Cape Town September 2009

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When and Where

The 16th Cape Town GeekDinner, aka Precocious Persimmon, will be held on Monday the 28th September, at Capello. Be there at 18:30 for 19:00.

Address: 9 Riebeek Street
OpenStreetMap: link
GPS: -33.920014;18.423226

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

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

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

• Kannel, Open Source SMS gateway - Donald Jackson
• Modern Fatherhood, hints and tips for Cape Town geek dads, or soon to be dads - Joe
• Making Decisions - Christo Crampton

Talks wanted

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

• Can you do a second run of that talk when I get back from Mozambique, please? Also, please address the key differences between geeks and nerds. -- Tania (Opinionated Nerd).. about "What does it mean to be a geek?"

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.

I have some slides. Wizzy 01:12, 13 September 2009 (SAST)

Talk Videos

Available on Archive.org

Menu

Cappello are offering us a buffet dinner for R115 per person + 10% service fee (tip) = R126.50

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

Wine

Our wine is very generously sponsored by Delheim - many thanks to them for supporting the Geek Dinners.

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 110 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.

Please add your full name.

1. Beverley Merriman
2. Jonathan Hitchcock
3. Christo Crampton
4. Cata Fajardo cell phone lookup
5. Louise Liebenberg
6. Dirk Hanekom
7. Nicole Baikie
8. Bearnard Hibbins
9. Sean Nieuwoudt
10. Ayton Meintjes
11. Kevin Fourie
12. Dave Mackie
13. Jonathan Smit
14. Jonathan Page
15. Stefano Rivera
16. MJ Watson (V)
17. Donald Jackson
18. Mike Metelerkamp
19. Marius de Beer (V)
20. Christine de Beer (V)
21. Roaan Vos
22. Shayan Raghavjee
23. Michael Champanis
24. Sheraan Amod
25. Sianna Ariana Wu
26. Henk Kleynhans
27. Julian Gordon (V)
28. Bryn Divey
29. Mark Slingsby
30. Rob Gilmour
31. Pete Flynn
32. Fritz Brand
33. Marc Perel
34. David Perel
35. Allan Boyle
36. Graeme Macpherson
37. David Fox
38. Brandon Golding
39. Stefano Sessa
40. James Campbell
41. Joe Botha
42. Paul Gilowey
43. Kerry-Anne Gilowey
44. Guinivea Swanepoel
45. Robin Swanepoel
46. Debby Blaine
47. Catherine Lückhoff
48. Marianna Boguslavsky
49. Bronwyn Greenshields
50. Jakob Pedersen
51. Hanneke du Toit
52. Christelle Nagel
53. Lara Morris
54. Andy Rabagliati
55. Vanessa Clark
56. Wessel Venter
57. Simon Barber
58. Phillip Barber
59. Daniel Bailey
60. Daniel Cimring
61. Ewe Cimring
62. Will Gubb
63. Michael Scheibe
64. Neill Adamson
65. Niki McQueen
66. Lucas Wheeler
67. Candice Holgate
68. Carole Day
69. Martin Duys
70. Graham Poulter
71. Jayx
72. Elodie Kleynhans (V)
73. Jonathan Endersby
74. Shaun O'Connell
75. Adrianna Pińska
76. Simon Cross
77. Desrie Govender
78. Yasin Ansari (V)
79. Peter Sserwanga
80. Christo Greeff
81. Matt Visser
82. Tim Shier
83. Neil Blakey-Milner
84. Jeremy Allcock
85. JP van der Spuy
86. Ingi Deutschlander (V)
87. Robin Ronne (V)
88. Vinny Lingham
89. Gabrielle Rosario
90. Dylan Piatti
91. Neil Muller

Waiting List

If you'd like to come, but didn't make it into the first 110, 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).

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.

1. Arno and Christel Breedt - We blame the recession and our wild social calendar for missing out this time! :)
2. Tania Eu estou indo a Maputo ensinar a Gestão dos Projectos. (If you know Portuguese, please correct my grammar where necessary.)
3. Jeremy Thurgood Turns out I'm triple-booked. GeekDinner's a very close second and I'm sorry to miss it.
4. Jo Duxbury Oops, I'm double-booked for Monday. Hoping to make it to my first GeekDinner at last, before the end of the year!
5. Lyndon King - Sorry can't make it, see you all next time
6. Wendy Robb sorry Mondays are bad for me.
7. Jarrett Jordaan [Cancelling - Car trouble on a Monday:(]
8. Ian Gilfillan - fatherly duties call
9. Noel Ross-Gillespie - Rats! Sick. Next time.
10. Shaun Smith Sorry, unexpected deadline.
11. Nicola Jandrell - Law exams coming up, must study!
12. Priya Raghavan - Drat! Work & sneaky deadline!
13. Pam Sykes - Another double booking, dagnabbit! Like @joduxbury, will try to make one before the end of the year...
14. Marike Red
15. Lee Stuttaford
16. Tink Duncan
17. Deon Erasmus
18. Mariska du Preez I'm exhausted. Sorry tweeps! Enjoy!!!!
19. Conrad Hofmeyr
20. Trevor Hughes (tired and removed name at 6:20 pm - sorry!)
21. James Campbell