The H Community Calendar – February 2012

Selected events coming up in the UK and elsewhere in February

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 11-12 February (accessibility)

Update – New events on 16 February (Ruby), 21 February (search), 22 February (Hacker News) and 23 February (hardware)

Note: Unless stated, events listed take place in the evening.

2 February - Perl - London W2

Who: London Perl Mongers
What: London.pm Social – regular monthly social meeting.
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)

2 February - PHP - London SE1

Who: PHP London
What: PHP "PubCon" – regular monthly social meeting
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)

4-5 February - FOSS - Brussels, Belgium

Who: FOSDEM
What: FOSDEM 2012 – the biggest free and non-commercial event organized by and for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet.
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)

8 February - 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)

8 February - Scala - London EC2R

Who: London Scala Users' Group
What: Spring in Scala – a talk by Jan Machacek, comparing Scala to the other languages on the Java platform, looking at how to see and apply the patterns of functional programming, and exploring the principles of type systems.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup and at Skills Matter

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: Sold out / Register

11-12 February - Accessibility - London EC1V

Who: RNIB and London Android User Group
What: Official RNIB Accessibility Hackathon – The RNIB are working with the London Android User Group to provide a night of making accessible hacks and learning more about accessibility APIs.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup and at SkillsMatter

14 February - Ajax - London EC1V

Who: London Ajax User Group
What: User group meeting – topic to be confirmed.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup and at SkillsMatter

15 February - Data - London

Who: Big Data London
What: 8th Big Data London meetup – an evening of Big Data talks and discussions.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

16 February - Scala - London EC2R

Who: London Scala Users' Group
What: LSug Scala coding dojo – a regular coding dojo session run on the third Thursday of every month.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

16 February - Ruby - Manchester

Who: North West Ruby User Group
What: NWRUG user group meeting – Ash Moran will be giving a from-the-trenches talk on speeding up the Rails test loop.
Cost: Free

20 February - Groovy & Grails - London

Who: London Groovy & Grails User Group
What: LGGUG user group meetup – details to be confirmed.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup and at SkillsMatter

21 February - Ruby - London EC1V

Who: London Ruby User Group
What: Regular monthly meetup – the February meeting is devoted to lightning talks. Confirmed subjects include websockets, capistrano extensions and custom documentation generators.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter

21 February - Search - London W1B

Who: London Open Source Search Social
What: LOSSS meetup – as usual the format is completely open, bring your own topics, questions, show and tell.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

22 February - JBoss - London EC1V

Who: JBoss User Group
What: JBoss User Group meeting – this month's event is focused on Hibernate, with a presentation by Emmanuel Bernard, Hibernate OGM Founder.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup and at C2B2

22 February - Hacker News - London

Who: Hacker News London Meetup Group
What: Hacker News London meetup – Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow, is the headline speaker at the February event.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

23 February - Hardware - London WC1X

Who: Open Source Hardware User Group
What: Event #16 Manufacturing – three talks about the first-hand experiences of taking an open source hardware design from being a project to a product: "From Breadboard to Finished Product", "Arduino Shield: From Design to Manufacturing" and "Design and Build of Modular RepRap Electronics".
Cost: Free / Register

24-25 February - PHP - London

Who: PHP London
What: PHP UK Conference – the 7th annual UK PHP conference has expanded to a two-day event to accommodate the growth of the PHP community and PHP development industry.
Cost: From £140+VAT (1 day standard rate) to £250+VAT (2 days standard rate) / Register

Coming in March

20-22 March - LISA - Edinburgh

Who: FLOSS UK
What: Spring 2012 – the annual Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) conference, the UK's only conference aimed specifically at systems and network administrators. As well as the technical talks, the conference provides a friendly environment for delegates to meet. It is being held in conjunction with Puppet Camp 2012.
Cost: From £50 (conference student rate) to £210 (commercial member 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.