Ask Later Nights

Last night was a lot of fun despite almost destroying my mac and also losing all the audio some really interesting things were presented including snapmap, openhealthrecord and openmonument. For more, see the slides. I do have audio for Laurences talk (the last one) which I’ll get up here soon. update here it is

Update Oliver has put slides and explanations up over here

• Nick Black - Monuments: Past, Preasent & Future
• Mikel Maron - Weaver House, An Unusual East End Building; or How GeoRSS Might Protect Us From Giant Holes in the Ground
• Steve Coast - how (not) to start a company
• Etienne - Personal and Electronic Health Records: An Opportunity
• Oliver White - maps in flight simulation
• Laurence Penney - snapmap

Following the success of a few months back, another night of ask later (because you ask the questions later, in the pub):

• What: night of talks with 20 seconds per slide, 20 slides per talk. Loosely tech talks, branching out encouraged
• Where: Cavendish Campus, Westminster University (sponsored by The Department of Electronics, Communication and Software Engineering)
• When: Tuesday 12th December, 7pm
• Price: Free
• Pub: Ths Ship (over the road from the venue)

Want to speak? Please do! mail me your slides in advance by the 11th December (remember: 20 slides, 20 seconds each). Keynote preferred, then PDF, pictures, OpenDocument and PowerPoint all accepted but no quality guarentees. We put all the slides together to make it an easy seamless evening.

Past speakers include: Tom Armitage, Tom Carden, Steve Coast, Jon Crowcroft, Natalie Downe, Yoz Grahame, Muki Haklay, Rob McKinnon, Alex McLean, Paul Hammond, Sean Varney, Matt Westcott, Simon Willison