The H Community Calendar – November 2011

Selected events coming up in the UK and elsewhere in November

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 24-25 November (Android), new event on 1 December (Clojure)

Update – New event on 22 November (Hacker News), new event on 23 November (Hacks/Hackers)

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

3 November - Geospatial Data - London WC2E

Who: Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) and Geospatial Specialist Group
What: Open Source, Open Minds – Using web technologies to rescue geospatial data from the back office.
Cost: Free / Register

3 November - PHP - London SE1

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

3 November - Perl - London

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

4-6 November - Mozilla - London

Who: Mozilla
What: Mozilla Festival 2011– "Minimum talkfest, maximum web making." This year’s theme is Media, Freedom and the Web: how can the web can make us more creative, collaborative and connected in an age of broadcasters big and small?
Cost: £60 (regular) / £30 (Student & Partner Community Member) / Register

8 November - Ajax - London EC1V

Who: London Ajax User Group
What: User group meeting – with a round table discussion on the topic of "Design Patterns and Web Apps".
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

9 November - 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)

9-10 November - Alfresco - London SE1

Who: Alfresco
What: Alfresco DevCon 2011 Europe – "The premier event for connecting the Alfresco community with Alfresco Engineers" with two days of Alfresco technical sessions including tracks on Alfresco as a Platform, Best Practices, Customizing Alfresco, Case Studies, BPM, and Building WCM Solutions with Alfresco. Pre-conference training sessions are being run on 8 November.
Cost: £304 (advance) / £365 (at the conference) / Register

12 November - Perl - London W1G

Who: London Perl Mongers
What: London Perl Workshop – The theme will be Industrial Strength Perl, and will focus on how Perl is used in the commercial world and the strength of Perl for development in an enterprise environment.
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)

14 November - Ruby - London EC1V

Who: London Ruby User Group
What: Regular monthly meetup – the agenda is wide open for this meeting; volunteers welcome.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter

15 November - Java - London SE1

Who: London Java Community
What: User group meeting – regular monthly social gathering of members of The London Java Community and Graduate Developer Communities.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

16 November - Data - London

Who: Big Data London
What: 6th Big Data London meetup – will include a talk on "R Analytics in the Cloud" along with other subjects to be confirmed.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

17 November - 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 November - Groovy & Grails - London

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

22 November - Hacks/Hackers - Brighton

Who: Hacks/Hackers Brighton
What: Hacks and Hackers Meetup – Hacks/Hackers global coordinator and New York co-organiser Chrys Wu will be in town to talk about what Hacks/Hackers chapters around the world have been doing.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

22 November - Hacker News - London

Who: Hacker News London
What: Hacker News meetup – the final Hacker News London meetup of 2011, with the headline speaker, Shed Simove.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

23 November - Hacks/Hackers - London E1

Who: Hacks/Hackers London
What: Hacks and Hackers Meetup – with a talk by Stephen Grey on "Hacking the rendition flights". Other sessions to be determined.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

23 November - Elgg - London

Who: London Elgg Meetup Group
What: User group meeting – regular meeting to bring together the collaborators, developers, users and anyone else interested in Elgg.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

24 November - Scala - London EC2R

Who: London Scala Users' Group
What: Mongo DB and Scala – Brendan McAdams will be giving an overview of how to use scala with MongoDB.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup and at Skills Matter

24-25 November - Android - London EC1Y

Who: The Android Workshop
What: The Android Workshop – a two day workshop designed to provide a practical introduction to Android development fundamentals.
Cost: £375 (advance) / Register at Eventbrite

28 November - JBoss - London NW1

Who: JBoss User Group
What: JBoss User Group – Heiko Rupp, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and RHQ specialist, will give an overview of RHQ and JBoss ON, talk about the new stuff in RHQ 4.2 and JBoss ON 3.0 and also showcase the start of REST api.
Cost: Free / Register at C2B2 and on Meetup

Coming in December

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

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: £295.00+VAT / Register

Coming in 2012

13-14 April - Open Source - Edinburgh

Who: Open Source Scotland
What: Open Source Scotland – a 2-day conference with 26 speakers covering new technology, ideas and methods, with social events on the night before and the day after.
Cost: not yet announced

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.