http://geekdinner.co.uk Where geeks in London come out to play Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:54:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those who attended last years Geek Dinner with Brady Forrest, we have some good news: the O'Reilly crew is back in town and offering to hold a little part of their own! They have invited us to come along this Wednesday and have some drinks with them at the ... http://geekdinner.co.uk/2008/06/14/geek-drinks-with-the-oreilly-web2expo-conference-co-chairs/ 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 ... http://geekdinner.co.uk/2008/06/13/mini-geekdinner-with-dean-jansen-from-miro/ 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 ... http://geekdinner.co.uk/2008/06/06/geek-dinner-poll-1/ After a great coffee last week, we can now announce our next Girl Geek Coffee. A lot of girl geeks have asked for this, so for the first time the coffee will be on a Saturday (7th June). Now all of you have no excuses for not coming! So where will ... http://geekdinner.co.uk/2008/06/03/london-girl-geek-coffee-5/ 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 ... http://geekdinner.co.uk/2008/06/02/looking-back-on-the-geek-dinner-with-moo-with-photos-and-video/ I've been a bit busy lately and didn't find the time to organize a GGC 2 weeks ago. To make up for that though we'll have two in the next two weeks! This first one may be a bit short notice, but it will take place in two days time ... http://geekdinner.co.uk/2008/05/20/london-girl-geek-coffee-4/ 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 ... http://geekdinner.co.uk/2008/05/14/london-geekdinner-with-moo/ 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 ... http://geekdinner.co.uk/2008/04/30/looking-back-at-joint-london-girl-geekgeek-dinner-with-dr-sophie-kain/ During the first Geek Meet we got to think about organizing big day out to places outside of London. So, Neil Crosby came up with the idea of a Big Geek Day Out. The first one will be on August 2nd, which is quite far away, but at least you ... http://geekdinner.co.uk/2008/04/22/big-geek-day-out-alton-towers/ So, Sunday we had the first Geek Meet and it was quite a success for an unorganized, social meetup of geeks. We started out at the Starbucks behind County Hall and after 2 hours of lounging and chatting about Net Neutrality, Flickr Video, and other geek stuff, we headed out ... http://geekdinner.co.uk/2008/04/22/looking-back-at-geek-meet-1/