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.
Keynote
- Delighting with Data: gluing things together for beautiful pointlessness, by Tom Taylor, developer and technical consultant for Headshift (slides and writeup) (video)
Microslots
These are five-minute "lightning" talks that anyone can do. Here are the confirmed microslots for OGN7:
- Killing Servers With Music Graphing, by Andrew Godwin (slides) (video)
- The Clangers' Guide to Microformats, by Drew McLellan (slides) (video)
- Advanced Dragon-Slaying with Comet, by Matthew Westcott (slides) (video)
- Hands-on with App Engine, by Tom Dyson (slides) (video)
- Rewriting the OSX Address Book: no previous coding experience necessary, by Simon Whitaker (slides) (video)
- PlanningAlerts, by Duncan Parkes (video)
We're accepting microslot suggestions for OGN8 in August: volunteer in advance and we'll put you on the list.
Microslot ideas
If you want to hear a particular subject in a microslot for OGN8, and would like someone else to offer (there's bound to be someone out there!) then feel free to submit the idea to our wishlist form. Here's our current microslot wishlist:
- Compliance for processing and holding credit card details
- Shindig / OpenSocial
- Hadoop
Fancy speaking for five minutes about any of them? Volunteer your talk here!
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