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Bloomington Geek Dinner
A Geek Dinner is an opportunity for technically-minded people to get together and chat about technology over food and drinks. Dinner groups exist in such widely varying places as London, South Africa, New Orleans, and Louisville, while other locations like Seattle and Silicon Valley tend to spontaneously organize the events around a particular blogger or web site.
The Bloomington group held its first dinner at Max's Place, on October 23rd, 2007 at 7PM. The turnout was quite good with 18 people out of an expected 8 showing up. Since then dinners have been held at various locations around Bloomington. As the word has gotten out, more and more people are coming.
The next Geek Dinner will be held at the Irish Lion on June 3rd, 2014.
The first Geek Dinner of 2008 was held at El Norteno on January 30th, 2007. A wide variety of attendees came from several different companies, as well as many IU students and faculty.
A Geek Picnic was held at Bryan Park on June 29th, 2008. Geeks and their families attended.
Locations and dates:
- Irish Lion on June 3rd, 2014
- Uptown Cafe on February 19th, 2014
- El Norteño on September 25th, 2013
- Max's Place on March 20th, 2013
- ... and then time passed ...
- Envisage Technologies on April 5th, 2010
- Irish Lion on February 3rd, 2010
- Max's Place on October 6th, 2009
- Sproutbox on August 13th, 2009
- La Charreada on May 4th, 2009
- Dunn Inn on March 3rd, 2009 (around 25 attendees. A surprising number of geeks bugged out to watch the IU Men's Basketball game!)
- Max's Place on January 14th, 2009 (about 45 people showed up including 4 children)
- Malibu Grill on October 14th, 2008
- Bryan Park on June 29th, 2008
- Crazy Horse on May 6th,. 2008
- Michael's Uptown Cafe on March 20th, 2008
- El Norteño on January 30th, 2007
Discussion topics
- Artificial Intelligence
- The Birthday Problem
- The number 23
- Homeland Security
- Protective equipment for motorcycle riding
- Cost of data-jacks vs. phone jacks at IU
- Creating easily changable database schemas
- Complex system interfaces
- The Amazon Kindle
- Bad Capacitor electrolyte in video cards
Attendees
People from Envisage, Information In Place, Interactive Intellegence (Indy), School of Informatics, UITS, Cook, Suso have attended.
- Amitai Schleier - formerly of Pillar Technology
- Ben Fulton - Envisage
- Casey - Envisage
- Cathy - School of Informatics
- Chris Eller - UITS
- Christan Briggz - School of Informatics
- David - Envisage
- Felix - Interactive Intelligence
- Jacob Farmer - UITS
- Jason - Envisage
- Jennifer - Envisage
- Jeremia - School of Informatics
- Jess Falkenthal - School of Informatics and telecommutes to National 4-H Council
- Jonathan Schalliol - Information in Place
- Josh - Envisage and School of Informatics
- Justin Donaldson - School of Informatics
- Kayce Reed-Buechlein - Cornerstone Information Systems
- Kevin Makice - School of Informatics
- Mark - Telecommutes to a job in Austin. Just moved here from Austin.
- Mark Bell - IU Department of Telecommunications
- Mark Krenz - IU Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, Suso
- Michelle - Envisage
- Rick - Envisage
- Sarah Robbins- "Intellagirl"
- Scott - UITS
- William R. Hazlewod "Richie" - School of Informatics
- Larry Yaeger, School of Informatics among other things
- Steve Volan, The Cinemat, Politics
External Links
- Bloomington Geek Dinner's Facebook Group
- Invitation to the inaugural event
- This site was the former official website for Bloomington Geek Dinners However the domain wasn't renewed in 2011 and fell to a domain broker and then became something else.] Archived page Archived domain squatter girl