Comments on: Geek Dinner http://www.nickcoyne.com/wp/2007/03/30/geekdinner/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:00:31 -0800 hourly 1 By: Nic http://www.nickcoyne.com/wp/2007/03/30/geekdinner/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Nic Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:06:15 +0000 http://www.nickcoyne.com/wp/?p=88#comment-194 Stefano, if i knew how to do that, then I would ;) Stefano, if i knew how to do that, then I would ;)

]]> By: Neil Blakey-Milner http://www.nickcoyne.com/wp/2007/03/30/geekdinner/comment-page-1/#comment-193 Neil Blakey-Milner Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:31:05 +0000 http://www.nickcoyne.com/wp/?p=88#comment-193 Actually, I have a simple idea - we don't have the food find the people, we have the people find the food. Actually, I have a simple idea – we don’t have the food find the people, we have the people find the food.

]]> By: Stefano Rivera http://www.nickcoyne.com/wp/2007/03/30/geekdinner/comment-page-1/#comment-192 Stefano Rivera Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:29:49 +0000 http://www.nickcoyne.com/wp/?p=88#comment-192 Nic, can you give us a full-post RSS feed for Planet GeekDinner, at the moment, only the summary of your posts appears. Nic, can you give us a full-post RSS feed for Planet GeekDinner, at the moment, only the summary of your posts appears.

]]> By: Neil Blakey-Milner http://www.nickcoyne.com/wp/2007/03/30/geekdinner/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Neil Blakey-Milner Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:11:33 +0000 http://www.nickcoyne.com/wp/?p=88#comment-191 Swapping seats makes the dinner and billing part of things pretty hard, but I'm sure we can come up with an enterprising way to deal with that. For example, having everyone carry a number about, and having to use that when ordering drinks and food. And some way for the dinner and drinks people to find them if they move... Sorry I never got around to meeting you, Nick - I was quite keen to talk to you on your efforts to find Ruby and Rails people. (I promise not to suggest trying Python...) Neil Swapping seats makes the dinner and billing part of things pretty hard, but I’m sure we can come up with an enterprising way to deal with that. For example, having everyone carry a number about, and having to use that when ordering drinks and food. And some way for the dinner and drinks people to find them if they move…

Sorry I never got around to meeting you, Nick – I was quite keen to talk to you on your efforts to find Ruby and Rails people. (I promise not to suggest trying Python…)

Neil

]]> By: Nic http://www.nickcoyne.com/wp/2007/03/30/geekdinner/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Nic Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:53:32 +0000 http://www.nickcoyne.com/wp/?p=88#comment-190 I think the intro idea for the wiki is great. Maybe just a one sentence bio, and the company you work for. I'm all for short time slots, but it was clear that some people handn't prepared for a 5min or 3min slot. Jeremy and Jonathan got pretty close - as long as people are <em>trying</em> to keep it short then I don't think there's a problem I think the intro idea for the wiki is great. Maybe just a one sentence bio, and the company you work for.

I’m all for short time slots, but it was clear that some people handn’t prepared for a 5min or 3min slot. Jeremy and Jonathan got pretty close – as long as people are trying to keep it short then I don’t think there’s a problem

]]> By: Joe http://www.nickcoyne.com/wp/2007/03/30/geekdinner/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Joe Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:43:35 +0000 http://www.nickcoyne.com/wp/?p=88#comment-189 Musical chairs could be fun (-: Maybe a longer mingling session before and after, keeping the food part shorter. The name tags were a good start to promote networking I think. We could ask people to put a small intro about who they are and what they do on the wiki.. maybe even with a photo.. that way you can figure out your list of people to target before the event. Henk also commented on the length of the talks. We could do this in two ways.. 1) be strict about the time but give enough time, 2) set short time slots but let it run over as people ask questions. I think this dinner ran with number 2. We can test the other option. Musical chairs could be fun (-:

Maybe a longer mingling session before and after, keeping the food part shorter. The name tags were a good start to promote networking I think. We could ask people to put a small intro about who they are and what they do on the wiki.. maybe even with a photo.. that way you can figure out your list of people to target before the event.

Henk also commented on the length of the talks. We could do this in two ways.. 1) be strict about the time but give enough time, 2) set short time slots but let it run over as people ask questions.

I think this dinner ran with number 2. We can test the other option.

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