Geeklounge Enschede

GeekLounges are informal gettogethers of 'local geeks'. Local is defined broadly as living within easy travel distance on either side of the Dutch/German border.

GeekLounge dates for 2010:
Saturday January 23rd,
Saturday March 20th,
Saturday May 22nd,
Saturday July 24th,
Saturday September 25th,
Saturday November 20th.

Starting at 16:00 hrs, until 21:00 hrs or so. Check the GeekLoungeEnschede page for info/updates

Next Meeting

July 24th Location : Ton & Elmine's , Amelinkhorst 4. (See GettingThere) Starting at 16:00hrs.




Some pics from the May '08 geek dinner. See them at Flickr here∞ and here∞

Previous Meetings

Saturday May 22nd. 16:00-21:00 Location: Lilia Efimova's and Robert Slagter's home

Attending:
Robert Slagter
Lilia Efimova
Elmine Wijnia (we will bring drinks still left from our birthday party)
Ton Zijlstra
Olga and Maarten

Maybe:
Gerrit Eicker∞
Johnny Søraker∞ (job application deadline on Sunday so depends on how far I've gotten)


Saturday March 20th. 16:00-.... Location: Fred and Douwe (other suggestions welcome as well, if you would like a change of scenery)
(new to invite: Diogo)

Attending:
Ton Zijlstra
Elmine Wijnia
Lilia Efimova∞+Robert Slagter∞+Alexander (as usual we are likely to be there around 18, after Alexander's nap)
Johnny Søraker∞ (I will swing by early on, but can't stay long as I have a deadline that night)
Marc Otte
Diogo Caldeira Pires
Olga and Maarten +R+S


January 23rd, 16:00-21:00 Fred & Douwe, Bolwerkstraat 2, Enschede city center. (http://www.fredendouwe.nl/∞)

We invited initially: Robert Slagter, Lilia Efimova, Geke Ludden, Mark Otte, Johnny Søraker, Gerrit Eicker, Ralph Beuker, Olga Steen, Edwin Dertien, Irina Shostak, Pedro and Patricia Custodio, Maximilian Halstrup, Elmine Wijnia, Ton Zijlstra. Feel free to forward the invitation to people you think would enjoy this and sort of fit the 'profile'. Feel free to bring partner and/or kids.
If you invite others, please add their names to this list, and ask them to let you as well as me (ton.zijlstra@gmail.com) know if they are coming.
Elmine and Ton will be attending regardless of the number of people showing up, so the Geeklounge will take place no matter what.


Attending
Ton Zijlstra, http://zylstra.org/blog∞
Elmine Wijnia, http://elmine.wijnia.com/∞
Maximilian Halstrup, http://metadata.halstrup.net∞
Pedro Custódio, http://blog.pedrocustodio.com∞, Patricia Custódio
João Santos, Margarida Baptista
Lilia Efimova∞+Robert Slagter∞+Alexander (as usual we are likely to be there around 18, after Alexander's nap)
Läslo Hut∞
Marc Otte
Irina Shostak
Olga Steen
Edwin Dertien
Henk Poot


November 29th, 16:00-??, Fred & Douwe, Bolwerkstraat 2, Enschede city center. (http://www.fredendouwe.nl/∞)
(note: date changed from 28th)

The geeklounge we organize on the 29th will be all about catching up together. Elmine and Ton also would like to propose meeting up in a more regular schedule, and hear your reactions/feedback/ideas on that. See suggestions below.

Attending
Elmine Wijnia
Ton Zijlstra
Johnny Søraker
Lilia Efimova+Robert Slagter+Alexander (there is a big chance we will be there later, around 18 - after Alexander's nap)
Marc Otte


We invited initially: Robert Slagter, Lilia Efimova, Johnny Søraker, Gerrit Eicker, Ralph Beuker, Olga Steen, Mel, Edwin Dertien, Irina Shostak, Pedro and Patricia Custodio, Elmine Wijnia, Ton Zijlstra. Feel free to forward the invitation to people you think would enjoy this and sort of fit the 'profile'. Feel free to bring partner and/or kids.

Elmine and Ton will be attending regardless of the number of people showing up, so the Geeklounge will take place no matter what.

Can't make it
Olga Steen
Gerrit Eicker
Irina Shostak

Suggestions

Rythm
The two of us (Elmine and Ton) have been talking about doing these kind of gatherings on a more regular basis, making sure that people that live a bit further out have a chance to plan their visit to Enschede (e.g. the people living in Münster). Right now we're thinking of a two-monthly interval. Dates to be settled for a year in advance. That way it becomes easier to plan for attending. Whoever comes, comes, whoever doesn't, doesn't. It's something Ton uses for stimulating the Dutch FabLab network as well.

Name
For now we've announced it as a geeklounge, instead of dinner. We would love to have a catchy name (e.g. a friend of ours in Amsterdam called such meetings Pussycat Lounge) but also to create the possibility of doing something different than just a 'geek dinner'. Having dinner is one of the options of course, but we could also sometimes organize BarCamp-style sessions on some evenings, or workshops and themed meetings (like they do at the German Webmondays∞), or just hang out, whatever we feel like. In short: we'd like a name that leaves us room to choose whatever format we like for our different Geeklounge meetups.