OGN8 has become the musical OGN August 8th, 2008
Oxford Geek Nights #8: Rockin’ Rabbit. Because home socializing is killing public speaking.
OGN7 writeup at the Google OS Blog July 10th, 2008
OGN7 writeup on Google. It has to be pithier next time or they’ll turn it into pirate-speak to spite me.
Oxford Geek Night #6: Web2.0 meets education and academia April 16th, 2008
Rounded corners are all very well, but on their own they won’t help educate the next generation about anything except CSS hacks.
For your diaries: sixth and seventh Oxford Geek Nights February 15th, 2008
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 [...]
In which I put OGN5 to bed, and hope to do the same to myself later February 7th, 2008
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 [...]
Oxford Geek Night #5: you do the maths January 30th, 2008
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 [...]
Oxford Geek Night #5: speakers and sponsors confirmed January 17th, 2008
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 [...]
Oxford Geek Night #5: all ready bar the microslots January 6th, 2008
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 [...]
.net magazine mentions OGN October 29th, 2007
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!) [...]
OGN4: keynotes confirmed October 13th, 2007
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?