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When and Where
The eleventh Cape Town GeekDinner, Karmic Kava, will be held on Thursday the 27th of November 2008, at Adesso in Rondebosch. Be there at 19:00 for 19:30.
Address: Fountain Shopping Centre, Cnr. Belmont & Main Roads, Rondebosch
OpenStreetMap: link
GPS: -33.961334,18.470274
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:
- 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
- Open mic
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
How to determine what makes a geek a geek by using ethnographic field methods -- Before this event, I will need to spend some time with two (or more) people who consider themselves to be seriously geeky. Please contact me if you are prepared to volunteer. -- Christopher Swart I don't think he knows his name is still here. He is not on the list of attendees and right now he has his mind on Chopin and Tchaikowsky... -- Tania
- Dave McClelland postulated that basically that people are driven by one of three things Terri Ann Laws
- Power and Control. The bossy people and control freaks
- Affiliation and Popularity. The people people
- Achievement and Success
- The Hub, not really a talk, more like a new project announcement and an invitation to get involved. -- joe
- Five thoughts from five people -- Jonathan Hitchcock
- From general purpose to specialist social tools: insights into how tools like twitter and google reader have displaced some of the use-cases that developed around blogging. -- brad
Talks wanted
If you'd like to hear about something, let us know.
What, does my Twitter request just fall off the list, now? Is it because I can't make it, or because it's been too long? I still want someone to give the talk...although, of course, preferably when I'm there.... -- MJ Watson
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.
This month, either:
Talk Videos
Available on Archive.org
Menu
Adesso are giving us a three-course set menu for R115 per person:
Starters
- Chilled Gazpacho Soup Served with Garlic and Rosemary Foccacio Bread, or
- Sliced Parma Ham and Melon Salad
Main Course
- Traditional Home Made Meat Lasagne served with Fresh Garden Salad, or
- Creamy Mushroom Stroganoff served on a bed of Lentil Rice or Fettuccini Pasta
Dessert
- Individual Strawberry Cheesecake served with Fresh Strawberries and Cream, or
- Vanilla Ice Cream and Chocolate Sauce
Followed by fresh filter coffee.
Wine
Our wine is very generously sponsored by Perdeberg Winery (the one with the Zebra), and Adesso are waiving the corkage for us - many thanks to them both for supporting the Geek Dinners.
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 about 70 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.
- Stefano Rivera
- Jonathan Hitchcock
- Michael Gorven
- Dave Mackie
- Jeremy Thurgood
- Kerry-Anne Gilowey
- Paul Gilowey
- Ashley Ross
- Ayton Meintjes
- MJ Watson Seriously, can I just have, like, a normal salad with my dinner? Why the (expensive) torture? http://bit.ly/nope
- Tania
- Jakob Pedersen
- Matthew Buckland
- Marius Cloete
- Christine da Silva
- Joey da Silva
- Joe Botha
- Nick Coyne
- Bruce Cowley
- Niki McQueen
- Toby Bennett
- Duncan Bennett
- Arno Breedt
- Christel Breedt
- Jonathan Andrews
- Shana Kassiem [1]
- Kevin Laithwaite
- Wessel Venter
- Russell Cloran
- Brett Reid
- Umar Jakoet
- Gerhard Du Toit
- Deon Visagie
- Bradley Whittington
- Arno Esterhuizen
- Anneke Bosman Oliver
- Nico Oliver
- Andrea Chisholm
- Kevin Fourie
- Andy Rabagliati
- Terri Ann Laws
- Kylie Hagan
- Celest Botha
- Jess Green
- Bent Hansen
- Briehan Lombaard
- Shaun O'Connell
- Bryn Divey
- Vanessa Clark
- Trevor Hughes
- Bev Merriman
- Cath Luckhoff
- Wendy Robb
- Allan Kent
- Lisa Chait
- Anthony Faull
- Peter Fosseus
- Frerieke
- Brendan Hide ... seriously late. :(
- Conrad Minnaar
- Johannes Voelkner
- Timothy Allen
- Christo Crampton
- Henk Kleynhans
- Brandon Golding
- Amanda Gillespie
- Chris de Kadt
- JP Viljoen
- Hendrik Louw
- Nicola Savage
Waiting List
If you'd like to come, but didn't make it into the first 70, 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.
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.
- Graham Poulter - Examiners reports came through on the Masters: one huge pile of corrections to do by Monday!
- Charl van Niekerk (Sorry guys, won't be able to come through. Hope to see you at Starcamp!!)
- Carey Finn (Can't make it after all!)
- Alex Whyatt - Double booked after all...
- Gareth de Vaux (soz! (no srsly))
- Daniel Schroder Network emergency, will most likley not make it.
- Jennifer Dianez (Apologies!! Unexpected work committment)
- Paul Urban (big software release tomorrow, last minute issues)
- Aubrey Kilian - Argh, sorry all, last-minute crisis at work
- Salvatore Greco - Stuck foot in toilet by accident, unable to face the world
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