Re: geek meet

[Howard Dickins]

<Snigger!>  I *like* these.  Well done Carl.

See you on Monday!   Have a good weekend everyone!

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Carl Morris <ca...@nativehq.com> wrote:

OK, names.. I think it should be something with a hint of the ridiculous.

Bring Your Own Robot
Broken Plastic
Monetize, My Arse
GarageBandit
Break My Plastic
myGarage

You get it.

C

Steve Anderson wrote:

My thoughts - we should be interesting and fun, not building business
relationships or trying to employ each other. That's why I've not been
to the Cardiff Web Geeks things - sounds too much like a networking
event. I'd rather chat about hooking up till displays to Linux-powered
laptops, beating a bunch of Javascript into working in Adobe AIR and
how cool toy robots these days are compared to back in the day.

Names, well... I'm prepared to drop Tech Bastard (which I insist is a
good name) for GEEKbang (as previously mentioned), but if you turned
up to something called either of them you know you're not there to
further your career. As Carl points out, the correct name is key.

We Are Nerdy Geeks. WANG for short. Ho ho ho.

Steve

2009/2/20 Carl Morris <ca...@nativehq.com>:

I've copied Howard in again... and Steve. We were struggling for a name.

Ian, I know you have the name Cardiff Geeks but I think that was more
towards computing. I wonder if that's appropriate for a name now?

Maybe we could call it something like Non-Network.
Or the Anti-Network.
I think the name is really key to helping people to understand what it is.
Cool things can result.

Web people have gone a bit "meet-up" crazy of late in Cardiff. It's good but
it's not what we do. Our distinctive is pure play and having fun - as I see
it.

My greatest fear is seeing a business card at this thing. Heh!

C

Ian Wootten wrote:

Exactly, thats the way I understand it. Maybe some tweets re-iterating
what's going on would be better.

Like: "For all those coming to the Geek event to network - don't!"

Ian

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Carl Morris <ca...@nativehq.com> wrote:

Howard / Ian

Do we need some kind of web page for Geek meet-up?

This guy is conflating it with worky things.. e.g.
http://twitter.com/Foomandoonian/status/1231119361
which it isn't..

As I understand it, Howard's idea is to have people just having fun and
"hacking", including battle re-enacters, comic book enthusiasts and
non-computer people who are geeks.. And not neccessarily "networking" to
generate business or anything like that.

cheers

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