events/2006-10-19-wsg-microformats-meetup
WSG Meetup: Microformats
The second ever Web Standards Group meetup in the UK is focused exclusively on microformats. Three different presenters will cover the explanation and implementation of microformats.
The event is free but if you are coming, please add your name on the Upcoming page.
Details
- Date
- Thursday, October 19th
- Time
- 18:30 - 23:00
- Location
- New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University,115 New Cavendish Street, London.
Slides
- Norm!: Microformats (1MB PDF)
- Jeremy Keith: Implementing Microformats (2.4MB PDF)
- Drew McLellan: Can your website be your API? (7MB PDF)
Audio
Podcast (RSS)
- Norm!: Microformats (19.5MB MP3)
- Jeremy Keith: Implementing Microformats (37.4MB MP3)
- Drew McLellan: Can your website be your API? (23.6MB MP3)
- Everyone: Questions and answers (28MB MP3)
Summary
Mark Norman Francis (Norm!), the internet's Drew McLellan, and Jeremy Keith will each give their own take on microformats. Norm! will talk about the history of microformats and explain exactly what they are. Jeremy will give his own personal account of implementing microformats and show just how easy it is. Drew will take it to the next level and look at how microformats can be an API for the whole Web.
Afterwards, there shall be merrymaking at a nearby, as yet undisclosed, drinking establishment.
Attending
Please add your name here if you'll be coming along.
Blog Posts
Seen a blog post about the event? Add a link here.
- isolani: WSG Microformats Talk, London 2006
- chrisadams.me.uk: After the Microformats talk at the UoW
- A billion ways to place: Geek Forever
- CVW Web Design: Microformats Everywhere
- Adactio - Journal: Talking ‘bout microformats
- That Standards Guy: Web Standards Group London: Microformats
- Muffin Research Labs: Following the WSG Microformats event
- Caroline Mockett: WSG London #2 - Microformats
- Frankly Richmond: Microformats. Home-baked APIs?
- Wait till I come!: The WSG Meeting on Microformats in London
Photos
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