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.

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?

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?

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.

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!