Last night we had a fantastic event - our third Utah Geek Dinner.  Especially compared to last month (which in some ways was cool, others a fiasco), we had a wonderful evening.  By far we had our greatest attendance as well with over 80 people showing up and participating.  We had two brief educational presentations by some attorneys focusing on legal issues of which geeks should be aware.  Nathan Nelson (who also helped procure the Larry H. Miller SLCC Campus and the Panache Catering) spoke on starting your own company.  David McKenzie then addressed us on software patents, copyrights, etc.

Following both of those presentations we had a mini-presentation by Dave Turnbull of SoftwareFor.org who discussed a very cool initiative they have in getting quality software to students worldwide on a student budget (i.e. FREE) called “Software for Starving Students”.

We had a great time and a great turnout.  The next Geek Dinner will be on February 22nd, 2006 and (probably) at the same place at 6:00 PM.  If you haven't had a chance to make it out to one of these events you're missing out!  It's a wonderful opportunity to do some business networking and help promote the cross pollenation of technologies and technologists here in Utah.