User:Swillison/LondonGeeks/About

London Geeks aims to pull together information about the geek community in and around London, UK. The site combines events, photos and blogs by London-based developers.

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 londongeeks.

Photos are pulled in from Flickr. To have your (London Geek related) photo appear on the site, post it to Flickr and tag it londongeeks.

Got a geeky weblog? Live in London? Post the URL of the homepage del.icio.us with your name as the title and the tag "feedforlondongeeks" and if it supports feed autodiscovery it should get automatically added to our Planet.

Colophon
London Geeks was designed and constructed by Natalie Downe, Simon Willison, Stuart Langridge and Jacob Kaplan-Moss based on code written for Oxford Geeks. 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.