Category: Dotnorth
We Made (Another) BarCamp!
Wow. We did it again…We made another BarCamp 🙂 Last year, we just had 28 days to prepare Leeds’ first unconference – and none of us had done this before. This year, we had a couple extra weeks and some sponsors already in the bag, but the team was less available, we’d scheduled an additional…
Girl Geek Dinner {Leeds}
Last night saw Leeds’ first Girl Geek Dinner and the third of eight events taking place throughout the city’s inaugural web festival at Brisbane, LS1. Around sixty girls and a half dozen guys squeezed into the night’s venue, The Study, on the third floor of the Living Room. Though the heavens had opened up with…
LS1: The (first) Leeds Web Festival
As London’s blogoshpere bloviates about the unfolding story of that city’s Silicon Roundabout, it’s easy to overlook the progress others are making to bootstrap technology ecospheres elsewhere in the UK. Leeds is by no means London, Boston or San Francisco, but the one of Britain’s emerging city regions is quietly orienting itself to the future…
OpenCoffee Leeds {July}
This month, OpenCoffee was a little quieter than usual, with only around twelve people arriving throughout the morning…infact the smallest crowd since we started out in June last year. I’m wondering if people are finding Old Broadcasting House less reachable or pleasant…or if the weather was just too good to be hanging around with a…
Leeds Met: Innovation North Showcase 2008
Damn – looks like I’ll miss the ITP Spring Show again this year (no cheap flights to NYC..grrr!) but I’ll again have the pleasure of reviewing the work of my alma mater at the VIP Evening of this year’s Innovation North Showcase at Leeds Met. I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of last year’s…
Dotnorth Snippets…
A quick roundup of techly-geek things happening across the North… The results of the Leeds Flickr Group’s Photoshop CS3 course are online… Look out for Andy Mitchell’s GTDInbox, a Firefox addon that mods Gmail to reflect the Getting Things Done philosophy. Next week sees Manoj Ranaweera’s Northern Startup Business event, with talks from Liverpool Ventures,…
OpenCoffee Leeds {April} + Coworking Day
Last month’s OpenCoffee {March} could have been a bit of a downer, with only a handful of people attending. I’m still wondering if I shoulda canceled it while I was in the US for ETech and eComm, but sounds like 10-15 people did make it out to Loftart so it was worth keeping the doors…
(Dot)Northern Snippets
More goodies… Ray Kurzwell – yes Ray Kurzwell – has been added to the roster of speakers for Newcastle’s Thinking Digital in May. I don’t think the Singularity will emerge from the North East, but it’s possible to argue that Newcastle United players are transhuman 😉 Oh yeah, <coughs> Greg Dyke too. Media Lab Europe…
Think and a Drink
Last Thursday I was invited by Gareth Rushgrove to speak on a panel at Codeworks’ Think and a Drink event in Newcastle. Each month Codeworks orients the evening around a theme of interest for the (paying) audience…this month, the focus was on Web 2.0 & Business with a pair of talks from Gareth Rushgrove and…
You Go Girl!
Maz, Linda and I started talking about a Leeds chapter of Sara Sarah Blow‘s Girl Geek Dinner a few months ago as a response to the modest turnout of women at tech/geek meetups in Yorkshire. We’d planned to shoot for January, then February filled up, so we figured March. But we’ve been beaten by Valerie…