September 2012
Selected events in the UK and elsewhere in September
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 5-7 October (PHP).
Update 2 – New events on 26 September (FirefoxOS), 9-11 November (Mozilla) and 24 November (Perl).
Note: Most events listed take place in the evening. Check times and locations before travelling.
4 September - Hacks/Hackers - Brighton
Who: Hacks/Hackers Brighton
What: Hacks and Hackers Meetup – September's meetup of Hacks/Hackers Brighton will be part of the Brighton Digital Festival.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
6 September - PHP - London EC2A
Who: PHP London
What: PHP "PubCon" – regular monthly social meeting. With a talk by Nils Adermann about Composer, a new PHP dependency manager.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
6 September - Perl - London W2
Who: London Perl Mongers
What: London.pm Social – regular monthly social meeting.
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)
10 September - Ruby - London EC1V
Who: London Ruby User Group
What: Regular monthly meetup – "Doing less and keeping it simple", Ian Kynnersley will be giving a talk about simplicity, what it is and why it's so hard to achieve it.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter
11 September - Ajax - London EC1V
Who: London Ajax User Group
What: User group meeting – this month's first talk is "Droptiles: Windows 8 Modern UI on the Web using plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript". The details of the second talk are to be announced.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter and on Meetup
12 September - 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)
12 September - Big Data - London SE1
Who: Big Data London
What: 13th Big Data London meetup – an evening of Big Data talks and discussions.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
12 September - Scala - London EC2R
Who: London Scala Users' Group
What: Talk – a talk by Noel Welsh discussing streaming algorithms, which allow real-time processing of data, scale extraordinarily well, and are simple to implement.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter and on Meetup
15-16 September - Hardware - Hebden Bridge
Who: OSHUG
What: Open Source Hardware Camp 2012 – a weekend-long event with nine talks on the Saturday and four parallel workshops on the Sunday.
Cost: £10.00 / Register
15-16 September - Bitcoin - London WC1B
Who: Bitcoin 2012
What: Bitcoin Conference London 2012 – the aim of this conference is to be the hub for bitcoiners wishing to learn, meet, do business and expand their minds. The hope is that this will be a turning point in bringing bitcoin into the mainstream.
Cost: €70 payable by Bitcoin, email genjix@bitcoin2012.com with the number of tickets you wish to purchase.
17 September - Groovy & Grails - London
Who: London Groovy & Grails User Group
What: LGGUG user group meetup – details to be announced.
Cost: Free / Register at SkillsMatter and on Meetup
18 September - R - London EC3V
Who: LondonR
What: LondonR User Group Meeting – three presentations this month: "From Backtest to Trade using R Parallelization in OneTick", "Mixing R and Hadoop for Large Scale Analysis and Computations" and "Converting S Plus Applications to R". Open to anyone with an interest in R.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
18 September - Java - London W1S
Who: London Java Community
What: London Developer Sessions – regular monthly social meeting.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
20 September - 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
26 September - Hacks/Hackers - London E1
Who: Hacks/Hackers London
What: Hacks and Hackers Meetup – details to be announced.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
26 September - FirefoxOS - WC2N
Who: FirefoxOS meetup group
What: FirefoxOS meetup – the first meetup will be all about FirefoxOS, what it is, why it exists and why its important. Speakers to be confirmed.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
27 September - OpenStack - London SE1
Who: London OpenStack Meetup
What: User group meeting – this month, along with the lightning talks, there will be two session tracks: one for new Stackers and another for hardcore Stackers.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup
Coming later in the year
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), £95 (Early Bird Conference), £65 (concession) / Register
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
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)
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
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.