Mini-GeekDinner with Dean Jansen from Miro

Dean Jansen is in town for a few days, and although a bit short notice, I decided it might be interesting to meet up and have some food/drink in London. For those who don’t know Dean, he’s the Outreach Director for the Participatory Culture Foundation, which develops a free and open source internet TV app called Miro. You might remember Miro from one of our previous GeekDinners when we had Holmes Wilson from Miro as our guest.

The event will be a mini-geekdinner, which means it’s a get your own foods and drinks meetup. We will be meeting up at Hummus Bros Soho, Tuesday June 17th, at about 6:30.

Please be sure to RSVP on our signup page that you are coming, as I will probably be reserving a table. More details are on upcoming.

PS: Additionally you might be interested to know that Dean Jansen was one of the team members of ROFLcon this year.

June 13, 2008 | Filed Under geekdinner, mini-dinner | Leave a Comment 

Geek Dinner Poll #1

As promised, we are trying out some polls to give the community (a.k.a. you!) some more influence in where the Geek Dinners are going in the future.

The first poll will be about pricing. In the past Geek Dinners have cost amounts from £5 to amounts quite bigger than that, but it is hard to decide on the sweet-spot. So in this first poll I want to hear your opinion. What do you think is fair? (PS: Let me know if any answers are missing)

How much would you be willing to pay for attending a Geek Dinner?

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June 6, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized, geekdinner, poll | Leave a Comment 

Looking Back on the Geek Dinner with Moo (with Photos and Video)

Looking back at the Geek Dinner of last Thursday, I think we can say it was a success. With 78 signups, of whom 29 had payed in advance, and a show-up total of 72, we couldn’t have wished for a better crowd. The Moo guys (7 of them) were the perfect guests and managed to keep us entertained all night with stories about cards, printing, cows, babies, and drugs.

We personally didn’t take any photos this time, but luckily quite a few other people did (latest flickr photos tagged geekdinner, Adewale’s photos, Craig’s photos). Some other people did some qiking (although not of the full talk). Personally I had set up my video camera and shot 5.5 hours of video from the same corner. This isn’t that interesting, unless you speed it up as I did below.


GeekDinner with Moo Timelapse from Cristiano Betta on Vimeo.
I hope to see you all next time, but for now keep an eye on the blog, as we will be posting some polls one of these days.

June 2, 2008 | Filed Under geekdinner | Leave a Comment 

London Geekdinner with Moo!

Moo Cards (by Cristiano Bettatream)It has been a while, but we are back with a bang in the middle of the London Web Week. This time we have our friends from Moo.com to enlighten us on everything Moo. Moo mini cards and Moo stickers are real geek accessories so come to talk to the guys who made it happen.

Quite a few changes this time though. First off, we are going to meet up in a very nice Thai restaurant with whom we have been able to arrange a nice variety of food. Costs for food and venue will be £8.

The second change is that Upcoming won’t be our main location for signing up anymore. For multiple reasons we decided to use a custom build event manager, which even allows you to pay in advance. Paying in advanced makes arranging a venue so much more easy for us, so please pay in advanced if you’re sure you want to come. Alternatively we will be at quite a few events before the 29th so you can also pay us on one of those days already.

So go to http://signup.geekdinner.co.uk/event/moo/ to sign up. Don’t forget to mention any special messages like whether or not you’re vegetarian.

When: Thursday, May 29th, 2008, 6:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Where: ThaiSmile Restaurant
Nearest Tube: Holborn
Special Guests: The Moo.com Crew
Cost: 8 pounds for buffet and venue
Upcoming: 671426
Signup: http://signup.geekdinner.co.uk/event/moo/

May 14, 2008 | Filed Under geekdinner | 2 Comments 

Looking back at Joint London Girl Geek/Geek dinner with Dr. Sophie Kain

The latest joined Girl Geek/Geek dinner was a blast. The venue was much better than the last few we used (although slightly warm and lacking natural light and windows). Quite a few people showed up to see Dr. Sophie Kain and to say thanx/goodbye to Ian who is moving to Manchester.

Melinda and I spend the whole afternoon looking for some presents for Ian’s birthday but I think we did well. Nicole made a nice binary cake surprise and a couple of people made a video which I hope to see online sometime soon. For now here are some of the photos.

April 30, 2008 | Filed Under geekdinner | 1 Comment 

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