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 - 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, Wednesday 18th July, 2007
I’m pleased to announce the second GeekUp Leeds! This month’s format will be 2 talks + social. Dave Verwer (of afeeda fame) is kindly heading over the Pennines to give us a 15 minute presentation on Unobtrusive Javascript (thanks Dave) & Dominic Hodgson of StickyEyes will be doing a 20:20 lightning talk on Search Engine Optimisation - which promises to be informative, fast-paced *and* entertaining.
Please note the change of venue to the Lounge! We’ve reserved an area out the back, grab yourself a drink and we’ll see you there.
Details:
* When: 6:00 PM Wednesday 18th July, 2007 (Talks start at 7:30PM)
* Where: The Lounge, St. Johns House, Merrion St, Leeds LS2 8JE
* Photo of the the Lounge
* GeekUp web site
Unobtrusive Javascript at GeekUp Liverpool
Just a quick reminder about GeekUp Liverpool tomorrow. Dave Verwer (of afeeda fame) will be talking about unobtrusive javascript at 3345 Parr Street from 6pm.
Details:
* Signup
* When: 6:00 PM Thursday June 28th, 2007
* Where: 3345 Parr Street, Liverpool
* GeekUp’s home on the web
Announcing GeekUp Leeds!
GeekUp is coming to Leeds! Join us for our first monthly Leeds social at the Cross Keys on Water Lane on Wednesday 20th June.
GeekUp is a community of web designers, web developers, and other tech-minded folk from the North West. Socials take place once a month in Manchester, Liverpool and now Leeds and are always a lively place to share ideas and spread a little knowledge.
We’ve reserved the room upstairs at the Cross Keys, so grab yourself a drink and we’ll see you up there. We’ll be there from 6pm.
Please tell us if you’re coming
Details:
* When: 6:00 PM Wednesday June 20th, 2007
* Where: The Cross Keys, 107 Water Lane, Leeds LS11 5WD
* Photo of the Cross Keys
* GeekUp web site
Expectnation Launches!
Last week marked somewhat of a milestone for us as Edd announced the launch of Expectnation! For those who haven’t heard of Expectnation, it’s a web application for managing conferences: use it to manage your speakers, accept proposals, build schedules, publish your web site and more.
I’ve been working with Edd on Expectnation for some time now and I’m excited to see it open up for all to see.
So, if you organise, speak at, or attend conferences of any sort, please recommend it to a conference organiser near you!
Find out more:
* Edd announces the launch of Expectnation
* Expectnation tour, with screenshots
* XTech 2007 was completely managed using Expectnation
Photos on Flickr...
