Scott Hanselman

I wish I could make it for some mall food. It is, however, a long drive to Redmond from my house. :-(

I will be there.

I want to go with you, but i stay at Thailand :), a lot of Geek!! and good dinner.

Sorry I didn't make it--had to run home at 6pm to babysit the kids. Hope it was a good one.

OK, I'm back from the future now.

Decisions, decision, decision. Now I need to decide whether to go to the .Net Developers Association meeting in Redmond or to this event. Hmm, free pizza or pay for my own food. Good company or good company. Okay, I have decided, I will be there.

See ya there.

I'll ne there representing the Silverlight crowd :)

After attending the dinner this year I wanted to leave some feedback.

Overall I thought this was a great idea and it seemed like we had a good turn out. My biggest complaint though is that the dinner didn't seem to do great at accomplishing the goal of getting the community to interact. Mainly it seemed like a typical social party where everyone pretty much hung out with people they already knew.

I was able to meet a few new people but not what I was expecting. Feel free to assail my social skills here :)

It would be great if in the future you could devise a way to force the groups to mingle and interact. I'm not voting for assigned seats and name tags, but perhaps some random seating system.

Anyways, good experience, looking forward to next year.

Good feedback. It’s usually a monthly, or every other month thing. Not yearly.

Some ideas for next ones:

• Name tags
• Musical chairs – force everyone to shift over 4 spots every 15 minutes!
• Signs indicating area of interest on each table?

Thoughts?