BarCamp Leeds - 17th November, 2007


BarCamp Leeds registration is now open, so get your snack on and get signed up!

When:
* Saturday 17th November, 2007.
* Doors open at 10am, event starts at 10:30

Where:
* Old Broadcasting House, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9EN

Registration:
* sign up

Further Info
* Official site

Aside from myself, your friendly BarCamp organisers are Imran Ali, Tom Scott & Dominic Hodgson. Big thanks to them for putting all this together so far.

BarCamp is looking for sponsors so if you know of anyone who’d be interested in contributing, let us know.

GeekUp Leeds - 6pm, Wed 17th Oct, 2007


I’m pleased to announce the 5th GeekUp Leeds! We can’t quite promise the same entertainment as last month’s, but the line-up is looking pretty good so far.

Rahoul Baruah (aka Baz) will be giving us a 20:20 on “Why Rails programmers are so smug” - an outline of his favourite features of both Ruby and Rails, and how they can help you build web applications quickly and easily.

There’s still one scheduled 20:20 slot free so do get in touch if there’s something you’d like to get off your chest…

In true tradition we will also honour our turn-up-on-the-night-with-a-20:20-slot, where it’s left up to the GeekUp crowd to decide on the night who gets to talk. The 20:20 format is outlined on the GeekUp wiki but it’s essentially 20 slides, with 20 seconds per slide.

Do tell us if you’re coming

Details:
* When: 6:00 PM Wednesday 17th October, 2007 (Talks start at 7:00PM)
* Where: The Lounge, St. Johns House, Merrion St, Leeds LS2 8JE
* Photo of the the Lounge
* GeekUp web site

Last month, we were fortunate enough to have 3 fabulous speakers. First up was Tim with his snappy review of the Leeds Open Street Map mapping party, it was great to see how the Leeds coverage progressed in the space of a weekend. Thanks also to Phil for his MIX mastication - with bonus points for added props & heckling! James Holden filled our turn-up-on-the-night-with-a-20:20 slot, where he told us all about how interactive text messaging works and how you can use it in your own projects, so big thanks to him.

* photos from last month’s GeekUp