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FULL AGAIN at 110 RSVP's - Super Duper Meetup, Terabyte, Firefox and Silverlight

Jun 2007 14
Thu 6:30 PM
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Estimated attendance
 120  people attended.
5.00 5.0042

Who organized?
John Ballinger

6:30 pm - Terabyte (Project Details Coming).

7:10 pm - Pizza sponsored by www.pizzahut.co.nz

7:30 pm - Firefox 3! Robert O'callahan from Mozilla will be giving us the latest news on the development and features coming out with FF3. Again this is a dont miss presentation, really good stuff.

8:20 pm - break
8:40 pm - Microsoft Silverlight and Expression Studio - Nigel Parker from Microsoft will be talking about Silverlight and how to create Silverlight applications.
9:30 pm - Clean up and leave (this time, please don't pack the chairs away, they stay out for the next lecture first thing in the morning)

For all the chatty inter-webbers we will be heading over to London bar for some post meetup drinks and will most definitely continue talking where meetup left off.

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Who attended?

  • 120 attendees
    • “ I very much enjoyed it - yes, even the hairy and codey bits. It was interesting to see how much oriented towards the practical everything presented was. ”
    • “ Terabyte's presentation was fantastic! ”
    • “ There was an awesome range of proffessionals there. It was cool seeing the firefox guys and micrisoft guys presenting right next to each other. the microsoft stuff was a lot more impressive then I thought it would be. well organised - great job guys ”
    • “ Outstanding event! Really professional with high calibre speakers and a great vibe (probably due to John's infectious enthusiasm). ”
    • “ Brilliant. This gets better every time. ”
    • “ Truly awesome - great speakers and what an atmosphere. Fantastic stuff and can't wait for more. Free beer and pizza say no more aside from another big thank you to the boys at Epic (nice beer chaps) and Pizza Hut too. ”
    • “ great atmosphere, great speakers, interesting discussions :) ”
    • “ Awesome - great mix of speakers - excellent group of attendees - very good organisation ”
    • “ Really enjoyed it, had alot to talk about on the way home ”
    • “ It would occasionally be nice to have some breakout workshop groups to go into more detailed coding of some of the projects. ”
    • “ what a great meeting this was. thanks for all the hard putting it together. ”
    • “ that was F_ckin' awesome Johno...great organisation...thanks ”
    • “ Dan and Adam where one of the best speakers of the night, calm and relaxed and really funny, thanks guys. Robert was excellent again talking about all the exciting features of Firefox 3, layout, text rendering, offline caching and video support. Nigel showed us under the hood of Silverlight and Expression and did some hands on coding and showed the really amazing performance of Silverlight video and streaming. ”
    • “ Great content, great crowd, great organizer :-) ”
    • “ Super awesome, I had a fantastic night. Great speakers, great organization great people! Thanks John you are a legend mate! ”
    • Elliott (+1 guest)
      “ it was epic ”
    • “ God speakers although i didn't hear the Microsoft part ”
    • “ Umm... how bout not locking the doors before the official start time of 6:30 :P There were of us stuck down stairs at 6:25 and the presentations had already started. Apart from that, all was good! ”
    • lee
      “ had a really good time. very good selection of speakers and nice juxtaposition of topics. ”
    • “ fantastic, well done to all involved ”
    • Ramon Thackwell (+1 guest)
      “ First meetup for me. I was running late and it would have been hard to get into the building had someone not coincidentally been outside. Once in, I thoroughly enjoyed the night. Will be on time next time for food and drinks! ”
    • “ I will buy you a bottle opener John :-) ”
    • “ Great to have the opposing teams pimping their wares! :) ”
    • Peter Gregory (+1 guest)
    • Simon Lieschke (+1 guest)
    • wicked (+1 guest)