Deb Bassett - Urbanwide

GeekUp Leeds - tomorrow (21st May), 6pm

It’s GeekUp Leeds no 12 tomorrow, and to help us celebrate being nearly one, we have two fabulous 20:20 talks scheduled:

• Linda Broughton on ‘Coworking at Old Broadcasting House‘ - the talk will introduce the community at Old Broadcasting House and look at how people are using the space six months after the opening, feedback from members and from the coworking slot at the Going Solo conference in Lausanne.
• Jeff R. Allen on ‘Entuura, an embedded Linux device targeted at the edge of the network in the developing world’. Jeff is visiting from Portland, USA and is looking to move to Leeds in the near future, am sure we all have lots of insider local info we can share with him!

There’s just about time for another ad-hoc 20:20 if anyone feels the need!

Do tell us if you’re coming

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XTech 20:20 showdown

At XTech this year, I was lucky enough to be one of the organisers for the 20:20 Lightning Talks Session on Thursday evening.

I wanted to say a big thanks to all who took part, your friendly gong-wielding hosts Mike Smith & Rob Lee included and the XTech crowd for providing us with 12 fantastic speakers which we managed to squeeze into 90 minutes.

For those not familiar with the 20:20 lightning talk format, speakers present a fast-paced 20 slides, with 20 seconds per slide (with the exception of Ian Forrester who managed a bumper 72 slides in 6 minutes 40!)

We had an astonishing line-up, feature-rich with internet peeps:

2D barcodes, connecting the real to the virtual
Brian Suda

Gaming and Mashups for Your Mom
Martha Rotter (Microsoft)

HTML 5
Anne van Kesteren (Opera)

The 5 minute guide to RDFa…in only 6 minutes and 40 seconds
Mark Birbeck (webBackplane)

HTML5 Parsing
Henri Sivonen (independent)

Data Portability
Ian Forrester (BBC)

ODFDOM - the new opensourced multi-tiered API for the ISO OpenDocument Format
Svante Schubert (Sun Microsystems)

A review of Device APIs on mobile devices
Kai Hendry (Aplix Corporation)

Opera dragonfly
Charles McCathieNevile (Opera)

W3C Widgets - the simplest way to build client side web apps
Marcos Caceres (W3C Web Application Formats Working Group)

CHIP project @ Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Cultural Heritage Information Personalization)
Natalia Stash (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)

Flickr up your presentation with FlickrUp
Nico Verwer (Be Value)