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The H Community Calendar

October 2012

Selected events in the UK and elsewhere in October

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're on Twitter, add the #thehcc tag to your tweeted announcement.

Update – New event on 25-26 October (Android), new event on 26-27 October (Firebird).

Update 2 – New event on 3-4 November (Internet of Things).

Note: Most events listed take place in the evening. Check times and locations before travelling.


1st 1 October - Data - London

Who: Big Data London
What:
14th Big Data meetup – the meetup has teamed up with the O'Reilly Strata Conference and will take place on the first evening of the conference. Attendees do not have to be registered for the conference, but can get a discount for it.
Cost:
Free / Register on Meetup


2nd 2 October - Hacks/Hackers - Brighton

Who: Hacks/Hackers Brighton
What:
Hacks and Hackers Meetup – Following the relaunch of the Channel 4 News website, James Box – UX designer for Clearleft – will reflect on the successes and failures of its 'responsive redesign'. Andy Hume will explain and showcase some of the responsive design work going on at the Guardian.
Cost:
Free / Register on Meetup


4th 4 October - PHP - London SE1

Who: PHP London
What:
PHP PubCon – regular monthly social meeting. This month Ben Waine will be giving a talk on "The Art Of Application Logging".
Cost:
Free / Register on Meetup


4th 4 October - Perl - London W2

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


6th - 7th 5 & 6-7 October - PHP - Manchester

Who: PHPNW
What:
PHP NW 2012 – an annual conference run by passionate volunteers for the community to come together and talk about PHP. The conference will be preceded by a tutorial day on Friday.
Cost: £200 (Early Bird Tutorial Day), £115 (Standard Conference), £65 (concession) / Register


8th 8 October - Ruby - London EC1V

Who: London Ruby User Group
What:
Regular monthly meetup – after a talk about "Beautiful command-line interface design" from John Leach and one other talk, details to be confirmed, the meetup will continue in informal fashion in the pub.
Cost:
Free / Register at Skills Matter


9 October - Ajax - London EC1V

Who: London Ajax User Group
What:
User group meeting – the topic for October is "The Future of the Web Platform", with a talk by Alex Russell on "Web Components & MDV: The Web Platform Gets Serious," followed by an open discussion.
Cost:
Free / Register at Skills Matter and on Meetup


10th 10 October - 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)


10th 10 October - Java - London WC1E

Who: London Java Community
What:
"Getting there from here: Java, Scala and Service Orientation at the Guardian" – technical leads within the Guardian will discuss their experiences of having a hybrid Scala and Java codebase and being in the middle of a migration from a monolith architecture to one that is more service-orientated.
Cost:
Free / Register on Meetup


13th - 14th 13-14 October - Python - Dublin, Ireland

Who: Python Ireland
What:
PyCon Ireland – the premier Irish open source conference for python programming enthusiasts, professionals and students.
Cost:
€50 (standard rate), €30 (student), €150 (corporate) / Register


14 October - Java - London E1

Who: London Java Community
What:
Java 8 Lambdas hackday – The latest of the LJC's series of Adopt-a-JSR hackdays will be led by Brian Goetz, a key member of the Oracle Java Team, who will give a presentation introducing lambdas. The event will be hosted at the Park Plaza Victoria as part of JAX London.
Cost:
Free / Register on Meetup


15 October - 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


16th 16 October - Java - London

Who: London Java Community
What:
London Developer Sessions – regular monthly social meeting.
Cost:
Free / Register on Meetup


18th 18 October - 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


24th 24 October - Hacks/Hackers - London E1

Who: Hacks/Hackers London
What:
Hacks and Hackers Meetup – details to be confirmed.
Cost:
Free / Register on Meetup


24th 24 October - JBoss - London EC1V

Who: JBoss User Group
What:
"Arquillian - Integration testing made easy" – Davide d'Alto will present an overview of Arquillian, complete with usage scenarios, and will show how it can be integrated into testing frameworks such as JUnit.
Cost:
Free / Register at on Meetup


25th - 26th 25-26 October - Android - London N1

Who: Droidcon
What: Droidcon London – "2 days, 30+ speakers, 1000+ participants, 100% android."
Cost: £200+VAT (until 15 October), £50+VAT (student) / Register


26th - 27th 26-27 October - Firebird - Luxembourg

Who: Firebird
What: Firebird Conference 2012 – The conference will cover a variety topics: Firebird SQL language improvements, performance, optimization, database protection and recovery, and many others, with presentations by the Firebird Core team.
Cost: £136.80 (Early Bird until 1 Oct) / Register


27th 27 October - FLOSS - London WC2E

Who: FLOSS UK and BCS OSSG
What:
FLOSS UK unconference – An unconference is a conference where what happens is organised by the delegates on the day. A good opportunity to build informal relationships in the UK open source community and keep up with new and emerging technologies.
Cost:
Free (no registration necessary)


Coming later in the year

3-4 November - Internet of Things - Liverpool

Who: DoES Liverpool
What: Internet of Things Howduino – a weekend of exploring, experimenting, collaborating and learning about the Internet of Things.
Cost: Free / Register


9-11 November - Mozilla - London SE10

Who: Mozilla
What:
2012 Mozilla Festival – This year's theme is "Making, Freedom and the Web". A long weekend with five goals: to make, learn, imagine, design and fuel. More details are available on the wiki.
Cost:
£40 (regular ticket), £3 (youth ticket) / Register


24 November - Perl - London W1W

Who: London Perl Workshop
What:
London Perl Workshop – the theme for this year's event is "25 Years of Perl", and will focus on the way Perl is used in the commercial world and the strength of Perl for development in an enterprise environment.
Cost:
Free / Register


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