Garbage collection, in a very real sense
Yesterday’s OKCon 2008 was great fun, if a long day! I’m still digesting the food for thought that the conference provided—many, small courses; over a dozen if you include the more open sessions after the keynotes, and each followed by a sorbet of questions and debate—so I don’t have a great deal to say about [...]
The Open Knowledge Conference takes place in London the weekend after this. Rufus Pollock, who gave a keynote at OGN5, will be introducing a packed programme which covers the principles of free and open information access applied to diverse areas such as education, the environment, transport and academia.
I’m realy looking forward to it, especially in [...]
In the wake of the most recent geek night, we’ve just added Upcoming entries for Oxford Geek Night #6 and Oxford Geek Night #7. Maybe when we reach some milestone like #10 we can think of better names for the events.
We should have something on the “official” website soon, although that currently takes a bit [...]
Now that the shine is off my memories of OGN5—not least by a leak of an upcoming post elsewhere on this blog owing to a keyfumble—I can nonetheless look back on a success. From the point of view of all the guests it was one sort of a success: the speakers were wonderfully engaging; contributions [...]
I don’t know how well this reflects on me.
As I was wondering idly when the delivery would arrive containing OGN5’s book lottery giveaways (thanks again, Friends of ED!) I started making a note of calendar dates for different bits of OGN organisation. I was working with Trac milestones at the time, so they were all [...]
The fifth Oxford Geek Night is shaping up to be a really great night. Following on from our keynote confirmations, we’ve now got a full house of microslotters.
Not only that, but we’ve also sorted our extra sponsorship. Joining the ever-indulgent, ever-understanding Torchbox are Google and Friends of ED. In return for sponsoring us, Google have [...]
The fifth Oxford Geek Night is on February 6, 2008. We’ve got sponsorship from Torchbox and Google—thanks for that, chaps—and two really interesting keynote speakers booked: Rufus Pollock and Denise Wilton.
Rufus is an executive director of the Open Knowledge Foundation and economics research fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He’ll be talking about promoting the opening [...]
Agh! The fourth Oxford Geek Night is tomorrow: here’s a list of speakers. It looks like it’s going to be a darn good evening for everyone, and hopefully I can relax for long enough to enjoy it myself.
As usual we’ve managed to get a good mix of talks, with discussion of the society-changing work behind [...]
Oxford Geek Nights have got a mention in the November 2007 issue of .net magazine. The whole article by Mark Boulton isn’t available online, but it discusses the resources that are available for freelance hopefuls, and how events such as OGN and dConstruct (yes, it mentions them in the same breath; yes, in that order!) [...]
The OGN juggernaut rumbles on towards the fourth Oxford Geek Night. Keynotes have been confirmed:
Tom Steinberg, founder of mySociety
James Gardner, co-founder of the Pylons Web Framework
We’ve also (as you can see above) got the website sorted out, alongside the Upcoming event. How l33t are we?