GeekUp Leeds - tomorrow (Wed 16th April), 6pm
I’m pleased to announce the 11th GeekUp Leeds! We’re back in the Lounge again after a couple of months away, so head on over, we have a fantastic schedule for you!
This month we’re lucky enough to have 2 talks:
- James McGivern on “Maven, Ant Killer?”
- Lorna Mitchell on “Enterprise Web Development”
There’s just about time for another ad-hoc 20:20 if anyone feels the need!
Details:
- When: 6:00 PM Wednesday 16th April, 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 - next Wednesday, 6pm, the Living Room
It’s nearly GeekUp time again and on the theme of “rooms of the house”, this month’s GeekUp will be upstairs in a room called “the Study” at “the Living Room” on Greek Street. “The Lounge” kicked us out in favour of a larger group, but we’ll be back there again next month.
This month, we are lucky enough to have two 20:20 lightning talks:
- Mark Sailes on “How version control will save the world”
- Daniel Drozdzewski & David Turner on XP (the Extreme Programming variety)
There’s just about time to squeeze in an ad-hoc 20:20 if anyone feels the need. Read more
GeekUp Special Roundup: Christian Heilmann on the YUI
The kidnap of Christian Heilmann went down a treat last month, with a bumper crowd (60ish) turning up at Old Broadcasting House to hear about the YUI - The Yahoo! User Interface Library.
We were really proud to be playing host to such a top chap and a big thanks to Christian for venturing all the way up North in the interests of broadening our technical horizons. Version 2.5 of the YUI was released later on that evening and we were pleased to help kick off the celebrations.
Our Friends
First up, I’d like to say a big thanks to all involved in making this happen:
- River Networks & Rattle Research for the bar tab!
- James & Rob, your friendly hosts and long-term co-organisers
- Richard, your cheerful barman & bar organiser for the evening & brains behind GeekUp Leeds PR (Blue Sky PR)
- Linda from Met:space for the use of the fantastic space that is Old Broadcasting House.
The Coverage
Don’t miss:
- Christian’s slides on slideshare
- The unmissable video of the evening by the cheeky chaps of the NorthCrew
- Photos from the evening
- Coverage on the YUI User Interface Blog, O’reilly GMT, the Yahoo Developer Network, Chris’ own blog, and NTI
Please Call Again
We hope to see you all at the next GeekUp Leeds, on 19th March at the Living Room on Greek Street.
GeekUp’s take place every second Tuesday of the month in Manchester, every third Wednesday in Leeds and every last Thursday in Liverpool and all GeekUp’s are free to attend!
GeekUp Special: YUI - Javascript Evolved? Tomorrow!
This month we’ll be moving away from our regular venue and venturing up to Old Broadcasting House for an exciting GeekUp special.
YUI!?
It’s the Yahoo User Interface Library and in the interests of broadening your technological horizons, we’ve kidnapped Christian Heilmann.
Who?
Christian Heilmann. He works for Yahoo! UK as trainer and web architect and oversees code quality for the big purple Y! in Europe and Asia. He’s also written a book or two and numerous articles on Javascript and web technologies for A List Apart, Ajaxian, Thinkvitamin and Digital Web.
That not enough for you? Well he’s a member of the Web Standards Project’s DOM Scripting Task Force and if we hadn’t hornswoggled him then you’d probably find Chris speaking at a reputable conference like @media ajax or Ajax World.
What about the beer!?
We’ve arranged for a real ale bar for the night also serving the usual lager, wine and a few nibbles.
A little help from our friends
GeekUp Leeds isn’t normally sponsored but this month’s special wouldn’t be possible without: River Networks, Rattle Research, BlueSkyPR and Met:Space
Coming?
Tell us then
* When: 6:00 PM Wednesday February 20th, 2008
* Where: Old Broadcasting House @ Leeds Met, LS2 9EN
* Photo of Old Broadcasting House
* GeekUp site
GeekUp Leeds - 6pm, tomorrow!
It’s GeekUp Leeds tomorrow, so come and grab yourselves a pint, we have an action packed schedule for you! Tom Scott will be giving us a 20:20 on “Juggling with the Facebook API”. The trusty guys from the NorthCast-crew have *another* exciting announcement and will be demoing to us too. Also, Ben has promised us a 20:20 on the virtues of Perl. There’s just about time for another ad-hoc 20:20 if anyone feels the need!
Details:
* When: 6:00 PM Wednesday 16th January, 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 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.
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.
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
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.
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
Go mapping in Leeds this weekend!
I’ve enthused about mapping before, and now here’s your chance to help get Leeds on the map. This weekend, 15th and 16th September, sees Leeds’ first mapping party weekend and I’m really looking forward to going along to help fill in some of the gaps. The event is organised by local geo expert, Tim Waters, who presented at last month’s GeekUp and has also kindly offered to show us the results of the party at next month’s GeekUp.
Current Leeds Coverage:
Open Street Map aims to map the world in order to provide geographical data that is free for all to use. In the UK, mapping data is not free to use, even though the taxes we pay funds the mapping process.
Anyone is welcome to take part in the event providing they come armed with a GPS (Global Positioning System) unit, although some will be available to borrow - full training will be given. Even if you can only donate a couple of hours, you can still contribute to the project!
Walk, cycle and drive around the city, mapping the streets, points of interest, paths, parks, pubs, and whatever else you feel like doing!
For full details of this weekend’s event, see the upcoming page. Hope to see you there!
Photos on Flickr...
