And on the 27th day, the geeks met for dinner

24 Apr 2007 13 Comments

We can’t wait to take our rain check from Feb’s 27 Dinner. While the rest of Cape Town’s geekdom were chatting and partying it up at Relish, we were patiently waiting for the drinks trolley to come speeding down the aisle in Economy Class (a couple of thousand feet in the air, on our way to meetings in Joburg).

But with the next CT Dinner rolling around this Friday, we’re pulling out all the stops. Between us, we’ve postponed a weekend away in George, put off a celeb dinner (they’re B list anyway:)) and, most importantly, spoken to Dave and Mike about adding a bit of Zoopy to the 27 mix.

Dave and I threw a few ideas around and here’s what we’ve come up with. We now have a video and photo channel specially created for 27 Dinner vids and pics on Zoopy.com. Anything that you’re willing to share/expose/flaunt can now be stored in one dedicated space, for Joburg and CT to see and share. And all of your private 27 stuff can still go up, just marked private – for special friends :)

For us, this really does expand on the true concept of Web 2.0. The only truly ‘official video’ should be the combined contribution of everyone’s take on the event: from 5 second mobile clips to full 10 minute videos of talks. Not to mention photos!

But Friday is FREEdom Day, so …

Yum!THEN, we thought why not give the whole thing a bit of Cape Town zing? We think this should do it. We’re giving away a shiny new Sony DVD video camera to one lucky 27 attendee who uploads something to the 27 Dinner channel on Zoopy BEFORE 27-6 (the next CT dinner in June). As long as you upload at least one video or pic taken at this Friday’s dinner, you qualify to win this baby. The draw will be random, and you have to be at the June dinner to win. But where else would you be, really? :)

Exciting times. See you on Friday!

Quick link to 27 Dinner video channel: http://www.zoopy.com/video_channels/88/27_Dinner
Quick link to 27 Dinner photo channel: http://www.zoopy.com/photo_channels/88/27_Dinner

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13 Responses to “And on the 27th day, the geeks met for dinner”

  1. Dave Duarte 24 Apr 2007 at 7:36 pm

    Thanks guys! What a fantastic way encourage video participation culture in SA!

    I think the competition is gonna rock!

  2. Charl Norman 24 Apr 2007 at 10:27 pm

    See you there

  3. zoopy 25 Apr 2007 at 3:27 am

    DD: We’re thrilled to be giving away a Prize 2.0 :) And you’re right, it should be a goodie!

    Charl: as Mr Smithers would say, “Excccellent!” :)

  4. Rouvanne 25 Apr 2007 at 11:02 am

    Damn, I thought I was excited about this weekends 27 Dinner… now I am even excited about Junes event… this kind of antici…pation is going make everything else in life dull!

  5. zoopy 26 Apr 2007 at 12:09 pm

    Hehehe Rouvanne – organise us a handshake with a certain Mr Carstens and maybe … just maybe ;)

  6. Miguel 26 Apr 2007 at 11:51 pm

    Awesome stuff! Better make sure my phone is charged ready to work over time :)

  7. Aquila 29 Apr 2007 at 7:05 am

    hehe 10 points for being the first to upload after the Zoopy gang then? Great meeting everyone, it was a blast.

  8. zoopy 29 Apr 2007 at 10:11 am

    We LOVE your video, it’s brilliant! You Joburg guys are FAST :) Luckily, the CT crowd still have two months to put something up, so they’ll get to it soon enough. Like the night before the next one ;)

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