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.net magazine mentions OGN

jp.stacey 29 October 2007

Oxford Geek Nights have got a mention in the November 2007 issue of .net magazine.

OGN7 writeup at the Google OS Blog

jp.stacey 10 July 2008
OGN7 writeup on Google. It has to be pithier next time or they'll turn it into pirate-speak to spite me.

The writeup for OGN7 is live on the Google OS blog. If you were there, then you probably won't learn anything new; if you weren't, then what was your excuse?

OGN8 has become the musical OGN

jp.stacey 8 August 2008
Oxford Geek Nights #8: Rockin' Rabbit. Because home socializing is killing public speaking.

Without trying particularly hard, I seem to have turned OGN8 into Online Music OGN. All right, I did book Ben Walker, geek troubadour to do a turn prior to the speakers.

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.

OGN10: bursting at the seams

jp.stacey 24 January 2009
Suppose they gave a local geek mini-conference and everybody came?

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.

Oxford Geek Night #10 on Google OS blog

jp.stacey 17 February 2009
Writeup appears on the Google OS blog

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...!

OGN11 early tomorrow but I'm running late

jp.stacey 24 March 2009
Gosh, is that the time? Twenty-four to April, you say? I should be getting on.

Oxford Geek Night 11 is tomorrow, starting at the earlier time of 8pm.

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.