Time for yet another London Geek Dinner, this time with special guest David Terrar, who will talk about “Creativity”. The talk will focus on creativity and how the current education system is broke, designed for a 19th century industrial age, and how web2.0 tools can improve creativity.
We haven’t found a venue yet, as our previous home for the Geek Dinners has been letting us down lately, but we will announce it shortly.
When: Monday, April 7, 2008, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Where: TBA Special Guests:David Terrar Cost: attending is free, cost for food will be announced soon Upcoming: 465933
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The Geekdinners are coming thick and fast now, In the forth one of this year we have special guest Holmes Wilson one of the brains behind the very popular Miro Player (formally Democracy Player) and the Participatory Culture Foundation. A non-profit group setup to build tools and services that give people more ways to engage with and in their culture..
When: Thursday, March 13, 2008, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Where:Ye Olde Cock Tavern (upstairs bar), 22 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AA Nearest Underground: Temple or Chancery Lane Special Guests:Holmes Wilson Cost: 5 pounds for Food Upcoming: 419336
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So my second Geek Dinner is over and done with, and although I felt it went better, we still had problems with the venue and the food. We might be looking for a new venue somewhere in the future. DataPortability proved to be a very interesting topic as we had way more people show up this time. Lots of new faces which is always a good thing. Below are the photos.
We also tried to stream the talk, but the “The Cloud”-hotspot died after about 10 minutes making even normal internet communication impossible. Maybe next time. Improbulus recorded most of the talk though, which is actually interesting to listen at if you weren’t there. Click through to the full article to see the video. (more…)
By popular demand we have decided to set up a Ustream of the talk tonight. We got someone to give us access to the BT Openzone and have setup a Ustream channel in preparation. Tonight the talk will start at about 8:30, and you can watch the video here.
Unfortunately I think we do still need a better microphone cause in-build microphones for laptops sound awful in video streams. So, if you have a decent mic solution for tonight, please bring it along!
Time for the third Geek Dinner event of the year already. This time I invited two guests, Paul Jones and Ian Forrester, to talk on the very hot topic of DataPortability. If you don’t know what DataPortability is, take a look at the website or this interesting video:
The date is the 27th of February, the venue is the same old Ye Olde Cock Tavern, and this time we will start at about 7:30. Food (open buffet) will be £5, and please let me know if you are coming so that we can guess the amount of food to order. Hope to see you all!
