Drupal Johannesburg meetup in March or April

I'm wanting to start organising the next Drupal Johannesburg meetup, to be held in March/April 2009.

The last meetup was a great success, with more than 25 people in attendance.

I'd like to get some feedback from people about what they'd like to see/do at the next meetup.

My personal vision for this meetup would be a series of lightning talks to kick off with, and then free time for deeper discussions and just being social. Details:

I'd like to get more people involved this time. One way of doing this is to use a "Lightning talk" format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk), see ignite(http://ignite.oreilly.com/) and http://perl.plover.com/lt/osc2003/lightning-talks.html - each presenter has 5 minutes to talk on anything. This sounds like a really great way to cover a lot of different topics, get to know people a bit better, and if held at the beginning of the event would enable better social interactions/learning/teaching/networking etc. and more in-depth discussions afterwards.

Some examples of topics (taken from the lighting-talks site):

Here are some suggestions:

1. Why my favorite module / add-on package is X.
2. I want to do cool project X. Does anyone want to help?
3. Successful Project: I did project X. It was a success. Here's how you could benefit.
4. Failed Project: I did project X. It was a failure, and here's why.
5. Heresy: People always say X, but they're wrong. Here's why.
6. You All Suck: Here's what is wrong with our community.
7. Call to Action: Let's all do more of X / less of X.
8. A Funny Thing happened to me on the Way to the Mailing List / Newsgroup / Web Forum.
9. Wouldn't it be cool if X?
   1. Someone needs to do X.
   2. Wish List
   3. Why X was a mistake.
   4. Why X looks like a mistake, but isn't.
   5. What it's like to do X.
   6. Here's a useful technique that worked.
   7. Here's a technique I thought would be useful but didn't work.
   8. Why add-on package X sucks.
   9. Comparison of similar add-on packages X and Y.
   10. Why we should be paying more attention to X.
   11. My Favorite Feature

If you are keen to participate, please post a comment in this thread - if you want to, you're welcome to indicate the topic of your talk, in your comment, although duplicates shouldn't be a major problem.

We normally hold these at Obsidian Systems (http://www.obsidian.co.za/contact) so will probably do it there, pending confirmation. If anyone has another venue they feel would be appropriate for this or future meetings, let me know.

Regarding the date: I expect that the end of March will be a better option than April, as there are lots of public holidays in April, including Easter, so people are more likely to be away then.

All comments and suggestions are welcome!

There is a Drupal Johannesburg group on Facebook, for those that don't lurk around the drupal groups site much: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20838789312 which I'll also use to add more details about this event (although at the moment it appears unavailable).