Time to announce the next GeekDinner. You won’t have to wait all untill September like with the GeekDinner I announced a few days ago, because this time we managed to get some of people behind the BBC iPlayer to join us in only 2 weeks time!

Join us therefore on Thursday August 14th for some food, drinks, and anything you want to know about the BBC iPlayer. Joining us will be Anthony Rose (Head of Digital Media Technology) and Matthew Browning (Senior Software Engineer).

We are going to meet up in the same nice Thai restaurant that we went to last time, and have been able to arrange a nice variety of food again, costs will be £8.

Although the event starts at 6:30pm, the food won’t arrive until 7:30pm and the talk won’t start before 8pm, so no need to get hit by a bus hurrying to make it on time to our venue.

So go to http://signup.geekdinner.co.uk/event/iplayer/ to sign up and maybe even pay in advance. Don’t forget to mention any special messages like whether or not you’re vegetarian.

It is still a bit far away, but on the 10th of September we invite the team of Carsonified to be our guests and tell us about their many endeavors, ranging from their conferences - including FOWA London which is to be held in October - and their products including their latest little pet project called Matt.

Although the event starts at 6:30pm, the food won’t arrive until 7:30pm and the talk won’t start before 8pm, so no need to get hit by a bus hurrying to make it on time to our venue

We are going to meet up in the same nice Thai restaurant that we went to last time, and have been able to arrange a nice variety of food again, costs will be £8.

So go to http://signup.geekdinner.co.uk/event/carsonified/ to sign up and maybe even pay in advance. Don’t forget to mention any special messages like whether or not you’re vegetarian.

For those of you who didn’t know yet: we are having a Geek Dinner on the 29th with the guys from Moo.com as our honored guests. Additionally I decided to use this event to launch the new GeekDinner  Event Manager for signups. All the info on what, where, how, and why is on the blog.

Geek Dinners is going retro!

After some fun during the “Over The Air” conference (some people were playing keynote-bingo) we decided to launch our own IRC channel. Why? Because we can. Plus, it keeps those lengthy discussions between Geek Dinner attendees away from your Twitter feeds.

Where? irc.freenode.net, channel #geekdinner. Everyone is welcome and you are allowed to talk about anything! If you’ve never used IRC before (which means you were probably born after the introduction of the World Wide Web) feel free to ask us over Twitter/MSN/email for instructions.

We “lost” the previous Geek Dinner website (archive.org still has some of it) because we never managed to get our hands on the files and the database after the server went down. So for a while we had a vanilla Wordpress blog which didn’t really represent the Geek Dinner heritage. So with a little effort and less than 2 hours of work I managed to give the site a new look. I even added OpenID and hAvatar support.