Meeting
July’s meet is back in Birmingham, starting at 2pm in the Old Joint Stock and then likely moving on. Topics include Opera Dragonfly, Google Gears and how to promote your startup.
Read more about this meeting on Upcoming.
More Geek in the Park
Full details of Geek in the Park 2008 are now available. Saturday the 9th of August in Leamington Spa, including a day picnic and
an evening of talks.
Featuring Jon Hicks with “Pixel Pushing: An Introduction to Icon Design” and Drew McLellan on “What Brian Cant Never Taught You About Metadata”.
Operatic Moves
Bruce, former international man of mystery and local WASP member, has moved jobs to work for Opera as a Web Evangelist. He’ll be popping along to the next meeting, so you can harangue him about Dragonfly and Opera 9.5. Read more about it on Bruce’s blog.
Room in the Big Room?
Big Room Internet in Gloucester are currently recruiting PHP folks and designery types. http://www.bigroominternet.co.uk/recruitment for more information.
Apture Capture
Paul has been busy doing design work for newly out of beta service - Apture - if you feel a need for contextual information widgets they seem to be the place to go.
School Daze, Dad Days and Art Craze
- Rob from Sponge Project has been busy redesigning the site for Tirlebrook Primary School. We like the handprints.
- Stef has also been busy with his new project Odadeo.com a site for improving dads.
- Meanwhile over at Art Flock, a local startup focused on selling arts and crafts, Ed has added new features allowing artists to point their own domain at the service. Ed’s also looking for ideas for promoting the service, pop along to the Forum if you have any ideas.