one year agoLine-up for Oxford Geek Night

The debut event for Oxfordshire based geeks draws ever closer, this coming Wednesday at the Jericho Tavern! As you may have already read, the doors to the upstairs bar will open at 8pm and the talks will then start at about 8:30.

We now have a fantastic line-up for the evening, starting with two 15 minute keynotes on very different subjects. Simon Willison gives an introduction to OpenID followed by Olly Willans demonstrating the latest version of Photoshop - Photoshop CS3.

The set of 5 minute microslots cover a wide range of exciting topics. The first 6 cover content management, frameworks and statistics, the second set explores maps, mashups, JavaScript and accessibility.

Microslot set one

• Tom Dyson - Peastat
• Jonathan Leighton - Ruby On Rails Migrations
• Tim Almond - Wordpress as a CMS
• Gemma Hentsch - Concatenating forms, a Django extension
• Garrett Coakley - Drupal 5
• JP Stacey - Building an ultra thin CMS with XSL and Atom

Microslot set two

• Nick Birch - New Popular Edition Maps
• Artem Pavlenko - Map rendering engine
• Natalie Downe - The importance of permalinks in unobtrusive JavaScript
• Bryan Gullan - Avoiding accessibility pitfalls
• James Wheare - Oxford bus times, a Google maps mashup

There will also be plenty of time in between the talks for socialising and drinking at the upstairs bar.

Look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!