OpenTech 2008 this weekend July 1st, 2008
Buzz surrounds the nearly booked-up OT2008, coincidentally right until I mention I’m running one of the sessions.
Oxford Geek Night #3 July 19th, 2007
Oxford Geek Nights #3 has been somewhat firmed up since I last posted. It’s in six days time (Wed 25) at the usual place, The Jericho Tavern.
Keynotes are confirmed—Andy Budd of Clearleft and Matt Biddulph of Dopplr—and we even have a (deep breaths) geek troubadour introducing the whole evening.
I’m getting more involved with [...]
Team Drupal FTW! June 26th, 2007
Coming to the end of the Drupal project on which I’m currently working, I spotted someone else’s brand new site on drupal.org: TeamSugar.
The hallmark of a good frameworked site is that it’s not easy to guess which framework was used, and TeamSugar manages that admirably. While I can’t really comment on the design—I find most [...]
Geeknight #1: collect the whole series! February 8th, 2007
Further to my earlier post, the first Oxford Geeknight was splendid. It all ran very smoothly, and though Simon Willison, Tom Dyson and I each had a small hand in setting up the tech, really all the praise has to rain down on the head of Natbat, who organised everything down to the minutest detail, [...]
Oxford Geeknights January 22nd, 2007
No, not the knights who say “Gee!”
The fragrant Natbat, my co-worker and fellow cheese-eater, is organising an Oxford(-shire)-based geek evening:
Oxford GeekNights #1
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 @ 8.00pm
Jericho Tavern, Jericho, Oxford
Two or three 15-minute keynote talks, followed by some microslot talks on the night for any speakers from the floor [...]