About this site
Oxford Geeks aims to pull together information about the geek community in and around Oxford, UK. The site combines local events, photos and blogs by local developers. We also have a public mailing list.
Oxford what?
Oxford Geeks. We're people who are passionate about what we do. If you're passionately enthusiastic about something, you're probably a geek too. This site is mainly aimed at geeks of computer science and/or Web development, but we're a pretty diverse bunch. Everything2 has a great explanation of what it means to be a geek in the 21st century.
Listing your stuff
Events on this site are pulled in from Upcoming, a social event listing site. If you are running a relevant event post it to Upcoming and tag it oxfordgeeks.
Photos are pulled in from Flickr. To have your (Oxford Geek related) photo appear on the site, post it to Flickr and tag it oxfordgeeks.
Got a geeky weblog? Live in Oxfordshire? Tell us about it and we'll add it to our Planet.
Colophon
Oxford Geeks was designed and constructed by Natalie Downe and Simon Willison. The site is automatically cobbled together once an hour by a tangled mess of Python scripts, with a few SSIs for good measure.
RSS syndication is handled by Planet Venus, which incorporates pieces of Planet Planet, the Universal Feed Parser, html5lib, htmltmpl, httplib2 and Django.
Photos are from Flickr, events are from Upcoming (via upcoming-python-api) and the mailing list is powered by Google Groups. Thumbshots were generated using WebThumb.
The site is hosted on a Bytemark virtual machine using Ubuntu and nginx. The site news is hosted on WordPress.com.
