GeekDinner: Eccentric Eggplant reportback

30 Nov 2007

The Eccentric Eggplant may have been the best GeekDinner yet.  We had a great turn-out (just not enough to have to have people eat their food standing), and our first attempt at Slideshow Karaoke was brilliant.

It all went down at Ferryman's on Wednesday (ie, the 28th November 2007). 

Jonathan Hitchcock, our logistics occifer, was our MC again, and also our first Karaoke victim.  But, before that, we had Adrian Moisey talking about OpenStreetMap, and Jennie Stenhouse talking about her experiences in the Games industry (not "gaming" as in gambling).

After Jonathan's Karaoke on the etiquette one must follow when dealing with British Royalty, we had Adrianna Pińska presenting on licenses and Charl van Niekerk talking on the Google Summer of Code, and on his experiences working on Joomla! recently on it.

Bryn Divey then brought the roof down with laughter as he gave his Karaoke on a topic that doesn't matter as much as the way he presented it.  The DoD's long-term plan to have the CIA start Facebook to collect all our data featured.  "Privacy is part of Web 1.0" was well-received as well.

Finally, Albert Visagie gave us some information on the Cape Town chapter of the Software Process Improvement Network.

Lots of new faces, and lots of people talking to people they hardly new and making new connections - that's really what makes doing work (no matter how little) on these GeekDinners worth it.  Why not help organise the next one, by joining the GeekDinner planning mailing list?  Or sign up to hear about the next on the GeekDinner announce mailing list.

1 Responses

  1. Shayan Raghavjee — December 18, 2007 at 06:04 PM.

    Gah, missed it again. This time due to an unwanted early start to my hols. Sounds like it was a blast.

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