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24th May Geek Dinner

Posted in Geek Dinners by zimakki on the April 18th, 2007

See here for details. If you have any problems signing up to the wiki please let me know. Also put down any ideas/requests for the night.


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  1. frodo baggins said,

    on April 18th, 2007 at 10:02 pm

    hey whats a geek dinner

  2. zimakki said,

    on April 19th, 2007 at 9:25 am

    A Geek Dinner is basically a dinner for geeks. Extract from wikipedia describing a geek:

    \”A geek is an individual who is fascinated by knowledge and imagination, usually electronic or virtual in nature. Geek may not always have the same meaning as the term nerd. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word geek as \”1: a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake 2: a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked 3: an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity,\” though these are only three of many definitions.\”

    Note: the dinner is for people that fit the 3 definition. If any number 1’s come it might put the rest of us of our food!

    It provides a good opportunity to socialize, meet other developers, talk about new technologies, practices, software and anything they like. I have organised several of these so far. Here are some:

    http://thehughpage.com/DDD4GeekDinner
    http://thehughpage.com/VistaOfficeLaunchGeekDinner
    http://www.zimakki.com/wiki/21st%20March%20Geek%20Dinner.ashx
    http://wiki.webdd.org.uk/GeekDinner.ashx

    And some reviews:
    http://harriyott.com/2007/02/webdd.aspx
    http://psiman.wordpress.com/tag/it/webdd/

    And some photos:
    http://tinyurl.com/33f4b8
    Hope this helps,

    Cheers

    Zi :)


  3. on July 11th, 2007 at 11:24 pm

    Wouldn’t it be better to call your event .net dinner or something like that so people don’t get confused between the two?

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