[GeekDinner-planning] Request for wine sponsorship: Draft document

[Jonathan Hitchcock]

Tania wrote:
> Posting this to the group because I don't want to say anything daft whilst 
> speaking on behalf of everyone...

Tania, did you write that?  I struggle to believe that you of all people
would lose control of their grammar to that extent ;-)

Take the first sentence in the background:

"Traditionally, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) experts told Web site
owners that what they needed in order to market themselves on the
Internet, was to have a Web site but in most cases, a complete fallacy,
as search engines like Googles constantly adjust their search algorithms
in order to compensate for the fact that people try to cheat the system."

- There's an erroneous comma after "Internet"
- "Web" should probably not be capitalised
- you're missing a verb clause in the middle of "most cases, a complete
fallacy"
- "Googles" isn't plural


Apart from that, the general gist seems fine, although I think some
points could be expanded.  Could we not use some excerpts from Dave
Duarte's original talk - the one about Stormhoek that started everything
off?  Do you want me to get hold of him and ask if we can have some
quotes or a brief from him?

Some other minor points, though:
- Maybe stick to "GeekDinner" (one word) instead of "Geek Dinner", to
keep it standard?
- You say that the wine sponsor is "always" given an opportunity to
speak at a GeekDinner...  We've only done this once, and that was
because GetWine are an internet-based company, thus making them relevant
to the dinners.  We don't want to sit through ten minutes of marketing
drivel just because somebody has given us some wine...
- the google search link you provide doesn't actually yield anything
very convincing, maybe try one of these?

http://www.google.com/search?q=geekdinner%20getwine
http://www.google.com/search?q=geekdinner%20getwine&meta=cr%3DcountryZA

Thanks!
Cheers,
-Jonathan