South London Geek Nights offer a chance for web developers, designers, technologists and the like in the local area to get together, share their knowledge and talk about new ideas, issues, techniques and more.
Each event consists of two keynote talks of 15 minutes each. You can also expect frenetic bursts of socialising and networking, interspersed with two bunches of 5-minute-long microslots. And beer. It's in a pub, after all.
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Keynotes
Keynote speakers are invited to talk at South London Geek Night. SLGN3 will feature:
Firefox in the future by Seth Bindernagel, William Quiviger and Desigan Chinniah from Mozilla Labs
We've invited some members of the Mozilla Labs crew to come along, and they'll be sharing some funky HTML5 demos in the soon-to-be-released Firefox 4. They'll also be letting in you in on a couple of the equally funky features in the works for a future version of Firefox: Account Management, where you can use Firefox as a trusted agent to regain control of your online identity, and Jetpack, which will take the pain out of add-on development.
Cutting Carbon 10 per cent at a time by Robin Houston from 10:10
Robin will talk about the history of the 10:10 campaign and a few of their online projects old and new. He'll also get in a plug for the Carbon Hack Weekend that 10:10 is organising with Rewired State and the Guardian on 30-31 October. 10:10 is a movement of people, schools, businesses and organisations cutting their carbon by 10% in a year
Microslots
These are five-minute "lightning" talks that anyone can volunteer for. They're easy to do: pick something that excites you, or a project you've worked on that you think might be of interest; then talk to a friendly audience for just five minutes with a handful of slides. Submit your microslot and we'll see you on the night!
Confirmed microslots for SLGN3 are:
Hats: serious business by Matt Ratcliffe and Tim James from Masters of Pie - This microslot looks at hats in video games and why they increase a game's awesomeness by 300%. Matt and Tim will talk about Valve's Team Fortress 2 being a first-person military hat simulator and how Transformice would be a shadow of its former self without top hats, moustaches and silly glasses. They're also threatening to do a serious bit about player reward, addiction and social status, before talking about a hat system they want to intergrate into their new indie game, Time Ninjas.
Interaction Design, the Bill Hicks way by Ian Fenn - William Melvin "Bill" Hicks was an American stand-up comedian, philosopher and a satirist. Widely recognised as one of the world’s greatest stand-up comedians, his premature death aged 32 in 1994 left a legacy that continues to this day. In this entertaining talk, Ian will demonstrate what interaction designers and developers can learn from Bill’s approach, beginning with his much-revered honesty. The talk will encourage UX professionals to look to other creative and skilled disciplines for inspiration and impart key guiding principles that should serve them well throughout their work.
Hard fun for soft coders by Dj Walker-Morgan - When you've finished a heavy day coding, you want to have some fun. But you're a geek, so what to play with? How about an Arduino: fun, open source hardware which can let geek coders get a taste of assembling electronics without that nasty solder stuff...
A short rant about board games by Colm Brophy - "Why I think Monopoly is terrible and why the Germans rule the world of board games."
To 3D to HD by Elkin Gordon Atwell - "A short talk on the rise of 3D-HD / Gigapixel photography and why it is now the focus of so much attention. It'll also touch on the use of 3D-HD / gigapixels within social media and the impact it will have within this medium, from blogging to viral marketing"
The Bedford - The Ballroom (on the first floor - not the room at the top we've used previously)
77 Bedford Hill, Balham, London SW12 9HD
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Thanks to our sponsors!
South London Geek Night 3 is made possible thanks to a contribution from business tools startup Skylight
Skylight aims to bring everything you’re going to ever need to manage your business easily in one powerful application.
Project management and collaboration is made simple with Skylight. Book resources, equipment, people, assign tasks and manage stages or phases of each project. Keep track of project activity, file commenting and approvals, invoices, use time logs for time billing and much, much more.
Skylight is in open beta and completely free - all we ask is your input in making Skylight an ultimate business webapp. So please sign up and let us know what you think.
The raffle prizes for South London Geek Night 3 are kindly provided by O'Reilly UK and H-Online - make sure you drop your name or business card into the box on the bar!
Big thanks also go to Torchbox, who are keen supporters of the whole Geek Night concept and also let us use the design from Oxford Geek Nights. Cheers!
Finally, South London Geek Night is organised by London-based Django shop Some Fantastic
