Deb Bassett - Urbanwide

GeekUp Leeds - Quiz Night - Wed 19th Nov, 6pm

Your friendly host for the evening will be Mr Tim Waters (aka Chippy) who will be facilitating a Geeky Quiz (QuizUp?)! There will be 3 rounds with 30 questions in total:

Round 1. General geekness
Round 2. Techy questions
Round 3. Internet memes

There’s been rumor of 20:20 presentations from The Hodge on “Search Like A Superstar” and Helen Harrop on “Creativity and Computing” if she can make it…

Which still means we’re looking for volunteers for presentations as they are not confirmed! Please get in touch if you’re interested in talking!

Rob and I unfortunately can’t make it as we’ve both committed to help out at the 20 x 20 Science Cafe at the Otley Science Festival where Rob will be predicting the Future of the Internet!!!!!

Big thanks to Tim for taking on GeekUp this month, I’m gutted to be missing the quiz!

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GeekUp Leeds Needs You! Wed, Sept 17, 6pm

My Last Project

This month at GeekUp we thought we’d borrow from Simon Wheatley’s idea that worked so well at BarCamp and invite GeekUpers to do a 20:20 on their last project.

Your last project could be a website, discovering Ruby Shoes, growing stuff #inthegarden, launching an affiliate network for a bathroom store, doing a web design 101 for a friend, running a celebrity gossip site, setting up your own home security camera network, singing articles from wikipedia accompanied by a ukelele, presenting your own radio show / podcast, setting up a business, joining a rowing club, learning how not to get into your own house, creative crafts, making a greenhouse watering system with an Arduino, PR 101… anything!

So if you’re interested in taking part, do let us know! We’re a friendly bunch and we’ll try not to heckle.

Big thanks to Simon for letting us nick his idea. It’s GPL’d by word of mouth

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Details:

• When: 6:00 PM Wednesday 17th Sept, 2008 (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

GeekUp Leeds: Hardware HackUp - Wednesday 16th July, 6pm

It’s GeekUp time already, so time to announce the happenings at next Wednesday’s GeekUp.

We have a bit of a one-off special this month with Rob Lee of Rattle Research speaking about “Hardware Hacking for Software People”.

We’ll have some Arduino boards for people to play with, kindly donated by tinker.it. So if you feel like having a go, bring your laptop along and Rob will show you how to take your first steps into the world of hardware hacking.

There’s still time to squeeze in a 20:20 - if anyone’s up for the challenge (this month, or indeed another month), please do get in touch!

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