Stefano Rivera (Posts about geekdinner)

Videos up

Stefano Rivera — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:43:11 GMT

Administravia: Just uploaded a pile of videos:

Geekdinner Sep 2008
GStreamer CLUG Talk
PEP3118 CTPUG Talk (this one has been sitting around for a while)
Mayavi CTPUG Talk

Also, I changed a few feeds on CLUG Park from RSS to Atom, so sorry about any RSS-reader-spamming.

September GeekDinner

Stefano Rivera — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:58:10 GMT

Looks like the September Geekdinner list is filling up nicely. To anyone on the waiting list, keep an eye on that wiki right up to the last moment: we Capetonians are notorious for dropping out at the last minute, especially if the weather is bad. I'd expect a reasonable number of drop-outs - we thought the last dinner was going to be overflowing, and there was still space at the end.

I've just done a round of updates on Planet GeekDinner and I'm glad to see a good sprinkling of new faces (or is that geeks with new websites?). If you'd like your GeekDinner related posts to be syndicated on the planet and I've missed your blog or got the wrong website please let me know.

GeekDinner meets Linkedin

Stefano Rivera — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:57:57 GMT

I've finally jumped on the Linkedin bandwagon. Amongst other things, I've added a GeekDinner Group.

GeekDinner Talk videos

Stefano Rivera — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:03:34 GMT

I videoed the talks at recent Eccentric Eggplant GeekDinner. The videos are available in Ogg format, and should play in VLC. Like the CLUG talks, they are all available in 3 qualities. Don't expect to be able to read slides in anything but the high quality version.

South African Mirror - at UCT, slow during office hours
UK Mirror

Planet Geekdinner for *camp

Stefano Rivera — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:54:59 GMT

I've updated planet geekdinner to pick up *camp posts.

As usual, as long as your post mentions the words *camp or geek-dinner, it should make the planet. We can no longer use tag feeds, as "geekdinner" and "*camp" are generally separate tags.

For regex geeks, the regex is ([gG]eek[ -]?[dD]inner|([sS]tar|\*)[ -]?[cC]amp)

On another note, I don't know if I'm going to make star-camp - I might well be away that weekend. But hopefully I'll be there.

Planet GeekDinner filters

Stefano Rivera — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:04:32 GMT

Planet GeekDinner has been filling up with lots of non-geek-dinner related cruft. So I've taken advantage of Planet Venus's cool filtering system.

Any feed that doesn't have a "GeekDinner" category feed, is being filtered, and only posts containing the regex [gG]eek[ -]?[dD]inner are being displayed. I.e. If you mention GeekDinner in your post, it will appear on the planet.

I'm also filtering Rafiq's geekdinner category, as he seems to post everything under "geekdinner" :-)

Oh, BTW, Nice job with the skin, Joe.

UPDATE: Rafiq is unfiltered again - I didn't read thoroughly enough to see the geekdinner reference as a footnote in your Dell IdeaStorm Post. You have quite a busy site, I thought I'd reached the end of the article when it said "REad more... | Digg Story").

BTW, Rafiq, seeing as you will probably see this, can you sort out your avatar on the CLUG Park planet? I had to resize it to be the standard size, and it now looks very pixellated.

GeekDinner

Stefano Rivera — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:28:18 GMT

OK, so joe got me into sorting out a planet venus for geekdinner. And I've also tweaked their mediawiki a little.

Planet Venus is the first time I've used bzr, it's really quite a cool RCS, I think I'll use it more often... While I'm quite a subversion user, working away from home is a pain. SVK helps but it doesn't go as far as a real distributed RCS like bzr. Nice job ubunteros :-)