Welcome to November’s rundown of web-related news from the Midlands. It’s a bumper newsletter this month, as everybody has been hiding indoors from the snow and coding like crazy!
November Gathering
Come and join us for discussion of all things web, Saturday November 8th, 2008 at 2:00pm in the Old Joint Stock.
Topics for this meeting include: OpenID and MS finally doing a web office suite
Read more about this meeting on Upcoming.
Geek in the Park Audio
You can now download Jon Hicks and Drew Mclellan’s talks from the August event at Geek in the Park Including everything you every wanted to know about icon design and metadata through a playschool lense. Also with transcripts!
Hello World!
Birmingham had a free digital festival. Who knew? We all piled along to see Heather Champ of flickr.com talk about community management. A good time was had by all and this’ll be one to watch next year. Matt liveblogged some of it
Multicoloured Sw0pshop
Darren from Siftware dropped us a line to mention his new project. Due to launch round about Xmas time, it’s a site for swapping skills and items as part of the new barter economy.
Nighttime Simian Antics
Sam has been hard at work on the new version of his site. Fixed backgrounds with scrolling transparency are the new black, apparently.
Psst? Need a new motor?
Anthony has just finished the latest version of CarCast, which helps you sell or buy cars using RSS.
Artistic Generation
Another Matt got in contact about his site, Abandoned Art, where he’s engaged in experiments using Java to generate arty things.
Visual Design Workshop
Andy Clarke is running another in his series of excellent courses on modern web design down in London.
Find out more at Andy’s site, phone him for more information and say Multipack sent you.
Even if you don’t go, you should definitely subscribe to Andy’s blog , where he talks about all this new fangled CSS3 stuff that we didn’t have in my day.
Looking for Collaborators?
Well, come along to a ‘pack meeting then!
But failing that, you might find Collabfinder useful for discovering like-minded folk to work on projects.