---
title: Dallas geek night
url: https://www.grahambrooks.com/post/2010-08-18-dallas-geek-night/
date: 2010-08-18T00:00:00+00:00
author: Graham Brooks
tags:
- Writing
---

# Dallas geek night

Last week I happened to be in Dallas for a client and was invited
along to the <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Geeknight-Dallas/">Dallas
Geeknight</a> held at the <a
href="http://www.thoughtworks.com">ThoughtWorks</a> offices there.

The Dallas Geeknight is 'oldschool' which is not surprising since Paul
Hammant informed me he formed the original Geeknight in the UK. The
primary driver is producing code and committing that code to a
repository.

At the start of the evening people offered up their current open
source projects elevator pitch style. I pitched two projects <a
href="http://github.com/grahambrooks/bvira">bvira</a> and <a
href="http://github.com/grahambrooks/intercept">Intercept</a>. There
was interest in both but as most people have their own web frameworks
the consensus was to work on <a
href="http://github.com/grahambrooks/intercept">Intercept</a>.

After some initial hiccups around the IDE files for the project we
were up and running. For most of the evening we worked as a group of 3
or 4 on a single laptop. The discussion and engagement was great and I
am deeply thankful for the interest in my pet project. A lot of my
work at the moment is around talking, writing and generally I don't
spend enough time working with code to satisfy the geek side of my
nature. It was a truly refreshing experience to spend a few hours
having fantastic technical conversations &mdash; at the end of the
evening I could not believe how great I felt about what had been
achieved.

A big thank you to everyone who was there but especially those who
gave their time to work on <a
href="http://github.com/grahambrooks/intercept">Intercept</a>.

<a href="http://www.meetup.com/Geeknight-Dallas/">Dallas Geeknight</a>
is definitely an event I will be attending again when I am next in
Dallas.