Mike Stopforth

[...] From an organizational perspective, the event was perhaps the easiest I’ve ever done. Quite simply, it was one meeting with Stormhoek to get the concept, creating a wiki to explain the concept and get registration, a call to book the venue, and an announcement on this blog. The rest took care of itself – Sound and Recording equipment from Darin the Designer & Captain Chris; pro photography from Pyxels, and publicity courtesy of the bloggers in attendance:-) Thanks everyone for getting involved and contributing. (more, more, more & more) It just confirms for me the effectiveness of collaborative online technologies like wiki’s and blogs as well as the awesomeness of being part of a community of really inspirational people, the passionate, hard-working, intelligent and friendly geeks of South Africa. [...]

[...] Having all sense & sensibility swoooshed away by the deluge of Stormhoek wines generously laid on by Graham Knox at our 1st official Geek Dinner in Cape Town.. I’m glad that the thundering headache in the wake of the fun has finally passed. Just some simple heartfelt THANK YOU’s: Firstly to Dave for the seeming effortlessness with which he organised yet another successful evening. To Graham and Shane of Stormhoek for the intoxicating fun (& personal entropy) To firestarter Gavin Chait who put our efforts in the greater economic & political context & stoked some fiery debate! To Conrad, giving the eloquent geekspin on blogger ID2.0. To the impressive Mike Stopforth who joined us from Jozi (content fell over the Pinotage event horizon but I do remember that his talk was delivered really well) Thankfully Jon Cherry’s red T-shirt was an achor that reminded me that he had launched a blogger competition (?did I imagine this) will have to zip over to the Cherryflava to find out more. Ever sparking Rafiq’s lightning speed wisdom swerved past the inebriated minds.. so if like me you need an encore To Adrian, Drupal hero of open-source publishing, gr8 to reconnect after BarCamp with this Bryght man To musician and designer Darin for the sound equipment & gorgeous ambient beats. To our flight Captain Chris for the speakers.. and bringing Ceri to offset any impression that bloggers can’t be good-looking To Roland for top quality photography from Pyxels To Gina from the Googleplex, gracing Cape Town with her fine self for just two weeks more before heading back to Silicon Valley To Martin who brought the blogger crew from GlobalKinetic & surprised me, wonderful! To Mark of Kaluma, Silicon Valley survivor of Web 1.0 and thriver in Web 2.0 Cape Town To office pal Dr Don of Kreatif, to Joey and Christine, to fresh blogger Pia, to Rafiq’s partner in innovation Miguel, to mindsparking Ashley Shaw …oh gosh I’ll stop now.. to all of our fellow geeks who made the night thoroughly enjoyable.. Thank you for sharing the fun! [...]

[...] To the impressive Mike Stopforth who joined us from Jozi (content fell over the Pinotage event horizon but I do remember that his talk was delivered really well) [...]