OGN 17 on Wednesday
Oxford Geek Night 17 is happening, and it’s happening on Wednesday. That’s this Wednesday. So this week I’ve been running round the office like a headless chicken, and Lawrence has been helping to pick up the pieces. We’ve got posters printed off, and a Pitch sheet drawn up as well. That’s what we record the entries for The Pitch, our sixty-second open mic slots. We’ve still got a few spaces on that so you could tweet me on @jpstacey if you’re interested.
I’m really looking forward to our keynote talks on open-source licensing and user testing from Andrew Katz and Rebecca Gill, but we’ll also have a short announcement to make about the speaker for OGN18, scheduled for three months’ time on July 21st. We’ve got a great keynoter lined up for then but my lips are sealed until this Wednesday (note: lips not actually sealed.)
Along with Lawrence, Nick and Neal will be helping on the night of OGN17 with the tech and video, as usual. Together we’ll be like the four headless chickens of the apocalypse, so it promises to be quite a night.
Change of plan at OGN16
There’s been a change in the speakers for Oxford Geek Night 16 on Wednesday 17 February. We’re really happy that Chris Thorpe will still be giving his keynote talk, about how social media is all about the social and not about the media. Alongside Chris’ talk will be a keynote from Oxford’s very own Garrett Coakley, who will be talking about how to run a successful online community.
Garrett’s well placed to give this talk, having been an administrator of evolt.org and instrumental in the now very successful Oxford Flickr group, which has recently exhibited in central Oxford. He’s also fresh from discussing these very issues at the Leeds GeekUp in 20/20 form, so it should be pretty exciting. If not, then I know where he lives.
Brillskills. OGN16 is shaping up to be pretty darn fine, though I do say so myself. Be there, or don’t, fool.
Oxford Geek Night 16 date confirmed
After a slightly longer break between Oxford Geek Nights to make room for Christmas and the rest, I’m pleased to announce the sixteenth Oxford Geek Night will be on Wednesday 17 February, 2010. That’s next year! Well, in just under two months’ time.
Keynote speakers are confirmed: OGN16 sees the return of microslotter Andrew Katz, lawyer at Moorcrofts Corporate Law and open-source specialist; he’ll be joined by Chris Thorpe, founder of Jaggeree. We hope to have more details about the talks soon.
We’ve already got some microslots lined up for OGN16, but if you’re interested in doing a microslot then submit your suggestion here. Microslots are five minutes long and the OGN crowd is very welcoming to anyone who can stand up and talk for that long!
Right. Now that’s all finalized, I’m off to have a celebratory sherry and listen to some Christmas songs.
Oxford Geek Night 15: open government and web marketing
OGN15 is in a bit over a week’s time, on Wednesday 25 November. It promises to be a great evening as usual, with varied keynote and microslot talks and the usual Oxford(shire) geek chat and networking.
Interestingly, we’ve ended up with common threads through the two quite different keynote talks. Fintan Galvin, who’s talking about the semantic web and its effect on marketing strategies on the web we’re more at home with, will be explaining how the former will change the way we think about such priorities as SEO with regard to the latter; along the way he’ll be mentioning Drupal, which is an ideal solution to a whole host of web content problems. Meanwhile, Jeni Tennison will talk about a new initiative in open UK government, data.gov.uk, which is currently in closed beta and uses a complex stack of technologies including… Drupal and RDF! RDF takes centre stage in the forthcoming Drupal 7 release, so more by luck than judgment our common topic is a pretty hot one.
Of course there’s microslots and the Pitch too—contact me if you want to volunteer for the sixty-second open-mic Pitch, as we’ve still got some spare slots—and we’ve got sponsorship to make sure the whole evening is not just free as in beer, but free as in… other beverages that are available. The Guardian Open Platform are sponsoring drinks again, and Apress have promised us some books for the book raffle. Torchbox is as usual very kindly sponsoring my time, venue costs and infrastructure for the night. Thanks to all our sponsors for their generosity.
Almost everything is in place, which means I might get away with a few days off before the night, but I promise to turn up on the 25th fit and rested. Assuming I’m not still stranded in Birmingham New Street. But then how likely is that, really?
Yet more sponsors: Apress and Friends of ED confirm for OGN14 and 15
Following last week’s great news from the Guardian Open Platform about sponsoring the two remaining Oxford Geek Nights, there’s more great news for the Oxford Geek community, as Apress and Friends of ED have also agreed to sponsor OGN14 and OGN15 with books a-plenty.
We try to always have a book raffle at the end of each Oxford Geek Night, where anyone who’s stuck a business card in our magic business-card box gets a chance to win one of several books donated by a generous sponsor. So thanks for Apress for stepping up to the crease and fielding a whole over of books in our direction for OGN14: we’re guaranteed a great selection of books for local geeks, and another great reason for coming along to OGN14. How can you not?
Yet more sponsors: Apress and Friends of ED confirm for OGN14 and 15
Following last week’s great news from the Guardian Open Platform about sponsoring the two remaining Oxford Geek Nights, there’s more great news for the Oxford Geek community, as Apress and Friends of ED have also agreed to sponsor OGN14 and OGN15 with books a-plenty.
We try to always have a book raffle at the end of each Oxford Geek Night, where anyone who’s stuck a business card in our magic business-card box gets a chance to win one of several books donated by a generous sponsor. So thanks for Apress for stepping up to the crease and fielding a whole over of books in our direction for OGN14: we’re guaranteed a great selection of books for local geeks, and another great reason for coming along to OGN14. How can you not?
OGN 14 and 15 sponsored by the Guardian Open Platform!
After much discussion and chewing of metaphorical pencils, the Guardian Open Platform have very kindly confirmed sponsorship for Oxford Geek Nights, for the rest of 2009! That means drinks will be courtesy of the Open Platform at both Oxford Geek Nights 14 and 15, which I think you’ll agree is great news. Even better news is that regular sponsors Torchbox and Moo are on board as well, so Oxford Geek Nights will continue to be free events.
Speaking of which, OGN14 is now less than two weeks away, and my rising panic is tempered only by the fact that I’m already panicking about moving house shortly beforehand. But you shouldn’t be panicking; instead, put OGN14 in your diary now, or follow it on Upcoming.
OGN 14 and 15 sponsored by the Guardian Open Platform!
After much discussion and chewing of metaphorical pencils, the Guardian Open Platform have very kindly confirmed sponsorship for Oxford Geek Nights, for the rest of 2009! That means drinks will be courtesy of the Open Platform at both Oxford Geek Nights 14 and 15, which I think you’ll agree is great news. Even better news is that regular sponsors Torchbox and Moo are on board as well, so Oxford Geek Nights will continue to be free events.
Speaking of which, OGN14 is now less than two weeks away, and my rising panic is tempered only by the fact that I’m already panicking about moving house shortly beforehand. But you shouldn’t be panicking; instead, put OGN14 in your diary now, or follow it on Upcoming.
Microslots confirmed for OGN14
Never let it be said we don’t listen. You said you wanted OGNs to start half an hour earlier; they now start half an hour earlier. And now you said you wanted more time to chat at OGNs. Lo! and behold: we’ve lined up only four microslots for Oxford Geek Night 14, to give you more time to say hi to everyone else.
In fact, after I came back from conference and waded through my emails (sorry for anyone who had to wait forever for a response) I realised that we’d ended up having a surplus of microslots. But I’ve been mean; I’ve been cruel; I’ve been sending a lot of slightly frantic emails. And the end result is that we’ve probably got a couple of potential microslots already lined up for OGN15 in November anyway. See? Nothing gets wasted at an OGN, especially not good, locally grown ideas and talent. The upshot of all of this is that both keynotes and microslots are confirmed for OGN14.
Speaking of local talent, we’ve still got spaces on The Pitch, which is our sixty-second open-mic session. You can say whatever you like for a full minute: introduce yourself or your company; advertise a vacancy, product or service; discuss a neat idea you had; announce a conference or local meet-up: anything, really. If you’re interested email me at jpstacey.info or find @jpstacey on Twitter.
Otherwise: stick OGN14 in your diary for Wednesday 23 September. That’s in just over two weeks’ time! Turn up, kick back with a beer, and get ready for some extra full-on chatting. Grr!
Microslots confirmed for OGN14
Never let it be said we don’t listen. You said you wanted OGNs to start half an hour earlier; they now start half an hour earlier. And now you said you wanted more time to chat at OGNs. Lo! and behold: we’ve lined up only four microslots for Oxford Geek Night 14, to give you more time to say hi to everyone else.
In fact, after I came back from conference and waded through my emails (sorry for anyone who had to wait forever for a response) I realised that we’d ended up having a surplus of microslots. But I’ve been mean; I’ve been cruel; I’ve been sending a lot of slightly frantic emails. And the end result is that we’ve probably got a couple of potential microslots already lined up for OGN15 in November anyway. See? Nothing gets wasted at an OGN, especially not good, locally grown ideas and talent. The upshot of all of this is that both keynotes and microslots are confirmed for OGN14.
Speaking of local talent, we’ve still got spaces on The Pitch, which is our sixty-second open-mic session. You can say whatever you like for a full minute: introduce yourself or your company; advertise a vacancy, product or service; discuss a neat idea you had; announce a conference or local meet-up: anything, really. If you’re interested email me at jpstacey.info or find @jpstacey on Twitter.
Otherwise: stick OGN14 in your diary for Wednesday 23 September. That’s in just over two weeks’ time! Turn up, kick back with a beer, and get ready for some extra full-on chatting. Grr!
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