Cape Town March 2011

When and Where

The 23th 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 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

• Anti Rayap
• Rumah Dijual
• Toko Bunga Online

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

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

A talk about preparing a presentation for a talk about preparing a presentation for a talk. - Rian van der Merwe

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 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.

There are (usually) 60 places available. Bring your geek friends and loved ones.

Signup will only open once we have secured a venue.

If you want to be reminded when signup does open, sign up to or follow on Twitter.

You can also help us organising the event by joining.