July 27, 2007
Oxford Geek Nights
On Wednesday I attended Oxford Geek Night 3, as I was curious to see how it compared to Apache events and to the recent BBC/Yahoo Hackday. I have to say I was seriously impressed. There was an excellent turnout, a great feeling to the event, and some fantastic talks. I particularly enjoyed hearing Matt Biddulph and Matthew Somerville, who I've known of virtually for a long time but never managed to meet in real life. The organisation of the event was superb (hey, free beer from Google, what more do you need?) and the musician at the start set a great social tone for the whole night.
It's definitely inspired me to see if we could do something similar on this side of London - perhaps Cambridge would be an obvious choice?
Update: oh, one other thing I forgot to mention - the venue had a fon hotspot, which is the first time I've been able to take advantage of free roaming wifi. I managed to grab email and read some news between the talks and conversations. Oh, and all from the N95, too.
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Posted by savs at July 27, 2007 11:28 AM