Mitch Joel and Michael Seaton did a bang up job of organizing a geek dinner in Toronto last night. They put the word out Sunday afternoon and by Tuesday night at least 15 people were sitting around a table at Houston's in downtown TO.
It was amazing for me as I was able to put faces to many of the people I've been talking to online. Case in point...a couple of weeks ago I mentioned that we're doing interviews with the original 3 founders of AIMS. On my to-do list this week is to get back to Jay Aber with his questions. There's no hiding now as he was sitting beside me at the dinner! (I promise Jay...you'll get them in short order...I know our members will be very interested in your perspective)
Leesa Barnes profiled a few folks on her blog and Michael Seaton has a summary on theclientside. I have to agree with both of them that a new name is needed. Geek just doesn't seem to apply when not one person that I met was a coder at heart.
All in all a super night with lots of interesting conversation. Mitch was walking around the table recording conversations so I'm sure the evening will become part of an upcoming 'Six Pixels of Separation' podcast. If you haven't checked out his podcast yet I highly recommend it - it's always full of great perspective and conversations.
It was great to meet you Kathryn. Now, we have to figure out how to top it!
Posted by: Mitch Joel | September 02, 2006 at 10:54 AM