For our anglophone Geek friends, we are trying to update the website to keep you posted. So here is a short overview of the Geek Fest for you to enjoy!
The Montreal Geek Festival (also called Geekfest) is a geek festival. And so? It is an enjoyable festival that brings people together. It will take place on March 6 and 7, 2010, at SUPINFO – École supérieure d’informatique, located at 752 Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal (easily accessible from McGill metro station). All types of geeks are invited, but there is nothing stopping non-geeks from participating in the event!
Montreal is the perfect city for any geek festival. The city already hosts many of them, each one more interesting than the last. We are not trying to replace other festivals. We simply want to create a new type of enjoyable gathering.
How will we accomplish this? The idea of GeekFest is to create several smaller festivals/activities featuring different categories of geeks, all under the banner of one large festival: GeekFest!
Since this will be the first GeekFest, we will be focusing on the most common types of geeks: Apple Geek, Computer Geek, LAN/Gamer Geek, Music Geek, RPG/Board Game Geek, SciFi Geek.
Of course, the idea is to represent as many types of geeks as possible. We are thus working with various organizations, businesses and volunteers who will teach us more about geek varieties throughout the festival. Our long‑term goal is obviously to increase the number each year!
We have planned plenty of activities to entertain all our visitors: a Geek Orchestra, a LAN Party, Video presentations, different kinds of Geek competitions and debates, Cospay, a RPG area, an xBox lounge, a Retro-Gaming section, CodeFest, a Geek Food competition, and so on.
Will you be there? Of course you will!
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