Oxford Geek Nights 13

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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OGN13 starting earlier!

Following feedback, the OGN13 keynotes will begin at eight o'clock, a full half hour earlier. The rest of the lineup will similarly start and finish that little bit earlier. This should be more convenient for those having to head to homes outside the ring road.

Keynotes

• Accidental journalism: data, drugs, the Government, Timetric.com, and the Guardian, by Andrew Walkingshaw, co-founder, Inkling Software (video)
• HTML 5 (tbc), by Bruce Lawson, Open Web Standards evangelist, Opera (slides) (video)

Microslots

These are five-minute "lightning" talks that anyone can volunteer for. They're easy to do: pick something that excites you, or a project you've worked on that you think might be of interest; then talk to a friendly audience for just five minutes with a handful of slides. Submit your microslot and we'll see you on the night!

Currently confirmed microslots:

• An introduction to Dorkbot, by Mike Harris (slides) (video)
• Don't fear the hexdump, by Glyn Kennington (slides) (video)
• A year with Google Web Toolkit, by David Maddison (slides) (video)
• #DigitalBritain fail, by Marcus Povey (slides) (video)
• A story about HTML emails with a beginning, a middle and a python, by Dave Cranwell (slides) (video)
• The Guardian Open Platform in 5 minutes, by Michael Brunton-Spall (slides) (video)