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When and Where
The 20th Cape Town GeekDinner, Troublesome Tomatillo, will be held on Thursday the 27th of May, at Da Capo, Greenmarket Square. Be there at 18:30 for 19:00.
Address: 52 Shortmarket Street, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town
OpenStreetMap: link
GPS: -33.922284° 18.420232°
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:
- 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
- Welcome
- 1st talk session
- Starters
- 2nd talk session
- Mains
- 3rd talk session
- Dessert
- 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
If you have something you'd like to share, please offer it.
- 5 Life Changing Moments, Ala my "5 ways to be Capetonian"... - Jonathan Endersby
- The highs and horrors of the website redesign. A brief talk on lessons learned from redesign projects at eBay and Yola. - Rian van der Merwe. Update: slides post here
- Arduino and Open Source Hardware - A talk and demonstration of the Arduino Physical Computing platform as well as an intro to open source hardware - Peter Ing ( I am putting this here as a backup talk because the waiting list is full. organisers contact me peter.ing.za(at)gmail.com otherwise I'll do it at the next Geekdinner)
- True Cloud Servers - Demonstration and discussion regarding the technology behind RSAWEB's True Cloud Servers & how it benefits the industry. - Mark Slingsby
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.
Ben Steenhuisen: keen to do some slide karaoking assuming decent slides are provided. Alternatively I can provide slides and luls will ensue.
Mary Racter: Also keen to do some slide karaoking assuming optimum level of intoxication is achieved. Quality of slides optional.
Menu
If you aren't a vegetarian but would prefer the vegetarian menu please update your name on the guest list with a (V)
Three courses will cost R126.50 (plus tip), two courses will cost R102.50 (plus tip).
Starter
- Three selected spring rolls filled with: mushrooms and blue cheese - marinated ostrich - feta-chorizo mix, or
- Potato-spinach Soup, served with spicy bacon and crutons
- Butternut soup (vegetarian)
Main
- Coq Au Vin - Traditional French chicken dish served with mushroom risotto, or
- Calamari and prawn combo - sautéed black tiger prawns and calamari rings simmered in a white wine and garlic cream sauce with a hint of chili and served with our homemade tagliolini pasta
- Ratatouille (vegetarian)
Dessert
- Home Made Apple Tart - served warm with Vanilla Ice Cream, or
- Amarula Tiramisu - an age-old Italian recipe with a twist
Wine
Our wine is very generously sponsored by Delheim - many thanks to them for supporting the Geek Dinners.
AV
Da Capo has AV, but we need to hire a wireless microphone for R250 - if you feel like helping out with this, we'd be most grateful.
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!
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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 65 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.
- Marco Gallotta
- Gwylim Ashley
- Dave Mackie
- Joe Botha
- Ayton Meintjes
- Jonathan Hitchcock
- Lara Morris
- Bearnard Hibbins
- Stefano Rivera
- Niki McQueen
- Toby Bennett
- Duncan Bennett
- Keegan Carruthers-Smith
- Christina Maxwell (V)
- Graham Poulter
- hussein suleman
- Ben Steenhuisen.
- Vaughan Newton
- Julian Kenwood
- Min-Young Wu
- David Rubin
- Josh Yudaken
- Adrian Bischoff
- Jason Brownbridge (V)
- Mary Racter
- Henk Joubert
- Blythe Watson
- Carl Kritzinger (V)
- Graham Manuell
- Kosie van der Merwe
- Brent Benade`
- Ashley Askew
- Nicolette Marx
- Marius Hromnik
- Max Rabkin (V)
- Robert Ketteringham
- Romek van Litsenborgh
- Deborah Blaine
- Chris Oloff
- Veronica Blaine
- Laurynas Bakas
- Tanya Möhr
- Johannes Völkner
- Nils Körber
- James Neethling
- Amanda Honeyman
- Cliff Hazell
- Rian van der Merwe
- Bradley Whittington
- Bryn Divey
- Elizabeth Hastings
- Ashley Shaw
- Marc de Klerk
- Kevin Laithwaite
- Jonathan Carter
- Tim Hasluck
- Mark Slingsby
- Neil Blakey-Milner
- Zayne Upton
- Trevor Hughes
- Russell Cloran
- Lesley Andrews
- Jonathan Endersby
- Marije Pierson
- Dewaldt van Wyk
Waiting List
If you'd like to come, but didn't make it into the first 60, put your name here, and we'll bump you if other people can't make it. If you want to be reminded early about the next dinner, sign up to the announcement mailing list (or follow us on twitter).
- Elodie Kleynhans (V)
- Sean Packham
- Beverley Merriman
- Jonathan Smit
- Mika Redelinghuys
- Lee Stuttaford
- Guy Bedford
- Tslil Clingman (V)
- Peter Fosseus
- Llew Claasen (V)
- Storm Buckingham (V)
- Ryan Tracey
- Sue Bramhall
- Antoine Fortuin
- Peter Ing
- Michael Graaf (v)
- Dan Matthews
- Jason Weiser
- Julia King
- Bridget Nash
- Gerhard Esterhuizen
- Morgan Behr (http://twitter.com/morganbehr)
- Michelle Petersen
- Grant Speelman
- Jackie Viljoen
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.
- Christo Crampton - something something in Chicago bla bla can't make it
- MJ Watson (V) - I'll be on a plane. Eating airline food.
- Martin Duys - my squash team needs me (thought I was off the hook)
- Jeremy Thurgood - On a plane, but a different one. :-(
- Vanessa Clark - forgot I had Toastmasters
- Michiel Baird - Exam finishes just too late :(
- Andy Rabagliati Lame transport issues
- Ben Blaine - Exams
- Nicci Baikie - Working late
- Chanel Lewis - Doesn't need to justify non-attendance
- Nicola Jandrell - Dad in town
- Arthur and Tracey Preston- haven't been well so not making the trek from Worcester!
- Louise Liebenberg - too much lawyering makes Louise a tired girl
- Wessel Venter - It's been an expensive month
- Hatitye Chindove - Sorry my exam finishes later
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