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Music is my hot hot CSS

jp.stacey 29 August 2008
The last person in the audience who historically doesn't enjoy an Oxford Geek Night---me---is finally relaxing and having fun at them.

Last night's Oxford Geek Night was completely mental.

Oxford Geek Night #9 next Wednesday

jp.stacey 15 October 2008
Not just two great talks on online publishing, but also a book raffle, and an empty microslot for you to volunteer to fill! What more do you want: blood?

The planning for OGN9 is almost complete. The keynotes are sorted, the book raffle books have arrived---but we now have a vacancy in our volunteer microslots. Help.

As far as the keynotes are concerned, Jeremy Ruston of BT Osmosoft will be talking about the magic self-replicating offline/online publishing system TiddlyWiki, an open-source Javascript project.

Serious Geeking Going on in Oxford Over Online Publishing

jp.stacey 16 November 2008
For those of you that weren't at OGN9, here's a belated summary. Videos are up on the site if you're interested.

A summary of OGN9, originally on the Google Open Source Blog:

On Wednesday 22 October, over a hundred geeks attended the ninth Oxford Geek Night, upstairs at the Jericho Tavern.

Oxford Geek Nights reach double digits on January 21st

jp.stacey 7 January 2009
The tenth Oxford Geek Night is my seventh, and I've just got the hang of the PA.

It's the tenth Oxford Geek Night in two weeks! Who would have thought nearly two years ago that Natalie's brainchild would ever make it to the grand old age of ten? And the OGNs are striding purposefully towards their teens with two great keynote speakers.

First up will be Elliot Jay Stocks, designer and writer for .net.

BarCamp Oxford 2009: April 4-5, University Club

jp.stacey 3 March 2009
It's actually happening: hooray. And I'm actually helping: boo.

BarCamp Oxford is happening on April 4-5 this year! Like other BarCamps, this will be a loosely organized "unconference", where every attendee is a participant and the sequence of events is decided by consensus: as the BarCamp site declares, "no spectators, only participants."

I'm really pleased that this has got off the ground.

Dates for my diary this spring

jp.stacey 15 March 2009
What YOUR diary might contain, however, is none of my business

The next few weeks look like they're going to be incredibly busy. Right now my greatest worries are of course about Oxford Geek Night 11 on Wednesday 25 March.

The great schwag schift at OGN11

jp.stacey 28 March 2009
OGN11 wasn't all about the schwag, of course. It was also about the anticipation of more schwag at OGN12.

I was a bit worried there might have been a riot at Oxford Geek Night 11: our drinks funding hadn't been renewed.

Oxford Geek Night 12: messages, generators and hot, hot sex

jp.stacey 5 May 2009
It's getting hot in here (uh-huh) so take off all your... actually, I'll open a window.

The lineup for OGN12 has been finalized, and we've got another special feature. This time round, our two keynotes have been replaced with an extended superkeynote about messaging technologies---the web, social media, small communications and instant messaging---called The webs are made of messages.

Oxford Geek Night 12 this Wednesday

jp.stacey 25 May 2009
A man, a plan, again: OGN! Able was I ere I saw my to-do list! Pack my car with one dozen Apress books!

It might be a bank holiday for you, but I'm currently putting the final touches to Oxford Geek Night 12, which is this Wednesday.

Form and content at Oxford Geek Night #13

jp.stacey 7 June 2009
The future of textual rendering and data visualizations at OGN13.

Those of you who subscribe to the Oxford Geek Nights Google group hopefully need no reminder that Oxford Geek Night 13 is on Wednesday 15 July.