Oxford Geek Nights 11

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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OGN11 starting earlier!

Following feedback, the OGN11 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

• CSS systems: advice for writing maintainable CSS, by Natalie Downe, front-end developer at Clearleft and creator of Oxford Geek Nights (slides) (video)
• Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard, by Mike Kus, senior designer at Carsonified (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!

Here are the confirmed microslots for OGN11:

• Open Source University Meetup, by Peter Wong (slides) (video)
• Mashing up Fruit Flies: Genomic Science in the Web, by Alistair Miles (slides) (video)
• Server Scripting: The Evils of eval, by Matthew Thorne (slides) (video)
• Developing Bookwhen, by Jo Potts (slides) (video)
• GIS us a Django, by Andrew Godwin (slides) (video)
• Big Javascript: preprocessing, by Jim Higson (slides) (video)

Microslot ideas

Want something explained? Someone out there must know... maybe a microslot would help! Why not submit your idea for someone else's microslot?