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