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Geekdinner Antwerp Edition 2

Kris Buytaert — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:14:29 +0000

Last Wednesday after the LSec event with Bruce Schneier and the R ans S from RSA , we already had a mini AdHoc GeekDinner in Leuven, one that pretty would have matched Philips requirements for having it called Geek dinner

Philip has been ranting this week about different events titled "Geek" not attrackting real geeks. that know hex and binary is but merely atrackting the Startup/Web crowd, now there's nothing wrong with both crowds, and I happen to be part of both but it can cause strange situations
Geekdinner.beTom K arranged a nice deal with De Troubadour so foodwise it promises to be great.

And with the list currently showing a variety of
Linux and BSD geeks, (both on Kernel and System Level it seems) the Apache geeks , some Ruby geeks, some Legal geeks, some Java geeks, etc that part should be covered ..

So I`m pretty sure that the majority of Geeks at the upcoming Geekdinner will realize there are only 10 kind of people

Still missing however from that list are the Drupal and PHP folks, the Django crowd, some Distribution geeks, some Gnome Geeks and some KDE geeks. Heck you all know I`m talking about you .. so go and subscribe here

I hope we aren't scaring away too much folks with this really Open Source oriented GeekDinner :)

PS. And yes I think it's time for Elise to organise a Real Belgian Girl Geek Dinner :)

Am I expecting too much from my readers ?

Kris Buytaert — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:41:25 +0000

My last post, titled T-Dose CFP, got a comment from Bobby that people reading my feed from Planet MySQL couldn't possibly understand my post because of the lack of context.

So let me repost it..

Geekdinner is an unformal dinner where geeks meet , here in Belgium , but also at other places around the world, Every couple of months we meet , have dinner and chat about geeky stuff , such as tech conferences, mysql, drupal, jboss and other topics.

One of these topics was T-Dose , The Technical Dutch Open Source Event, which has their Call For Papers / Presentations available , so if you want to present there .. you have to tell them.

Bert Boerland gave a talk about Drupal there last year and Some Abstract Type, aka Geert Vanderkelen , MySQL/ Sun has also been spotted there before.

Would this be enough context or do you folks need more ?

Is my idea that people click on links to get more info , or even that people understand what a CFP is wrong ?

T-Dose 2008 CFP

Kris Buytaert — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:55:44 +0000

At this weeks' geekdinner some people wondered what was up with T-Dose, and guess what .. their CFP has been out for ages.

Last year I just catched the end of Bert's talk and Some Abstract Type has also been spotted there before.

No reason to miss this year's edition.

Geek Cooking

Kris Buytaert — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:57:12 +0000

Bart promises to cook for us if there aren't enough of us travelling to Limburg.

Which makes me wonder maybe we should organize a Geek Cooking Dinner ..

There is something about geeks and cooking ,dunno what.. couple of years ago we did a cooking workshop with some collegues and more than 60% of them really liked to cook.

And we can even eat ourselve to death when stuffing ourselves with Drupal Pie

Any Takers ? Should have thought about this earlier.. certainly with the Piemaker in the country :)

Recovering

Kris Buytaert — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:44:03 +0000

Yesterday I was just exhausted ,

Wednesday was a thrill, after a great Plugg organised by Robin, we organized an Ad Hoc Brussels Geekdinner chez Henri in order to finish up with Open BeerClub (BTW Bruno how many points do you get for that ?)

It's weird how I keep running into demoscene people that are all starting or already running interesting projects. About 15 years ago we were all partying at Assembly, The Party, Wired etc .. we lost touch , stopped calling eachothers BBS's
and now years later ... we meet again

I wonder if my old Buster BBS account is still working at it's younger version :)

Yesterday after from locking myselve out of my house and car (thank god for wifi) I made it to LinuxWorldExpo Brussels , a the usual Linux suspects combined with a bunch people selling overpriced disks and a some irrelevant software vendors that think security still is a product that can be bought , pathetic.

The fun part is running into the whole Belgian IT crowd, the sad part is it's the same people over and over again.

Well.. it was fun.. met some new people ... got some really good news ... but now it's time to get some work done again ...

Got interviewed by O'Reilly GMT

Kris Buytaert — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:13:06 +0000

I got interviewed by Craig from O'Reilly GMT's for their Scenius series.

I tried to write down as much as possible of what's going on in our little country, but I`m pretty sure I missed a lot.

Weird thing is that according to Bruno's stats .. I`m not missing out on that much .. but then again .. remember what Benjamin said.

Announcing GeekDinner 6, Antwerp Edition

Kris Buytaert — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:26:10 +0000

So we doodled and now we have a Date , a Location , and a Page to Sign up for the evening.

The majority of votes said we should meet on monday October 22 the which is what we'll do. I figured out that Kasteel Steytelinck in Wilrijk would be a good location with parking space and easy to reach from different highways.

And we also have a Wiki where you can Sign up for the event so we at least have an idea a how how many people will show up

Next Geekdinner : Antwerpen

Kris Buytaert — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:01:18 +0000

Serge asked me to organise the next edition of our famous
Geekdinners in my backyard, Antwerp

I have 2 potential locations but the most important thnig we need today is an idea of which date suits most people best.

We're using Doodle to vote for an appropriate Date .
Vote here