Oxford Geek Nights 3

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.

Each OGN consists of two keynote talks of 15 minutes each. There are also frenetic bursts of socialising, sometimes adverts for other local groups, but always interspersed with two sets of 5-minute-long microslot sessions.

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Keynotes

The fantastic keynotes we had time were:

• Matt Biddulph - 'Hardware hacking for software scripters' (video) (slides)
• Andy Budd - 'User Experience Design' (video) (slides)

Microslots

With some equally amazing microslots:

• Jeff Barr - 'What is a Technology Evangelist?' (video) (slides)
• Elliot Jay Stocks - 'Reward & Punishment' (video) (slides)
• Matthew Somerville - 'Train in Vain' (video) (slides)
• Mark Norman Francis - 'Code Reviews and Quality Control at Yahoo!' (video) (slides)
• Rachel Andrew - 'Communication and Project Management across Multi-disciplinary teams' (video) (slides)
• Drew McLellan - 'Being a URL Womble' (video) (slides)

And even a Troubadour:

• Ben Walker - 'I Hate Mornings' (video)

We are now taking proposals for Oxford Geek Night 4. Don't forget that there is also a feedback form if you have any suggestions for the forthcoming event which will be in late September / early October.

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