The 27 Dinner was held at the Rocket Restaurant in Rivonia this evening, and it rocked! The venue rocked, the food and drinks (sponsored by FNB) rocked, the speakers rocked and the crowd was great tonight. For some reason, I got to speak to more people tonight than I have done in the last few 27 Dinners. I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
The twitterfall in action with the #27dinner hashtag
Not sure what Brett Haggard was up to here
And what’s a geek gettogether without a macbook? Not sure what Walter Pike, Paul Bedford and Kerry Haggard were doing
Chris Savides from FNB spoke about Paypal’s new developer competition and how FNB will sponsor one SA development company a trip to San Francisco; and some of their plans to extend the Paypal offering to Rands and he spoke about transaction kickbacks for eCommerce developers when integrating their client applications. It’s a real pity he couldn’t talk about how many users there are in South Africa however, and how much growth there is… the only thing he would say was that the numbers are bigger than we all think.
Philly_girl tweeting again and Saulk
eBucks CEO Yolande
Jessica got very excited with all the food, but was seriously only interested in the desserts
Then Achal Prabhala, who is based in Bangalore, India; and works on the advisory board of the Wikimedia foundation spoke about Wikipedia and how they are trying to grow it in South Africa. This sparked quite a few comments about how people had tried to edit some articles etc and the problems they’ve experienced… and basically he just said that you just need to try again because the process has changed and is more robust.
Melody Maker tweeting
… and Elan tweeting too…
Lastly, Rabin Harduth did a little stand up comedy before the most amazing brownies arrived…. ooh… and the most decadent hot chocolate too!
EveD enjoyed the joke
Some networking… what the 27 dinner is all about
Poor Craig‘s car broke down on the way there, but he was determined… and got there a few minutes before I had to leave
Samuraibunny and Telana
It was an awesome evening… thanks very much to Cerebra for organising it!
Oh well!
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