Other Oxford Geek Nights

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See the previous event's page for photos, podcasts and slides from the 7th February 2007

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Oxford Geeknights

7.30pm, 11th April 2007

Upstairs at the Jericho Tavern

Oxford Geek Nights offer a chance for web developers and designers in the local area to get together, share their skills and talk about new ideas, techniques and technologies.

This second Oxford Geek Night consisted of two keynote talks of 15 minutes each, followed after a healthy period of socialising with two sets of 5 minute long open microslot sessions.

Keynotes

  1. Jon Hicks - Web Typography (video) (slides) (links) (write-up)
  2. James Webster - Amazon's Web Service Suite (video) (slides)

Microslot set one

  1. Jim Purbrick - Second Life Meets The Web (video) (slides)
  2. Josh Hart - The making of Diarised (video) (slides)
  3. Simon Whitaker - Yahoo Pipes introduction (video)
  4. Simon Willison - What the heck is HTML 5? (video) (slides) (write-up)

Microslot set two

  1. Nick Grandy - Semantic Mediawiki and DiscourseDB (video) (slides)
  2. Marc Tobias Metten - Geocoding (video) (slides)
  3. Matthew Westcott - DIY Javascript effects without Scriptaculous (video) (slides)
  4. Dave Sant - Quakr, 3D modeling of the world (video)

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