Oxford Geek Nights 4

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

• "Saving the World, One Perl Module at a Time" by Tom Steinberg, founder of mySociety (video)
• "What Should I Build Next: Getting Creative with Pylons" by James Gardner, co-founder of the Pylons Web Framework (video)

Microslots

• Social Web and the Semantic Web: rel="friend co-worker", by Daniel Lewis (slides) (video)
• Searunner: a new type of web framework, by Ben Werdmuller (video)
• 5 and a half Commandments of Web Security, by Matthew Westcott (slides) (video)
• Google Sightseeing, by James Turnbull (video)
• Nanoformats, by Rozario Chivers (slides) (video)
• MythTV - TV for free! by Ben Ward (slides) (video)

Interested in doing a microslot for OGN5? It's easy enough. Let us know by submitting your proposal, and we'll try to fit you in.

Shameless plugs

• BarCamp Oxford — Pete Cooper exhorts us all to raise our electronic hands for a 2008 BarCamp here in Oxford (video)

Don't forget that there's also a feedback form if you have any suggestions for future OGNs.

Other news and events

O'WONDER hiring

O'WONDER, the brains behind Spacecards and the OPHONE, are hiring. They want smart UI and frontend developers who aren't scared of getting their hands dirty every now and again. More information at owonder.com.

Oxford Mac User Group

Got a Mac? In the area? OxMUG exists for local Mac users. At the end of a packed 2007 schedule is the AGM on December 11, but the schedule for 2008 should be appearing soon.

Torchbox is hiring

Torchbox, our main sponsor, is currently hiring. The company, which designs and develops user-focussed software and websites for predominantly the third sector, is based out in the Cotswolds. Transport-wise, it's also conveniently along the Oxford–Great Malvern main line. More information at OGN4.

NSCoder night

Graham Lee is setting up a weekly meetup for Cocoa hackers. If you're interested in coming along then email iamleeg, at that there Gmail.

BCS Oxfordshire

The BCS (British Computer Society) Oxfordshire branch is holding a Christmas lecture at the Oxford e-Research Centre on November 27th, entitled "Identity Fraud - From Criminals to Consumers." That's the day before OGN4, so try not to tire yourselves out.

OxLUG

Oxford has its own Linux Users Group. If you're interested in Linux, then they aim to bring together like-minded people in a friendly and informal atmosphere. You can join the OxLUG mailing list or contact OxLUG for more information.

CompSoc: lighting talks

CompSoc are running a lightning-talks session this Thursday, November 22 (venue tba). Come along, and give a talk if you like; otherwise just listen to everyone else's! Free to members, non-members £3.

Oxford Geeks

We have recently launched oxfordgeeks.net, a site that pulls together useful links, photos, geek events in Oxford and blog entries from Oxford bloggers. If you want to be listed as an Oxford blogger just let us know. Photos and events are pulled from Flickr and Upcoming respectively so long as they have 'oxfordgeeks' as a tag.