Geek Night video and Moo card scandal aversion horror June 24th, 2008
Many proffered hands make light work of running OGN7
OGN7: speakers and books galore! June 15th, 2008
It’s ten days to OGN7; we’ve got a full roster of speakers, half a boxfull of books; it’s dork, and I’m wearing a work-related T-shirt.
Oxford Geek Night #6: report on the Google blog April 26th, 2008
My rather cheesy write-up of OGN6 is now available on the Google Open Source blog. I’d like to say it was cut to ribbons and all the worst bits are editorial additions, but I think they put it up verbatim.
Cheers, all: see you at OGN7, June 25th.
Oxford Geek Night #6: Web2.0 meets education and academia April 16th, 2008
The next OGN next Tuesday has developed broad themes without us really trying. Generally it’s best to have a mixture of talks, because of the eclectic mix of interests represented by our audience, but two clear topics have arisen, with some overlap in between.
Gobion Rowlands leads our e-learning procession, with a keynote on “turning hard [...]
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 [...]
Oxford Geek Night #4: tomorrow night! November 27th, 2007
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 [...]