The H Community Calendar – January 2012

Selected events coming up in the UK and elsewhere in January

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 10 January (Ajax), new event on 19 January (Ruby)

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

5 January - PHP - London SE1

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

9 January - Ruby - London EC1V

Who: London Ruby User Group
What: Regular monthly meetup – Chris McGrath is giving a talk about lessons learned localising a rails app into nine different languages and Joe Corcoran will talk about building Judge, a client side form validation gem for Rails 3.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter

10 January - SilverStripe - London

Who: The UK SilverStripe CMS User Group
What: User group meetup – with talks on SilverStripe performance, SilverStripe 3 and SilverStripe agencies in the UK.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

10 January - Ajax - London EC1V

Who: London Ajax User Group
What: User group meeting – "Trends and Patterns in Ajax, JavaScript, and HTML5", a summary of the changes and their impact on development efforts.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup and at Skills Matter

11 January - 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)

16 January - Groovy & Grails - London

Who: London Groovy & Grails User Group
What: LGGUG user group meetup – regular monthly meetup. Discussion topics to be determined.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup and at SkillsMatter

18 January - Hacks/Hackers - London

Who: Hacks/Hackers London
What: Hacks/Hackers Meetup – regular monthly meetup for coders, hackers and journalists.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

18 January - Data - London

Who: Big Data London
What: 7th Big Data London meetup – an evening of Big Data talks and discussions.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

18 January - Scala - London EC2R

Who: London Scala Users' Group
What: LSUG meeting – with a talk by Paul Butcher on the native Scala mocking framework: "ScalaMock: 'Power' mocking for Scala".
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup and at Skills Matter

19 January - 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

19 January - Ruby - Manchester

Who: North West Ruby User Group
What: NWRUG user group meeting – The New Year Lightning Round, a series of lightning talks.
Cost: Free

20-21 January - Government - London

Who: UKGovcamp
What: UKGovcamp 2012 – a self-organised unconference for government types with an interest in how the public sector uses technology. Running over two days for the first time: day one consists of crowdsourced unconference sessions, while day two is "GovCamp Doing Things" day.
Cost: Free

Coming in February

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 – the 7th annual UK PHP conference is now expanding to a two-day event to accommodate the growth of the PHP community and PHP development industry.
Cost: From £120+VAT (1 day earlybird 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.