You're invited to the "Geekiest" party of the year, where an estimated 2000 Information Technology professionals and enthusiasts are expected to join in the festival of live music and technological events being held in Melbourne's Albert Park. It's all about getting down to the Geek culture.
Based on the idea of the Geekapalooza parties held in San Francisco - an annual computer festival - organiser Dr Katherine Phelps set out to organise a similar event for tech lovers here in Australia.
"I've wanted to have a computer party just like "Geekapalooza" as we don't have anything like it here," Phelps said.
Held on Friday October 20, the party - called 'Geek Nite Out' - will coincide with ACE 2000, a computer exhibition taking place on October 21 and 22 at Albert Park in Melbourne.
For just AU$5 - or free for ACE 2000 participants - the party will host guests such as Ka-Ping Yee of Industrial Light and Music - who has come out from San Francisco to take part in the Geek festivities - and a speaker from Ladies Linux User Group of Japan who is talking about open source toy projects.
There will also be matches on games such as Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament where geeks can thrash it out, which is being set up by Linux User Group of Victoria (LUV).
Party goers will also be able to get down to music hosted by Clan Analogue - a collective organisation of producers of electronic music, DJ's and artists - and watch live robot demonstrations from Robo Cup 2000.
According to Phelps, there will be computer enthusiasts travelling from interstate for the bash and also a few overseas participants too.
Event organisers are still looking for sponsorship or donations to
enable the geek staple diet of coffee, pizza and coke that's being
supplied, to be free for all those who attend.
