First Oxford Geek Night a success!
Thanks to everyone who came last night. I really hope everyone had a fantastic evening, we had some interesting talks and some cool demos. It was pretty tricky to judge numbers from where I was sat, but I have been told that we had over 100 people at one point, which is great!
The running order of the night went as follows …
Keynotes
- Simon Willison - An introduction to OpenID
- Olly Willans - Demonstration of Photoshop CS3
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 - Mapnik, a map rendering engine
- Matthew Westcott - London Underground Tube map demonstration
- Bryan Gullan - Avoiding accessibility pitfalls
- James Wheare - Live bus times, a Google maps mashup
The photos from last night are online and can be found on flickr, the slides, links and hopefully audio of the talks will be available soon.
A big thank you to the fantastic speakers yesterday, to Torchbox for their generous sponsorship and to all the wonderful people who helped me out on the night.
We’re planning to organise a second Oxford Geek Night in a few months time.
…and not to forget my nanoslot where I promoted the Oxtremists book group http://www.oxtremists.co.uk (He says, giving it yet another plug)…
Chris R - February 9th, 2007 at 8:30 amAn Eventful Few Days……
I’ve had an eventful couple of days this week.I was driving to Windsor on Wednesday morning when my alternator decided to give up, just after J11 on the M4 and before I could get to the hard……
Tim Almond - February 10th, 2007 at 2:22 pmI see no mention of raiding the Cambridge geek night. Change of plan?
Dean Edwards - February 10th, 2007 at 11:52 pmAh yes, the plan remains, I just need a few allies to help me in the raid :p
natbat - February 11th, 2007 at 12:09 amI’m annoyed I didn’t hear about this - I’d have been interested in the Wordpress talk. I’m local and use Wordpress to provide an easy to use content management system to small charities and non-profit groups.
James Davis - February 26th, 2007 at 10:56 amThe podcasts and slides are all on the website for the previous event, there is also a signup form for news of upcoming events.
natbat - February 26th, 2007 at 8:51 pm