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 up of speakers is confirmed, its difficult to publicise the event. The posters for rdggeek 1 & 2 seemed to go down well, but in both cases they were only produced a couple of days before the event. I think that to be effective we'd need to get them out there at least a week in advance.
• I'm realising that one of the most valuable things I can do is to try and 'balance' the talks for each event - the feedback from the first time was clear - you want it to be an eclectic evening. Pulling things together at the last minute means that I don't have the ability to shuffle things around to make sure that each evening gives a range of different types of talk.

So... what I want to do - and will need your help doing it - is to get a "pipeline" of potential talks going and start pencilling them in for future events. That way we make sure we get the right mix at each event and I'll keep my hair for a little bit longer!

I'm going to start with the next three events (Feb 9th/ Mar 9th / Apr 13th). There are two things you can do to help Reading Geek Night be a success in 2010...

1. If you can do a 5 or 15 minute talk slot in the next three months or so then let me know. It doesn't have to be a fully formed idea, just expressions of interest will do.
2. If you know someone else who you'd like to see do a talk, then butter them up (or whatever your favoured persuasion mechanism is) and get in touch

You can get in touch via the comments, or jim at readinggeeknight.com, or DM @rdggeek or @JimAnning. Look forward to hearing from you.