Simon Willison’s Weblog

Open Tech 2008 - 5th July in London. Awesome—I still have happy memories of the last Open Tech (back in 2005), very excited about this one. Once again, it’s only a fiver to get in.

Posted 18th March 2008 at 1:03 am

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