The H Community Calendar – May 2012
Selected events coming up in the UK and elsewhere in May
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 events on 10 May (social), 12 May (hack day), 14 May (mobile) and 22 May (development).
Update 2 – New event on 8 May (Raspberry Pi).
Update 3 – New events on 31 May (Perl and Elgg).
Update 4 – New events on 25 May (Hacker News) and 31 May (hardware).
Note: Unless stated, events listed take place in the evening.
3 May - Perl - London W2
Who: London Perl Mongers
What: London.pm Social – regular monthly social meeting.
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)
3 May - PHP - London SE1
Who: PHP London
What: PHP "PubCon" – regular monthly social meeting
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)
8 May - Ajax - London EC1V
Who: London Ajax User Group
What: User group meeting – the two topics for this month are "Etherpad Lite: Make Collaborative Editing the Standard on the Web" and "Continuously integrated JS development with Buster.js and Phantom.js".
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter and on Meetup
8 May - Raspberry Pi - London WC2N
Who: Mozilla
What: Lightweight Software on Lightweight Hardware - Liberty Profile on the Raspberry – a presentation by Simon Maple, who took the uber-lightweight Raspberry Pi computer and installed Debian Linux, Java and the new Liberty Profile on it.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
9 May - 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 May - Java - London EC2A
Who: London Java Community
What: "Java Performance Tuning Workshop" – Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg will guide attendees through the process of conducting a performance audit on a Java web application, analysing the results and fixing any issues.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
10 May - Security - Egham TW20
Who: OWASP
What: OWASP Royal Holloway Meeting – Dinis Cruz will talk about "Making Security Invisible by Becoming the Developer's Best Friends". Other talks are to be confirmed.
Cost: Free
10 May - Social - London WC2N
Who: Mozilla
What: GeekQuiz – an evening of fun and games hosted by Tom Scott & Dom Hodgson.
Cost: Free / Register at Eventbrite
12 May - Hack Day - London WC2N
Who: Mozilla
What: Mozilla MDN Hack Day – the day will start with talks by developer evangelists on some of the key technology projects Mozilla works on, followed by an afternoon spent hacking on a project.
Cost: Free / Register at Eventbrite
14 May - Data - London EC2A
Who: Big Data London
What: Big Data London meetup – an evening of Big Data talks and discussions.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
14 May - Ruby - London EC1V
Who: London Ruby User Group
What: Regular monthly meetup – "Ruby’s bin men: a closer look at the garbage collector", a talk by Elise Huard, and "Dependency Injection, the Dependency Inversion Principle, and You" by Tom Stuart.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter
14 May - Mobile - London EC2A
Who: Mozilla
What: Monday Mobile Madness – a casual night of drinks, music and banter together with Mozilla and the mobile communities of InMobi, Swedish Beers, BlueVia, Ribot, Londroid, Droidcon, Over The Air and more.
Cost: Free / Register at Eventbrite
15 May - Java - London W1S
Who: London Java Community
What: London Developer Sessions – regular monthly social meeting.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
16 May - Java - London WC1H
Who: London Java Community
What: "NoSQL for Java Developers" – a panel of innovators and early adopters discuss their experiences of working with NoSQL.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
17 May - 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
21 May - Groovy & Grails - London
Who: London Groovy & Grails User Group
What: LGGUG user group meetup – details to be confirmed.
Cost: Free / Register at SkillsMatter and on Meetup
22 May - Development - London ExCeL
Who: Salesforce
What: Cloudstock – a free one-day developer event focused on creating mobile and social applications, centred on the Dev Zone, which offers demos, a hack lab, community talks and more.
Cost: Free / Register
23 May - Hacks/Hackers - London E1
Who: Hacks/Hackers London
What: Hacks/Hackers Meetup – details to be confirmed.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
25 May - Hacker News - London EC1V
Who: Hacker News
What: Hacker News meetup – demos and presentations followed by beer. This month's special guest speaker will be Eben Upton, founder of Raspberry Pi.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
25-26 May - Open Source - London E1
Who: Flossie
What: Flossie 2012 – a two day unconference targeted at women users, advocates and developers of FLOSS, digital arts, free culture and open data.
Cost: Free or with donation / Register
30 May - Open Government - London SW1H
Who: Open Gov Summit
What: Open Gov Summit – This event aims to help address issues of software governance and standards, information assurance, and partnership among government, industry and the development communities in order to maximize the potential of open technology solutions.
Cost: Free / Register
31 May - Perl - London WC1R
Who: London Perl Mongers
What: London.pm Technical meeting – the four talks for the next technical meeting are: "Lovecraftian Perl", "Terminal Interface Construction KIT", "Labyrinth is/isn't a Web Framework" and "RE2: Faster regexp matching".
Cost: Free / Register
31 May - Elgg - London WC2N
Who: London Elgg Meetup Group
What: Spring London Elgg Meetup – meetup, talk about Elgg and look over the great stuff from ElggCamp San Francisco.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
31 May - Hardware - London WC1X
Who: OSHUG – Open Source Hardware User Group
What: Event #19 — Kits – with presentations on "The Homesense Project" and "Quick2Wire".
Cost: Free / Register
Coming in June
20 June - MongoDB - London EC4V
Who: 10gen and MongoDB
What: MongoDB UK 2012 – an annual one-day conference in London dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB, with over 40 sessions from developers, users, and technology partners.
Cost: $30 (student rate), $50 (early bird until 23 May) or $100 (general admission) / Register on Eventbrite
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.