Deb Bassett - Urbanwide

GeekUp Leeds Pub Crawl - 6pm, Wed 19th Dec, 2007

It’s nearly GeekUp time again, so I’d like to announce Leeds’ 7th GeekUp. We fancied a bit of festive cheer this month, so we’re swapping our regular format for a GeekUp Pub Crawl. As usual we’ll be starting in the Lounge at 6pm (NB. in the regular bar area), then moving on to the next pub at 7ish to give everyone a chance to meet up.

Do tell us if you’re coming

Details:
* When: 6:00 PM Wednesday 19th December, 2007 (Moving on from 7:00PM)
* Where: The Lounge, St. Johns House, Merrion St, Leeds LS2 8JE
* Photo of the the Lounge
* GeekUp web site

November GeekUp Leeds Roundup & NorthCast

November GeekUp turned out to be a cracker, once again, with a great turnout, so thank you everyone!

A big thank you to Dom (the Hodge) Hodgson for another great presentation - “from 10 to 10,000 listeners, in a year and a half - The power of podcasting”.

Dom also gave us a sneak preview of NorthCast, the exciting new bi-weekly (that’s twice a month) podcast, which I’m proud to be part of (in spirit so far at least anyway), along with GeekUp veterans Paul Stanton and Ryan Taylor.

NorthCast is dedicated to all things tech in the North - news, events, start-ups and interviews - so get your flatcaps on - NorthCast will be coming your way soon! NorthCast is run by the community, for the community, so if you have something you’d like to get off your chest, do get in touch.

We were pleased to have another last minute addition this month - Tom Smith (of everythingability & head York monkey) stepped up to give us a completely improvised talk on django, the python web framework, with only a few website mishaps from me (as I tried to navigate the django site), the talk was fully entertaining and informative, so thanks Tom!

* photos from last month’s GeekUp

GeekUp Leeds - 6pm, Wed 21st Nov, 2007

Hot on the heals of BarCamp Leeds is the 6th GeekUp Leeds! This month I’ve been assured we’ll be back in our old room out the back after our surprise room change last month.

GeekUp veteran Dominic Hodgson (aka “the Hodge”) will be giving us a 20:20 lightning talk on “from 10 to 10,000 listeners, in a year and a half - The power of podcasting”.

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… Plus we’ll honour our traditional ad-hoc 20:20 slot for anyone with a last minute talk or announcement.

Do tell us if you’re coming

Details:
* When: 6:00 PM Wednesday 21st November, 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
* 20:20 presentation format

Last month, we had another great turnout despite the room change! Big thanks to Rahoul Baruah (aka Baz) for telling us “Why Rails programmers are so smug”, he gave us an informative (and impressively timed) Rails talk - providing the inspiration needed to pick up Rails for the first time.

We also had a last minute addition - Lee Strafford stood up to tell us about project Sahara, which I’m sure we’ll be hearing much more about this weekend at BarCamp.

* photos from last month’s GeekUp

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