The H Community Calendar – August 2011
Selected events coming up in the UK and elsewhere in August
The H Community Calendar presents the coming month's events in various open source, development, Linux, Unix and other communities, from multi-day conferences to user group get-togethers.
If you are an event organiser, let The H know about your event by sending us a mail at thehcc@h-online.com, or if you Twitter, add the #thehcc tag to your tweeted announcement.
Update – New event on 9 August (Ajax)
Update 2 – Registration open for EuroBSDCon 2011 in October
Note: Unless stated, events listed take place in the evening.
1-5 August - Hacking Open Data - across the UK
Who: Young Rewired State
What: Young Rewired State 2011 is a week long hack event that ends with the projects being presented to government, industry and press. It is being held in 12 locations across the UK.
Cost: Free / Register to take part - Register to attend the presentations
2 August - Arduino - Manchester
Who: Omniversity of Manchester
What: Building the Internet of Things - Arduino and Ethernet – with the addition of an Ethernet shield, Arduino boards make an excellent platform on which to explore the Internet of Things.
Note: this event takes place during the day.
Cost: £132.00 / Register
4 August - PHP - London SE1
Who: PHP London
What: A regular monthly meeting
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)
4 August - Perl - London W2
Who: London Perl Mongers
What: London.pm Social – regular monthly social meeting.
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)
8 August - Ruby - London EC1V
Who: London Ruby User Group
What: Regular monthly meetup with talks on "Managing Web Application Servers with Puppet" and "cucumber-chef", a tool that uses cucumber and chef for doing test-driven infrastructure.
Cost: Free / Register
9 August - Ajax - London EC1V
Who: London Ajax User Group
What: User group meeting – with a talk on "Developing Web Apps with the Cappuccino Framework" by Jonathan Evans, followed by various lightning talks.
Cost: Free / Register
10 August - Linux - Reading
Who: Silicon Corridor Linux User Group
What: A regular social evening for Linux users in the Reading area.
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)
10 August - Scala - London EC2R
Who: London Scala Users' Group
What: Practical Scalaz: making your life easier the hard way – This talk will concentrate on using Scalaz to help make certain tasks easier and to avoid repeating yourself. The focus will be on using the library, not understanding its internals.
Cost: Free / Register
13-14 August - Open source - Farnham
Who: OggCamp
What: OggCamp 11 - a two-day technology festival bringing together people from the Linux, Open Source and Hardware Hacking communities.
Cost: Free / Register
17-19 August - Ruby & Rails - Manchester
Who: Omniversity of Manchester
What: Ruby & Rails Bootcamp – Learn how to develop high-quality web applications fast using Ruby on Rails, the powerful open-source web framework.
Note: this event takes place during the day.
Cost: £360.00 / Register
20 August - Events - London EC1A
Who: Encampment
What: Encampment London - An unconference for event professionals, volunteers, and aspiring organisers.
Cost: Free / Register
25 August - Arduino - London
Who: London Arduino Meetup Group
What: Monthly meetup - an evening talking about Arduino, meeting people from the industry, bouncing ideas around, and picking the brains of more experienced Arduinists.
Cost: Free / Register
Coming in September
5-8 September - Open source - Oxford
Who: TransferSummit
What: TransferSummit – TransferSummit provides a forum for business executives and members of the academic and research community to discuss requirements, challenges, and opportunities in the use, development, licensing, and future of Open Source technology.
Cost: £475.00+VAT (Academic) £750.00+VAT (General) / Register
24-25 September - Python - Coventry
Who: PyCon UK
What: PyCon UK 2011 – The theme for this year's UK Python conference is "Python in depth". Sessions will include testing, a code clinic, Django, PyPy, XML, Design and Graphical Programming.
Cost: £95.00 (concessions £75.00) / Register
Later in the Year
6-9 October - BSD - Maarssen, The Netherlands
Who: EuroBSDCon
What: EuroBSDcon 2011 – This year marks the 10th anniversary of EuroBSDCon, the technical conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. The two-day conference (8-9 Oct) will be preceded by two days of tutorials (6-7 Oct)
Cost: Main conference, early registration prices until 31 August – €144+VAT (Student) €250+VAT (Regular/Business) / Register
If you are an event organiser, let The H know about your event by sending us a mail at thehcc@h-online.com, or if you Twitter, add the #thehcc tag to your tweeted announcement.