Its a new Month & I'm conscious that its only 14 days until the next Reading Geek Night. So, as usual I'm looking for four people to speak. If you are interested then drop me a mail ( jim at...
Posted on 09 September 2010 - 1 Comment
Theres a great review of our event on 10th August on the GlobalDev blog Reading Geek Night 11 will be on Tuesday 14th September. If you'd like to talk at that event then get in touch. For details nearer to...
Posted on 08 August 2010 - 1 Comment
If you would like to do a talk at Reading Geek Night on the 10th August, now is the time to get in touch. As usual there are two types of slot we are looking to fill... Two 15/20 minute...
Posted on 07 July 2010 - No Comments
My guess is that a good proportion of those who come along each month, either design things, or code things, or are in someway involved in making things.... At the last Reading Geek Night (partly inspired by Alan Bradburnes talk),...
Posted on 07 July 2010 - 7 Comments
Reading Geek Night started as a blog post saying that if one person offered to do a talk and ten people promised to turn up, I would organise it. Since then we have had around 20 brilliant talks over 7...
Posted on 06 June 2010 - 12 Comments
OK... Reading Geek Night isn't about politics, but I'm guessing most of us have a big stake in the future of the internet in the UK. The Digital Economy Bill is passing through parliament now (Some of you would have...
Posted on 03 March 2010 - 3 Comments
It would be great if you could print out an A3 poster for Reading Geek Night 5 and pop it on your notice board at work. The more people who come along... the bigger the pool of people to...
Posted on 03 March 2010 - No Comments
I've been thinking a lot recently about the best way to organise the talks for Reading Geek Night. So far its always 'come together' at the last minute, but thats led to a couple of issues... Until the full line...
Posted on 01 January 2010 - 1 Comment
Three things have prompted me to change the plans for this month's Reading Geek Night . Because everyone has been busy (plus the whole Christmas and New Year thing), we had fewer talks lined up than usual. With the recent...
Posted on 01 January 2010 - 6 Comments
OK... So I know I said that it would be on the second tuesday of the month... but (mainly due to me not getting off my bottom) Copa is double booked for 12th January. Therefore, the date for the next...
Posted on 12 December 2009 - No Comments
Here's the poster for Reading Geek 2. ( A3 PDF 1M here ). Once again it would be great if you could print it out and put it on display somewhere where fellow geeks will see it. Last time, with...
Posted on 12 December 2009 - 3 Comments
With two weeks to go before the second Reading Geek Night (7.30pm Monday 7th December), its time to start putting together the speaker list. (I also want to start getting an idea of speakers for January as Xmas is going...
Posted on 11 November 2009 - 1 Comment
Seeing as everyone took the time to fill in the (v. low tech) feedback forms at the end of last weeks event, I thought it only fair that I feedback what the feedback was (!) On the tick boxes it...
Posted on 11 November 2009 - 4 Comments
So after a month of thinking & planning we had the first Reading Geek Night!. Having read through the feedback that everyone kindly provided I think I can say that it was a success! I didn't get a proper count...
Posted on 11 November 2009 - 2 Comments
With less than a week to go before the first Reading Geek Night, here's a way you can help publicise the event (though don't go mad, its our first one and I don't want to over-do it). If you have...
Posted on 11 November 2009 - 1 Comment
So following on from the last post I popped down to have a look at Copa this afternoon. I think it should work as a venue... Its a private space, we can bring a projector and point it at a...
Posted on 10 October 2009 - 4 Comments
Heres the latest on venues... Lots of people have said that RISC would be good - unfortunately they can't do anything on Tuesday nights (unless there will be fewer than 10 of us). People who have come back to me...
Posted on 10 October 2009 - 7 Comments
Had some good discussions with people at #rdgtweetup on Wednesday evening about formats etc (and there were lots of people who I would have liked to talk with, but having arrived late, wasn't able to), but the immediate priority now...
Posted on 10 October 2009 - 4 Comments
A couple of days ago I wrote a blog post outlining my thoughts about organising some sort of monthly 'geek' event in Reading. In the post I said... If we get at least ten people who can attend and one...
Posted on 10 October 2009 - No Comments
There was a good conversation today on Google Wave today about the Reading Geek Night idea. Unfortunately a lot of people weren't able to join in. I wanted to cut & paste the conversation into the blog so that others...
Posted on 10 October 2009 - No Comments
I've been thinking about organising some sort of 'geek night' event in Reading for a while. Having spoken to a few people, the concensus seems to be that there are enough local tech types who would be up for it to...
Posted on 10 October 2009 - 2 Comments