Django continues to gather momentum towards its imminent 1.0 release. The 1.0 beta 1 is out; the developer documentation has been refactored; it already places nicely with Python's powerful debugging and logging tools; indeed, all is proceeding according to the roadmap, more or less.
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.
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.
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.
With any luck I'll be talking to Danny and Lou on BBC Oxford tomorrow at half noon, about the phenomenon that is Oxford Geek Nights. It's all rather good timing in one sense, given that OGN10 is happening tomorrow evening, but terrible timing in another sense, given that I have to get ready for OGN10 happening tomorrow evening.
All of this is subject to change, of course.
The tenth Oxford Geek Night was our most popular yet. We stopped counting at 150 drinks vouchers, and people still kept coming. I think this is the first OGN where at one point it was actually impossible to get from the stage to the bar and back, which might have improved the quality of the talks, but I couldn't possibly comment.
Actually, the speakers were fantastic, and the local-volunteer microslots probably the strongest set I've ever heard.
There's now a slightly belated report of Oxford Geek Night #10, on the Google Open Source Blog. Gosh, it sounds like it was jolly good. It's almost making me look forward to organizing the next one...!
Oxford Geek Night 11 is tomorrow, starting at the earlier time of 8pm.
I was a bit worried there might have been a riot at Oxford Geek Night 11: our drinks funding hadn't been renewed.
Wow. Well, now it's out in the open and I can tell you all. Oxford Geek Night 13 on Wednesday 15 July will be co-sponsored by the Guardian Open Platform.
The Guardian's Open Platform and Datastore work has really put them at the forefront of modern media.