Speakers and topics for Refresh Edinburgh, 6th April 2007
Matt Riggott
After much procrastination we've finalised the line-up for the Refresh
Edinburgh event happening on 6th April 2007. All the gory details
below.
13:00–13:20: Introduction to Refresh
John Sutherland will introduce the day's schedule.
13:20–14:00: Google Sightseeing
James Turnbull and Alex Turnbull will talk about their blog, Google
Sightseeing, and how they turned it into a book.
<http://googlesightseeing.com/>
14:00–14:40: Project management basics for busy geeks
Meri Williams, information and decision solutions manager at Procter &
Gamble, will tell us that project management is not the enemy. Meri
will cover the basic project lifecycle, the "big secret" of project
management, and tools to help you better manage your projects.
<http://blog.meriwilliams.com/>
15:00–15:15: Flock
Tony Farndon, author of several popular extensions for Flock,
discusses the social-networking browser, its potential, and how to
extend it.
<http://flock.spatialviews.com/>
15:15–15:30: Edinburgh Menus
Andrew Cavers shows off his latest creation, Edinburgh Menus, a Google
Maps mash-up with menus and listings for all Edinburgh restaurants,
cafés, bars, pubs, and takeaways.
<http://edinburghmenus.com/>
15:30–15:45: Microformats
Brian Suda of the Microformats Project and author of the
O'Reilly-published "Using Microformats", will introduce us to, you
guessed it, microformats.
<http://suda.co.uk/>
15:45–16:00: The business argument for web standards
John Sutherland, web programmer with Mercurytide, will make the
business argument for web standards.
<http://sneeu.com/>
16:00–16:40: Revish
Dan Champion of Blether and Champion IS Ltd will introduce us to his
latest project, Revish, a book review site.
<http://blog.revish.com/>
17:00–17:40: Groopit
Tom Griffiths unveils Groopit, a new social tool that helps existing
groups of friends do more together.
<http://groopit.com/>
17:40–18:00: Closing remarks
Matt Riggott makes the closing remarks before we head of the pub for
the real conference.
If you want to add all this into your calendar, you're in luck: we've
created a public Google Calendar that you can subscribe to.
To add it to your own Goole Calendar:
<http://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=eb6casi901qk6446kvcdiijl9g%40group.calendar.google.com>
or <http://tinyurl.com/36wc6t>.
To subscribe to the Refresh iCal feed:
<http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/eb6casi901qk6446kvcdiijl9g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics>
or <http://tinyurl.com/3yzlzr>.
To subscribe to the XML feed:
<http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/eb6casi901qk6446kvcdiijl9g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic>
or <http://tinyurl.com/2okd5o>.
We're in the process of looking for a venue for Refresh; we have a
couple to look at but if anyone has any ideas then please feel free to
reply on this thread. (Remember we're two poor developers doing this
for love not money, so expensive venues are out!)
Thanks to the speakers for agreeing to take part, and we hope to see
all you folk there.
M.
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Matt Riggott (mailto:matt.r...@gmail.com).
Dictated but not read.
olly jackson
On Mar 18, 8:46 pm, "Matt Riggott" <matt.rigg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We're in the process of looking for a venue for Refresh; we have a
> couple to look at but if anyone has any ideas then please feel free to
> reply on this thread. (Remember we're two poor developers doing this
> for love not money, so expensive venues are out!)
Any word on the venue yet?
Olly