideas or thoughts
• Sponsorship - the dinners are organised on a volunteer basis, but if you or your company would like to help out in any way, we would be very grateful for the support

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. 1st talk session
3. Starters
4. 2nd talk session
5. Mains
6. 3rd talk session
7. Dessert
8. Slideshow Karaoke

Talks

We want short, interactive talks - a quick overview of a cool idea, or an interesting way of looking at things. We prefer to stay away from the how, and the technical nitty-gritty, and get an idea of the what or maybe the why.

We like to keep the talks short - about five minutes, plus questions. Bring your slides on a USB stick if you have any, we will provide a laptop and a projector.

Talks offered

• The new project: TrustFabric. What's the big idea and an invite to our closed alpha service. -- Joe and Jonathan

If you have something you'd like to share, please offer it.

Talks wanted

If you'd like to hear about something, let us know.

Slideshow Karaoke

This is where somebody presents a talk based on slides that they have never seen before, on a topic chosen by somebody else. If you'd like to give it a try, or if you'd like to create the slides for whoever volunteers, sign up.

Menu

We will arrange food with the venue, and put the menu up when we have it. We usually get a set meal for about R100.

If you aren't a vegetarian but would prefer the vegetarian menu please update your name on the guest list with a (V)

Wine

We usually get a case or two of wine sponsored for us for the evening.

AV

We need AV equipment at the venue. Some venues have this already, but with others we need to supply our own screen, projector and microphone. If you can help out with this, please let us know.

Remember

• Make sure you tag your blog posts, flickr photos, etc, with "GeekDinner" and make sure your feed is part of Planet GeekDinner before the event. If you add your blog under the "Include Me" section, a planet admin should notice it and add you.
• Please blog about the event, linking to the venue and the wine sponsor - we like to give them positive props and link-love as one way of saying thanks.
• Please order some wine from the wine sponsor!

The GeekDiners

Anyone can attend a GeekDinner, and attendance itself is free. You only pay for your own food and drinks. Just sign up here (and think about offering a talk).

There are (usually) 100 places available - book early. Bring your geek friends and loved ones.

Please remove yourself if you can't make it.

If you want to be reminded a week before about the dinner, sign up to the announcement mailing list (or follow us on twitter).

Please indicate if you would prefer vegetarian food by placing a (V) next to your name when you sign up - it helps us give the venue some advance warning.

1. Dave Mackie
2. Stefano Rivera (russell, where's that new site? :)
3. Phil Barrett User experience
4. Wessel Venter
5. Arno Breedt
6. Christél Breedt
7. MJ Watson (V)
8. Bryn Divey
9. Trevor Hughes
10. Jonathan Carter
11. Michael Gorven
12. Kylie Hagan
13. Marco Gallotta
14. Ayton Meintjes
15. Natasha Wood
16. Nic Young
17. Johannes Völkner
18. Robert Ketteringham
19. Michiel Johan Baird
20. Farrel Lifson
21. Keegan Carruthers-Smith
22. Christina Maxwell-Hafen (V)
23. Jacobus Petrus van der Merwe
24. Graham Manuell
25. Joe
26. Ashley Askew
27. Nicolette Marx
28. Nicholas Hall
29. Joey da Silva
30. Sheraan Amod
31. Sianna Wu
32. Richard Minnis
33. Elan Hoffman
34. Julian Gordon
35. Vanessa de la Motte
36. Giles Henderson
37. Tim Pickering
38. Jason Brownbridge (V)
39. Tania
40. Deon Erasmus
41. Tink Duncan
42. Bradley Whittington
43. Elodie Kleynhans (V)
44. Sean Packham
45. Carla Fourie
46. Jonathan Andrews
47. Mika Redelinghuys
48. Marianna Boguslavsky
49. Nils Körber
50. Mariska du Preez
51. Jonathan Hitchcock
52. Christo Crampton
53. Louise Liebenberg
54. Nicci Baikie
55. Nicola Jandrell
56. Chanel Lewis
57. Lara Morris
58. Bearnard Hibbins
59. Aiden Connolly
60. Jonathan Endersby
61. Gerhard Esterhuizen
62. Vanessa Clark
63. Romek van Litsenborgh
64. Debby Blaine
65. Shaun O'Connell

Apologies

If you wanted to be there, planned to be there, but couldn't make it, move yourself down here with your excuse. Or your perfectly valid reason for abandoning us. As long as you're not a Jonathan.

• No quitters yet