{"id":92,"date":"2007-02-28T09:21:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T07:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=92"},"modified":"2007-02-28T09:21:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T07:21:27","slug":"27-dinner-cape-town-off-to-rocky-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"27 dinner Cape Town off to rocky start"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended the 27 dinner<\/a> last night, and have to say it was disappointing. Swimgeek<\/a> and Jacques Marneweck<\/a> Marnewreck<\/del> can tell you just how disappointing they found it.<\/p>\n

I have a sightly different perspective though. It wasn’t a geek dinner, and was never meant to be. The 27 dinner describes itself as a get-together for geeks, marketers, entrepreneurs, writers, media practitioners, speakers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And that’s what makes it potentially interesting. The crossover between various disciplines. The Digital Citizens Indaba<\/a> was a roaring success of an example, where media people, activists, technologists, marketers produced an interesting dynamic.<\/p>\n

It didn’t work last night, as the focus was too strongly on marketing, what was said wasn’t particularly interesting, and the geeks were bored. I was sitting in the riotous geek corner that was probably most dissatisfied with the talks.<\/p>\n

To give some credit, the venue and food were excellent. The only complaint about this, half-joking, was that it wasn’t dark enough, with no pizza and no wires everywhere – i.e. a ‘typical’ geek dinner. It was well-presented with the sound being clear, and rotating slides of all the attendees blogs being a nice touch. All the little details that so often let events like these down were taken care of. <\/p>\n

My personal favourite presentation was iamverity<\/a>, who showed passion and heart, which always grabs the attention.<\/p>\n

Mike recognised the shortfalls, and that’s why next time<\/a> has been designated a blogger-only event, and he’s attempted to press-gang a few more diverse speakers, including me \ud83d\ude42 Let’s hope next time is more successful.<\/p>\n

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