We spent some time during January's Reading Geek Night thinking about the sort of talks that we would like to line up during the year. I promised to publish them all, so here they are. Feel free to add more ideas in the comments section.

So the ideas are (unedited & in no particular order)....

• Pyrotechnics
• Quake Mapping
• Follow on from South Hill Park talk last year
• 3D printing
• Medicine
• Music & technology
• Group Discussions / Panel Discussions / QA sessions
• Online Gambling
• How to go freelance
• State of the mobile market
• Knitting
• Analogue synthesisers
• Circuit Bending
• The beauty/art of computers
• Architectural patterns in the real world
• The geek atlas to the South East
• Taking better pictures with your phones camera
• Geocaching
• Privacy in the Digital Age
• General principles of electronic repair - focussing on the Xbox
• Basics of home networking
• Robotics + automation
• Formula 1 aerodynamics
• Where technology has been / where it is going
• What if the transistor had never been invented? what would the world be like with 60 years of vacuum tube enhancements
• Semantic Web
• Internet Security
• Home electronics
• Arduino
• BBC Micro programming
• GPS - context maps
• App reviews
• Tour of the UK in Yarn
• Collaborative Workspaces
• Closing the gap between IT & Business
• Darknets / TOR networks
• Off-grid solar power networks
• Computer Art
• Sound Tech
• Police tech
• Digital Surveillance
• Cyborgs
• Web design
• BMW Mini factory
• Cybersecurity / Wikileaks etc
• ipub
• How childrens brains develop
• Stranger than Dilbert
• Neuroscience
• Debate: Windows v Linux v Mac
• Making money as a software start-up (not just taking VC money)
• Quantum Computing
• Music Production Tools
• Kinect
• Computer Languages / APIs
• IPTV
• Library related stuff (from Karen Blakeman)
• Computing in schools
• Information literacy
• Spam & Botnets
• Making money from blogging
• Psychology of group dynamics
• Wikipedia - love/hate

If you want to tackle one of these topics (or any other that you want to) then the process is... send me an email (jim at readinggeeknight.com) with a title; a 2/3 sentence description of the talk; & brief bio - I'll then be in contact and we'll take it from there.

I said that I would be happy to contact people and try and arrange talks as well - so if you can think of anyone who would be a good speaker to have, then let me know and I'll do my best to persuade them to come along.