It is time to start planning for our Geekzone Freeview Pizza evening events around the country again!

Premiere sponsors:

Dinner: Freeview is sponsoring the pizza in all our events.

Drinks: Telecom New Zealand is the main drinks sponsor in all our events.

Travel: Air New Zealand is sponsoring flights (giveaway here).


Venues and dates:

Wellington: 13th February 2010 (Flickr photos)
Auckland: 6th March 2010
Christchurch: 20th March 2010

The registration process:

- Geekzone subscribers can register now.

- First wave on 12th January 2010 12pm for people who replied or "watched" this thread. I will send a reminder email to everyone in the list on the 11th January. This will be limited to 35 registrations.

- Second wave on 14th January 2010 open to all other users who registered on Geekzone before 1st January 2010 and have at least two posts, with a limit of 50 registrations (first wave and second wave total).

- Third wave on 15th January 2010 open to all other users with a limit of 60 registrations (total).

Sponsors:

- 2degreesmobile (three $200 SIM + three $150 SIM or topup if existing customer)
- Altaro (21 licenses for Oops!Backup for Windows)
- Asnet Technology (three Polycom Communicator)
- BigHammer (three Kingston 16GB USB DataTraveller)
- Data centre limited (3x 1U colocation plus unlimited bandwidth for one year - you must register your interest at www.datacentre.co.nz before the meeting, drinks AKL)
- DTV Solutions (Homecast HT9200DTR WLG, three DTVS-1B satellite receivers)
- Microsoft New Zealand (three Windows 7 Ultimate retail)
- NETGEAR (three EVA2000 )
- Nutshell Leather Cases (one leather case matching each of the Telecom handsets below)
- NZ Internet Shop (Aeropress coffee maker WLG)
- NZS.com (online advertising packages)
- Quay Corporate (24" LCD WLG)
- sniff (drinks AKL/CHC/WLG)
- Sony (three Sony Walkman A840)
- Sony Ericsson (three W705 mobile phones, suitable for XT network)
- Stickemen Studios (concept art for King Fu Funk, Doc Clock, Dragon Master Spell Caster and Shadow Rising videogames)
- Symantec (six copies of Norton Antivirus)
- Telecom New Zealand (two sierra wireless 885u USB mobile broadband modem, two Samsung Ultra Touch S8300T, one Sony Ericsson W995 and one Sony Ericsson W705)

Each event is limited to to 60 people. Food and drinks will be provided by our kind sponsors. You must be at least at the legal drinking age to attend these events.

Partners and friends can attend but we will charge a nominal fee to cover the costs (this is the same as in previous years).

If your company wants to sponsor prizes please contact me.

Photos from previous events: Wellington 2008, Christchurch 2008, Wellington 2009, Auckland 2009.

Once again, thanks to all our sponsors for making this event possible.

Confirmed registrations (WLG):

ajhphd          
ajobbins        
alikat          
allan           
andrewinwlg     
AndrewTD        
aomus           
BarTender       
bigbob          
BigHammer       
BlackMael       
BlakJak         
chiefie         
chris021        
cisconz         
clivestart      
Dharil          
dolsen          
Dratsab         
Drewpy          
euanandrews     
Evolbob         
Ezzie           
fraser1         
fredalvrez      
freitasm        
goodie          
gtxboyracer     
HamishMacEwan   
hebegb          
hudds           
icogill         
JamesHip        
JAMMAN2110      
JAYJAY          
jonherries      
jtbthatsme 
KevDaly    
lchiu7          
maro            
Mike75          
mushion22
nate            
nathan          
nativecoloradan 
Novatech        
Noviota         
OldFart         
peteremcc       
psycik          
qupada          
RedJungle       
ren1316         
RockResearch    
rscole86        
sangha          
sbiddle         
scottpalmer     
Shadowfoot      
Shock           
smgoverno       
stuartgr
Techie          
ventolin        
Wilstar         
       

Confirmed Registrations (AKL):

ajhphd        
ald           
alikat        
AndrewTD      
avneetk       
BazzaA        
bigal_nz      
BigHammer     
BioNz         
bodysoda      
chiefie       
Chippo        
chris021      
cisconz       
coffeebaron   
cokemaster    
cranz         
cyberhub      
dacraka       
DestRoYeDnz   
dman          
doolz         
doozy         
drajk         
fastmikey     
Fenderboy     
freitasm      
Hervard       
Johnk         
jpollock      
kevsterg      
kirjava       
konfusd       
Lias          
lolgza        
magu          
mail2mm       
mauriciolima  
mclayma       
mikeynu       
mozzle        
MrWestie      
nate          
nathan        
Oncop53       
openmedia     
ozki          
parsley       
paulspain     
penfald       
PIERCD        
pjnet         
psychrn       
pwner         
RedJungle     
rhysb         
richms        
sbiddle       
scottpalmer   
sep11guy      
SepticSceptic 
spadez        
thecrane      
velofille     
wazzageek     

Confirmed registrations (CHC):

ajobbins        
alasta          
amigo           
andar           
ArchPrime       
ArcticSilver    
bananag1
beck7747        
Belinda
BigHammer       
Blygh           
BuffyNZ         
bulk      
cbcnz     
cbethke         
chiefie         
chris021        
cisconz         
cliveynz        
Dawg            
DragonSlayre    
fieldway        
follower        
freitasm        
Hoox            
humvee          
jackreach07     
kcolbin         
keewee01        
kiwired23       
lurker          
MattD           
motogpnz        
nate            
nathan          
neverland       
NickMack        
NMcPherson      
nzbullet        
NZJon           
nzsnowman       
nzsouthernman   
OldRepublicJedi 
pennyboy        
PurdyAngel      
rscole86
RedJungle       
Ryrager         
savag3          
sbiddle         
scottpalmer     
scubadave       
skyhigh         
spideronfire    
steve98         
Tacoloco        
Tel69           
timestyles      
Timmee          
underwatervrg   
watling         
Wob             
xcubed          
zenourn
zocster