London GeekDinner on Open Fonts
Time for some more geeking out with some fellow geeks. Joining us will be Dave Crossland who is currently working on the Open Font Library v2.
With the introduction of the first drafts of the HTML5/CSS3 specs and with it the introduction of the possibilities to include video, audio and custom fonts into a website is becoming a lot easier. Dave will be walking us through some of the details of the @font-face CSS rule and the eminent web font revolution that will follow.
We don’t have a venue yet but as usual it will be in central London and I will let all of you know when I’ve found a venue.
When: Thursday, September 17th 2009 18:30
Where: TBA
Speakers: Dave Crossland
Topic: Open Fonts
Cost: Buy your own food (most of it for £5)
Nearest tube: TBA
Signup: Signup on EventBrite
London Geek Dinner with Mozilla Labs
The awesome team from Mozilla Labs London have agreed to join us at a Geek Dinner on the 28th! We’re going to try and turn this into an old fashioned proper Geek Dinner again, in a nice pub with some beer and food, and maybe even some cash behind the bar for us to enjoy some free drinks. For now all we can confirm is that on the 28th Jane Finette & Pascal Finette will be joining us for a talk on Weave, Ubiquite, Jetpack, and of course the newest release of Firefox version 3.5.
We’ll be changing location this time, heading directly for the pub where we can have some drinks and food. The pub is located within walking distance from London Bridge station and has cheap food and nice drinks. We hope to see you all there on Tuesday!
When: Tuesday, July 28th 2009 18:30
Where: The Miller
Speakers: Jane Finette & Pascal Finette
Topic: Mozilla Labs
Cost: Buy your own food (most of it for £5)
Nearest tube: London Bridge
Signup: Signup on EventBrite
Mini-GeekDinner with Dave Birch
Joining us for our next Mini-GeekDinner on April 16th will be Dave Birch of Consult Hyperion.
David G.W. Birch is a Director of Consult Hyperion, a global IT management consultancy that specialises in electronic transactions,. Before helping to found Consult Hyperion in 1986, he spent several years working as a consultant in Europe, the Far East and North America. Described by The Independent as a ‘grade-A geek’, and by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation as ‘one of the most user-friendly of the UK’s uber-techies’; he is well-known for his “Second Sight” columns in The Guardian’s Online supplement.
Dave will talking about Consult Hyperion’s work on M-Pesa. (Featured on the BBC and all good news outlets.) The M-Pesa payments service is used by 17% of Kenyans [5.5m users], with over 10,000 signing up every day. Despite objections by mainstream Kenyan banks, M-Pesa’s growth not only avoided regulatory issues, but helped trigger legal reforms to open Kenya’s money transfer market.
Dinner will be upstairs at the Holborn Hummus Bros in Holborn at 6:30PM. It’s buy your own dinner (about £15 a head) and book early as it’s not a large venue! To let us know that you’re coming and reserve your ticket, email me at mseckington@gmail.com.
Mini-GeekDinner with Jeff Keni Pulver
It’s time for the first Mini GeekDinner of 2009! Come and join us on Tuesday January 27th where our honoured guest will be Jeff Keni Pulver; “Technology Anthropologist; Entrepreneur; Early-Stage Seed Investor; speaker, Living in Social Media”.
We’re going to be in our usual place again, Hummus Brothers in Holborn (first floor) and we’ll commence at about 6:30PM. be sure to join us and please let us know if you’re coming on our signup page.
Mini-GeekDinner with James Gardner
It’s been a bit quiet here lately, but we’ve got another interesting mini GeekDinner lined up for you all. To mix things up a little bit, we’re joining forces this time with the OpenFinanceCoffeeClub, a small meetup event for finance/tech people.
Joining us is James Gardner, the Head of Innovation and Research at Lloyds TSB. He will talk a bit about the book he has got coming out soon and tell us some amusing anecdotes about medieval banking datacentres and internal bureaucracy.
Because we are hosting this together with the OpenFinanceCoffeeClub, the number of places will be split evenly between the two. This means 15 spots available for GeekDinner people, 15 for OpenFinanceCoffeeClub members.
Again the venue will be our regular Hummus Bros in Holborn at 18:30. Food will be on a get your own basis, so no need to pay online. If you’re running late and can’t find us at the Holborn place anymore, we’ve probably moved on to the pub down the street.
When: Tuesday, November 18th 2008 18:30
Where: Hummus Bros in Holborn
Speaker: James Gardner
Cost: Food and drinks on buy your own basis
Please RSVP on our signup site if you are coming, there is only limited seating.