Post Mortem - Geek Dinner @ TechEd

We generated lots of buzz about a Geek Dinner during TechEd - Splatt & Mark planted the meme and I ran with it.

I had my doubts about the venue and asked Splatt to scope it out during the day - which he did and this caused the venue to change, but not by much.

The time came to make the trek through Civic and off we went. We collected a few willing participants along the way and soon invaded one of the local Irish pubs. Phones rang, people wanted to know where we were and slowly a crowd grew. I knew we were onto something when the student ambassadors arrived - but where was Bernard?????

Anyways, we order food, drink and good geek networking was had by all. I guess this still qualifies as a Geek Dinner, even though there was no WiFi and people werent blogging live, 'cause there were lots and lots of geeks!

So far, I think we only had one of our geeks M.I.A

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 04, 2004
  TechEd is alive and thriving, excellent sessions, brilliant people and amazing technologies - really. Last night was the Geek Dinner, then the long running After-Geek-Dinner. It was a great night out. We're showing off the TV Prognosticator. There has been...
• Anonymous
  August 09, 2004
  Highlight of the Geek Dinner at King O'Malley's: the pizza was absolutely incredible. I only got one slice though, cos Jason Brown was committed to snaffling the rest.
• Anonymous
  August 10, 2004
  They came, they drank and they were merry.... The 1st Australian GeekDinner, during Tech.Ed in Canberra, was a raging success (photo's here)...After the last session of the day at Tech.Ed, a number of us headed up to King O'Malley's Irish Pub in Canberra's Civic centre and what did we find??? A veritable gaggle of geeks...Moving the venue from a cafe...
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  June 11, 2009
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