London Web Standards - Node & Tell

This month we have a slightly different format, one main talk plus several short talks covering different projects from Node.js enthusiasts in our community.
An Introduction to Node.js

What do you get if you mix Google Chrome and the JavaScript programming language? A strangely beautiful love-child for creating fast, scalable network applications. Discover how JavaScript is bridging the gap between browsers and servers and making it easier than ever to create real-time games and applications.

George Ornbo (@shapeshed) is a London-based hacker who started out as a fresh-faced front-end developer, grew some stubble and got sucked into the vortex of server-side development. He has worked with a number of startups including seatwave.com and londontaxiapp.com and spent three months in the Far East of Russia hacking in temperatures of -25°C. George is currently authoring Sams Teach Yourself Node.js in 24 Hours, a beginners book on Node.js. He blogs at shapeshed.com and works at pebblecode.com.
Short Talks

Mairead Buchan (@tiny_m) - Node and Arduino voting machine
Andrew Nesbitt (@teabass) - London Node.js user group website
Simon Thompson - Learning Node.js and NoSQL by developing a concept
Daniel Knell danielknell) & Jason Grant (@flexewebs) - A node.js driven card game