Cape Town May 2007
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Cape Town May 2007 GeekDinner
The second in the new series of original GeekDinners was held at The Wild Fig on Monday, the 28th of May, at 18:30 for 19:00.
Coverage
You can always find coverage of the GeekDinners at the GeekDinner planet. Here are a few selected reportbacks about the event:
- Ian Gilfillan: Cape Town May 2007 Geek dinner - and Ripple
- Neil Blakey-Milner: GeekDinner May reportback
- Nick Coyne: Geek Dinner 2
- Robin Ronne: Geek coming out party
- Neil Muller: May Geekdinner
- Aslam Khan: Geek Dinner Feedback
- Brett Reid: Cape Town Geek Dinner
- Jonathan Hitchcock: May GeekDinner
- Antoine van Gelder: geekdinner
- Guilio Karadanais: Cape Town May 2007 GeekDinner
Venue
The Wild Fig restaurant in Mowbray/Observatory.
They generally provide a number of set menus for us, as shown on their wiki page, but they catered a slightly cheaper option for us for this dinner:
- Starter, choice between
- Butternut soup
- Feta Salad
- Main course, choice between
- Grilled Linefish with lemon and parsley butter
- Pecorino Chicken on herb mash
- Roast Veg Phyllo Parcel served with a chilli and herb yoghurt
- Roast Leg of Lamb with port and rosemary gravy
- Dessert, choice between
- Malva Pudding with ice cream
- Brandy Snap Basket with fruit salad and ice cream
R105 per person (excluding 10% service charge)
Wine Sponsors
GetWine sponsored the wine for this event. They're not a vineyard, but an online wine retailer. They do unlabeled bottles of good wine for very good prices, and their business is based online, so the concept is of interest to them. Johan Wegner from GetWine was going to give a short presentation on their business, but had some bad news at the last minute. He would like to present at the next GeekDinner.
Equipment
The Wild Fig has a screen, but no projector, and no sound equipment. Neil Blakey-Milner organised a projector for us, and Trevor Hughes organised a cheap PA system from Sight 'n Sound, which Prosperis sponsored for us, courtesy of Deon Erasmus.
Attendees
- Neil Blakey-Milner: http://nxsy.org/
- Adrian Moisey
- Jonathan Carter: http://jonathancarter.co.za
- Tania (I'll be late)
- Joe: http://www.swimgeek.com/
- Jose Meredith
- Ian Gilfillan http://blog.greenman.co.za
- Nick Coyne http://www.nickcoyne.com/
- Jonathan Hitchcock http://vhata.net/
- Adeline Biro-Levescot
- Jonathan Endersby http://www.arbitraryuser.com/blog
- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/
- Bryn Divey http://www.bryndivey.co.za/
- Simon Kelly
- Trevor Hughes
- David Mackie
- Jeremy Thurgood
- Antoine van Gelder
- Aubrey Kilian - OK, the venue is acceptable. ;-) So about that PHP vs. Python talk?
- Mark Linley
- Matthew West
- Arno Breedt http://teepog.vox.com/
- Christel Breedt
- Tracy Baving
- Miguel dos Santos http://www.webaddict.co.za
- Jacques van der Merwe
- Ryan Lemmer
- Guilio Karadanais http://yawningman.blogspot.com/
- Andy Rabagliati http://blog.wizzy.com
- Simon Cross http://hodgestar.za.net/
- Adrianna Pinska http://confluence.za.net/
- Riaan Bredenkamp
- Mark Regensberg
- Aubrey Ospovat
- Anne Botha
- Mignon Lotz-Keyser http://www.peerpower.co.za/
- Jaco Engelbrecht
- David Durrett
- Ryan Tracey: http://hiredgnu.co.za/
- David Carman
- Aslam Khan
- Neil Muller: http://dip.sun.ac.za/~neil
- Eugene van der Merwe : http://www.snowball.co.za/
- Brett Reid : http://activeice.co.za
- Ben Eppel : http://activeice.co.za
- Graha_m Poulte_r: http://www.google.com
- Linda Brown
- Irvine Short
- Nico de Wet: http://www.redbutton.co.za
- Tino Mueller tino at skyrove dot com
- Stelio Gouveia stelio at skyrove dot com
- Peter Retief
- Peter Fosseus
- Johan Wegner
- Deon Erasmus
- Tink Duncan
- Karen Stoltz
- Melissa Loudon http://skeleton-danse.blogspot.com
- Russell Cloran russell@rucus.net
- Alan Levin http://mralan.blogspot.com
- Greg macbean : www.free2teach.co.za
- Alen Ribic
- Michael Champanis
- Robin Ronne : http://forgetthem.com
- Marc Welz : http://welz.org.za/
Apologies
- Ashley Shaw is sick as a dog... boohoo... See you all at the next dinner!
- Marius Bock http://www.henriska.com/blog/ --> sorry guys but cannot make it anymore -- just returned from overseas
- John Murray http://bloute.co.za procrastinated on his studies and had to pull an all-nighter
- David Peall was dragged kicking and screaming to JHB for the day.
Talks
- Antoine van Gelder: OLPC
- Bryn Divey: PHP vs. Python as documented for KTDMS
- Tania Melnyczuk: Introduction to Project Management in Five Minutes Flat
- Neil Blakey-Milner, GeekCamp
- Nick Coyne, Ruby on Rails
- Ian Gilfillan, Mind games and computers
- Alan Levin - "Where we are wrt Pressure-on-Telkom"
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Johan Wegner: GetWine's business model[had to cancel, due to family matters, will present at next dinner]
