The H Community Calendar – December 2011
Selected events coming up in the UK and elsewhere in December
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 3rd December (Linux), new event on 12th December (Ruby).
Note: Unless stated, events listed take place in the evening.
1 December - Clojure - London EC1V
Who: London Clojure User Group
What: Clojure eXchange 2011 – London's first exclusive Clojure conference, featuring a half-day workshop wth Uncle Bob Martin and talks on Incanter (Bruce Durling) and Overtone (Sam Aaron).
Cost: £195.00+VAT / Register at Skills Matter
1 December - PHP - London SE1
Who: PHP London
What: PHP "PubCon" – regular monthly social meeting.
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)
1 December - Perl - London SW1X
Who: London Perl Mongers
What: London.pm Social – Heretics social meeting held when the first Thursday of the month falls on the first day of the month.
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)
3 December - Linux - Southampton
Who: HantsLUG
What: Hampshire Linux User Group Meeting – monthly meeting and AGM. Runs from 10:00 to 16:00. Anyone with an interest in GNU/Linux welcome.
Cost: Free
5 December - Groovy & Grails - London
Who: London Groovy & Grails User Group
What: Free workshop – "Introduction to Gradle with Luke Daley", a free half-day workshop at Skills Matter.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup and SkillsMatter
6 December - R - London E1
Who: LondonR
What: LondonR User Group Meeting – with four presentations: "Easy Parallel Stochastic Simulations using Amazon's EC2 & Segue", "Actuarial Pricing using General Linear Models in R", "Practical Optimisation" and "R with COM; the dark side of .NET".
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
8 December - Perl - London EC1R
Who: London Perl Mongers
What: London.pm Social – regular monthly social meeting.
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)
8-9 December - Groovy & Grails - London
Who: SkillsMatter
What: Groovy & Grails eXchange 2011 – Graeme Rocher (inventor of Grails), Guillaume LaForge (inventor of Groovy) and Peter Ledbrook (author of Grails in Action, and fearless leader of the Groovy & Grails User Group) have confirmed that they will be there.
Cost: £395.00+VAT / Register
12 December - Ruby - London
Who: London Ruby User Group
What: Regular monthly meeting – December is API month. For anyone who uses, writes or maintains APIs for web applications, with talks by Mark Burns (HATEOAS) and Javier Ramirez (to be determined).
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter (registration link not live yet)
13 December - Ajax - London EC1V
Who: London Ajax User Group
What: User group meeting – discussion topic to be announced.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup and as Skills Matter
13 December - Scala - London EC2R
Who: London Scala Users' Group
What: LSug Scala coding dojo – a regular coding dojo session.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
14 December - 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)
Coming in 2012
10 February - jQuery - Oxford
Who: White October and jQuery
What: jQuery UK Conference – a day of talks from six jQuery team members and four industry experts.
Cost: £160+VAT (Early bird) / Register
24-25 February - PHP - London
Who: PHP London
What: PHP UK Conference –
Cost: From £90+VAT (1 day blindbird rate) to £250+VAT (2 days standard rate) / 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.