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Your friendly host for the evening will be Mr Dom ‘The Hodge’ Hodgson who will be providing us with an evening of Powerpoint Karaoke fun!
Lucy Wurstlin will also be telling us all about 4iP
… a big thanks to everyone involved! If you’re interested in speaking or helping out at a future GeekUp Leeds, do get in touch!
This month we are lucky enough to have three talks lined up:
… a big thanks to all our speakers! if you’re interested in speaking at a future GeekUp Leeds, do get in touch!
This month after all the festive cheer, we’re back to our regular format of beer and 20:20s. We have two talks lined up:
… and a big thanks to Helen for stepping in at the last minute!
This month is mostly about beer but we’re also going to have a “Makes” show and tell i.e. bring along something you’ve made to chat about - techy or non-techy, food or non-foody 
Some examples: A website you’ve built, a woolly hat you’ve knitted, an iPhone app you’ve made, chillis you’ve grown, an Arduino powered greenhouse watering system you’ve built, a cake you’ve baked, a ruby gem you’ve written, photograph’s you’ve taken…
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!
It’s that GeekUp time again so wander down to the Lounge on Wednesday night for your monthly dose of geeky beery fun. This month we have two 20:20 presentations lined up:
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
Details:
We thought we’d have a nice chilled out GeekUp tonight in the name of BarCamp rehab! To help us relax, we going to have a bit of a wii night, so bring your wii sticks along if you fancy a game!
Details:
Going Solo, the conference for Freelancers, is coming to Leeds in September, so if you couldn’t make it over to Lausanne for the last one, here’s your chance to catch it! The date for your diary is 12th September, the current early bird price is £150…
Going Solo is a one-day educational conference for freelancers and small business owners of the internet industry and beyond.
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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