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Minibar Mobile - London, 30th May 2008

MiniBar on 30th May 2008 is a Mobile Special:

On May 30th, MiniBar will focus on what's cool and hot in the mobile web space. So if you run a start-up with a mobile product or service, are developing the next Skype, or building the hippest iPhone apps - let us know and present at MiniBar Mobile.

Program:
LocoMatrix - geo-location-based games - Richard Vahrman
Truphone - VOIP on mobile phones - Alexander Straub
Next2Friends - mobile social network - Roy Shelton
Flirtomatic - mobile dating - Priya Prakash
Mippin - mobile aggregator - Scott Beaumont
3G Dating Agency - mobile dating - Romi Parmar

Vodafone Betavine - development network - Margaret Gold
SUN Startup program - Stewart Townsend

And it's always worth reiterating the MiniBar Mantra:

MiniBar is a social evening in East London which offers people a chance to snaffle some free beer while discussing p2p, Creative Commons, web applications, social networking and general Web 2.0 (3.0) mayhem & fandango.

Here you can find people who will help you making your next project work. The event is what we call 'useful fun'. Usually there are 200+ of London's - and beyond - finest web entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, tech journalists, bloggers, VCs, and technology freaks.

Kicking off at 6.30pm, Minibar takes places at:
Corbet Place Bar - Truman Brewery
E1 6NH
London

PyCon UK 2008 - Call for Papers, Talks and Tutorials

Last year's PyCon was a roaring success, and the organisers of PyCon 2008 have high hopes for this year's iteration. It will be held at the Birmingham Conservatoire from the 12th - 14th September 2008, and they are just in the process of calling for speakers:

PyCon UK 2008 is an independent, community-run, community-controlled and not-for-profit conference dedicated to the Python programming language, Python applications, toolkits and frameworks. It also features social events and a chance to meet fellow Python users. It is organised by members of Python User Groups from across the United Kingdom.

Last Year, PyConUK 2007 was attended by over 200 delegates and featured around 50 talks and tutorials, as well as a conference dinner and two pub events.

PyCon UK 2008 will be taking place in Birmingham City Centre from the 12th-14th September. We are after Talks, Tutorials and Other events. To submit a talk, please visit our submissions page:
http://www.pyconuk.org/submit

We're looking for proposals on all aspects of Python - programming from novice to advanced levels; applications and frameworks, or how you have been involved in introducing Python into your organisation.

TOC Tutorial DVDs

Our American colleagues at O'Reilly have announced the availability of DVDs containing the tutorials given at Tools of Change 2008 - TOC - in New York in February. The four DVDs available are: Digitizing Your Backlist, Making Mobile Work, XML for Publishers and SEO for Book Publishers: Beyond Book Search.

          Digitize Your Backlist
Your backlist promises long-tail sales and newfound revenue. But to tap this potential, your books must exist in a digital form. Learn practical information to make decisions about digitization.

O'Reilly UK Usergroup Newsletter

The latest O'Reilly UK Usergroup Newsletter, assembled by our own Josette Garcia, has just been posted. Complete with Reviews, Events, Conferences and salient articles on the O'Reilly Network.

Richard Stallman Talks in Manchester - May 1st 2008

Richard Stallman, Free Software advocate and subject of Sam William's book Free As In Freedom, will talk in Manchester on May 1st 2008 on Free Software in Ethics and Practice       :

Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms.

Thursday 1st May, 2008 - Talk starts at 6:45pm (ends approx. 8:30pm) with refreshments from 6:15pm.

Venue:  Room D1, Renold Building, University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB
(Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps)

Minibar - London, Friday 25th April

Friday this week brings another magnificent Minibar, deep in the heart of Shoreditch in London. The presentations include:

Seedcamp.com - 08 investment program - Reshma Sohoni

Kindo.com - new generation family tree

Jivelo.com - review site for dating and personal experience - Guido Picus

Make Your Mark - entrepreneurship campaign - Dan McQuillan

Social Innovation Special
the two winners of Social Innovation Camp will present - plus we will have  Paul Miller speaking about the .ORG revolution

The Carbon Account - personal carbon calculation - Jamie Andrews

Main Sponsor: London Development Agency and Make Your Mark

Drinks Sponsor: Gimme
Supporting Sponsor: Realeyes
Media Partner: Intruders.tv

Truman Brewery
Corbet Place
E1 6NH
London
02077706100
Info/Map

It's a benchmark of the benefit of presenting at Minibar that they themselves have begun using Webjam to build an online community. Webjam is a London-based start-up who presented in March.

geeKyoto 2008 - London, May 17th

Mark Simpkins and O'Reilly author Ben Hammersley are putting together a conference on how developers can help save the environment called geeKyoto 2008. geeKyoto will take place between 10:00 - 16:30 on Saturday 17th May 2008 at Conway Hall in London.

We broke the world. Now what?

Mark Simpkins and Ben Hammersley announce a one day conference in central London, with designers, technologists, artists, architects, policy-makers, explorers, economists and scientists, and clever people like you, to discuss the future and how we'll live in it.

geeKyoto 2008 is a cross-discipline event, targeted at everybody with an interest in the world we live in.

Speaking we have:

* Adrian Hon - ARG Games Designer
* Christian Nold - Artist
* Gavin Starks - Website
* Alex Haw - Architect
* Ben Saunders - Explorer, Speaker
* DIY Kyoto
* Richard Sandford - Futurelab
* Adam Thorpe - Vexed Generation & Design Against Crime (Central St. Martins)
* Emma Mulqueny - UK GovWeb
* Mitchell Sava - PolicyWonk
* James Smith - Do The Green Thing
* Bryony Worthington

We will follow the event with a social meetup nearby.

We are also in discussion with the organisers of 4Good, The festival of social innovation and 4IP, Channel 4's new innovations fund to find ways to progress the ideas and conversations that start at geeKyoto.

geeKyoto 2008 is being supported by:

Proboscis is a not-for-profit artist-led studio which combines artistic practice with commissioning, curatorial projects, design and consultancy. Collaboration is at the core of our creative practice and ethos: we work across disciplines and practices - with associate artists, writers, curators, critics, designers, technologists, filmmakers, scientists and theorists - to explore social, cultural and creative issues.

It costs £20 to attend. Tickets are available at http://www.geekyoto.com/

Java IDE Day - Italy

Carlo Bonamico writes:

JUG Genova and JUG Rome are happy to announce that the talk slides and demo screencasts, together with a full report of the event are online on the http://www.ideday.org website. A transcript of the final panel on the future of Java IDEs, as well as a photo gallery are also available.

The IDE Day started as a follow-up to the very successfull IDE shootout organized by the Cologne JUG.

The Genova JUG together with JUG Roma, which also was interested by the proposal, invited representatives from the four major IDEs (NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, JDeveloper); everyone was very interested and supportive, although, unfortunately, Eclipse was unable to participate because it was already involved in other events (including, obviously, EclipseCon) in the same period.

We decided that the event had to be less than a “confrontation” of the IDEs and more of a community event, where experts, developers and students could discuss the innovation and the future of Java development tools.

We think that this idea did resonate in many places, since we received significant (and absolutely necessary) support in organizing the IDE day not only from Sun, Oracle and JetBrains, from the Faculties of Engineering of Genova and Rome Universities, but also from the Open-Lab student association and O’Reilly UK.

Moreover, a number of local companies active in the Java development,traning and consulting areas were happy to support the event by offering a coffee break and, more importantly, by promoting the Java IDE Day among their employees and contacts: Eptamedia, Finsa Consulting, ManyDesigns, NIS and K-Tech.

The IDE day took place in Genova on the 10th of March and in Rome the following 12th. It definitely was a success: more than 200 developers attended it overall (130 in Genova and 70 in Rome). Beside the number, a positive result has been that everyone could appreciate three very interesting speakers showing not just very high quality technical content but more significantly, a lot of collaboration between them.

The talk slides and demo screencasts, together with a full report of the event are online on the http://www.ideday.org website. This report is in English and more focused on the Genova event; for more information on the Rome event you can visit  Report on javaportal.it (in Italian). For a first-hand report in Italian see http://www.giampierogranatella.com/blog.

A transcript of the final panel on the future of Java IDEs, as well as a photo gallery are also available.

A big thank you again to all people and organizations who made the IDE Day a success, and parparticularly to Paolo, Angelo, Alessandro, Giampiero, Corrado A, Corrado L, Fabio, Fabrizio, Mara, Giorgio, and Carlo.

Telegraph.co.uk Developer Weekend - 26th/27th April 2008

The UK media company The Telegraph is hosting a Developer Weekend 2008 at their offices in Victoria, London on the 26th-27th April, 2008:

This event offers the chance to:

# hear from some of the industry's best speakers about their views on where the news, media and technology industries are heading;
# meet and talk to key technical staff from Internet companies like Digg, Adobe, Apple and Google;
# gain a deeper understanding of the latest developments on these platforms and participate in focussed technical training sessions;
# participate in a product development competition, which will mix great content with great technology to create some fantastic products. Prizes wil be awarded to the top 3 products created.

You have till the 18th April to apply. Sign-up here.

BarCamp North East - 24th/25th May 2008

All eyes will turn to Newcastle-upon-Tyne over the weekend of the 24th and 25th May 2008 when Barcamp North East happens.

The venue is:

THE ART WORKS GALLERIES
Stepney Bank
Ouseburn
Newcastle
NE1 2NP
England
map

A fine list of participants already signed up include a healthy contingent travelling up from the M62 and Glyn Wintle from the Open Rights Group. Should be good. Sign up for free tickets here.

Barcamp Amsterdam and Lille

Kris Buytaert writes:

Barcamp Season seems to be hot ... Barcamp Gent with the accompanying GeekDinner is barely finished and it's already time to head to Amsterdam for this weekend's Barcamp Amsterdam IV which will take place in the Volkskrant Gebouw.

After these 2 you'll be exhausted ... so you'll get plenty of time to rest till Barcamp Lille which will be held on May 24 at the Lille Management School.

Don't tell us nothing is happening in mainland Europe!

Going Solo - Conference for Freelancing Internet Professionals

Going Solo is a real Scratch Your Own Itch conference. Stephanie Booth attended too many events that, in her opinion, weren't as well organised as they could have been, so she decided to stick neck out and create her own conference. Going Solo is a one-day event taking place in Lausanne, Switzerland on May 16th, 2008 that will look at the skills and knowledge needed to be a freelancer or business owner in the realm of the Internet. Proceedings take place at Hôtel Albatros-Navigation, Place de la Navigation, Lausanne, and you have till the end of the day today (31st March 2008) to register for the Early Bird knock-down price of 400 CHF (approx. 250€, £190, US$365).

The programme is still in preparation. However, here is an overview of the topics we plan to cover during Going Solo, on May 16th 2008:

• skills a freelancer needs (doing the work, marketing and networking, contracts and cash flow)
• fixing prices, closing deals, negotiating contracts (the hardcore businessy stuff)
• what kind of work freelancers in the 2.0 world do (some jobs are more suitable for soloists than others)
• marketing and taking care of one’s social capital (blogging… and being a good online citizen)
• tools of the trade (what software/tools/methods can assist you as a freelancer?)
• coworking and staying in touch with “colleagues” (compensating for “working alone” — we remain social animals)
• challenges in making a passion into a job, dealing with the blurring of the life/work distinction
• international clients, travel, different laws and tax rules, accounting
• soloist or small business?
• adapting to different kinds of clients (in particular, how do you deal with big corporations that you approach or who have approached you)
• is there a market for what I’m doing?

Four speakers have already confirmed their participation:

• Stowe Boyd
• Suw Charman
• Martin Roell
• Laura Fitton

Minibar - London, 28th March 2008

For those of you in London tonight, you could do worse than wash up at Minibar in Shoreditch. Proceedings begin at 6.30ish with talks from:

Piins.com  - currently in stealth mode - first public appearance - Charly

Webjam.com - create your own social network - Alberto Barriero

Trampoline Systems - enterprise software harnessing social behaviour - Charles Armstrong

Truman Brewery
Corbet Place
E1 6NH
London
02077706100
Info/Map

Quality stuff.

Social Innovation Camp 4th-6th April 2008

Social Innovation Camp takes place in London the weekend after next:

When: 6pm, Friday 4th - 4pm Sunday, 6th April 2008

Where: The Young Foundation, Bethnal Green

The idea is to bring together web developers/people who want to make a difference in order to create and re-purpose Web 2.0/Social Networking tools to address the real issues in society:

So, the ideas that will be developed at the Social Innovation Camp, 4th-6th April 2008 are:

- Barcode Wikipedia

A site for storing user-generated information – such as carbon footprint, manufacturing conditions and reviews - against a product, identified by its barcode number.

- Enabled by Design

A resource for anyone looking to make adjustments to their lives, be it as a result of disability, injury or impairment.

- Personal development reports

An online system that supports young people to identify their personal skills and qualities.

- Prison visits

A tool to support the families of prisoners coping with the experience of being apart from a loved one.

- Rate My CV

A site for helping jobseekers using Web 2.0 tools, with a focus on migrant workers.

- Stuffshare

Freecycle meets Street Car: a stuff club.

Think Tomorrow

Kris Buytaert writes:

An De Jonghe is organizing a fresh new event in Brussels Thursday, June 5th 2008.

Think Tomorrow will take place at the Crowne Plaza Brussels Airport.

Think Tomorrow will try to teach companies on how to integrated Web .20 trends profitably into their corporate strategy. You'll meet organizations that have successfully implemented Web 2.0 elements into their online recruitment campaigns or sales & marketing departments.

An has speakers lined up such as Wim De Waele (BE), Director of IBBT, Octavio Pitaluga (BR), Founder of TEN, Emeric Ernoult (FR), Co-founder of Affinitz and Marco Ripanto (GER), Founder of eKaabo.

Plugg Startup Competition

Kris Buytaert writes:

The votes for the first round of the Plugg Startup competition are in, out of the 18 startups that were selected to take part of the Startup rally, a professional jury combined with the audience to select 3 Startups:

In alphabetical order:
Bragster
Viewdle
Zilok

They are giving a 10 minute pitch now ..  we'll see what happens...

The polls are later today.

Minibar - London, 28th March 2008

Friday 28th March 2008 is Minibar day, the day in the month when developers in London get to forget their cares and worries for a while and drink beer to a soundtrack of the hottest start-ups and the happeningest notions. Presentations begin at just gone 6pm at the usual place:

   Truman Brewery
   Corbet Place
   E1 6NH
   London
   02077706100
   Info/Map

This month brings:

Piins.com  - currently in stealth mode - first public appearance - Charly

Webjam.com - create your own social network - Alberto Barriero

Trampoline Systems - enterprise software harnessing social behaviour - Charles Armstrong

The Drinks Sponsor is Webjam.com. May the multitudes speak their name with reverence.

InfoQ - the Movie

Over the last three days, O'Reilly have been working a book stand at QCon in the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in London. While we haven't been able to get into any of the presentations ourselves, word is this has been a fantastic conference, both stimulating and friendly, and it's certainly a pleasure to be here.

James Cox has been patrolling the halls with a video camera interviewing speakers:

QCon Day Two from James Cox on Vimeo.

Libre Graphics Meeting in Wrocław, 8-11 May

Daniel James writes:

LGM brings together developers and users of the best in free software graphics applications, including Scribus, Krita, the Gimp, Inkscape, Blender and more. This year, the event is taking place at the Wrocław University of Technology in western Poland. The event is free to attend, but registration in advance is suggested, via the LGM website:

http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/index.php?lang=en

Fireside Conversations - Outerthought and Seth Gottlieb

Kris Buytaert writes:

The nice folks over at Outerthought are organizing a Fireside Conversations with Seth Gottlieb On Open Source Content Management.

Outerthought will host an exclusive "fireside conversation" with Seth Gottlieb, on the subject of evaluating open source content management systems. The concept of a fireside conversation is a leisurely-paced discussion between participants sharing common interests.

Seth Gottlieb, founded Content Here where he advises clients on the opportunities (and challenges) associated with using open source content technologies.

Outerthought are the authors of Daisy, an open source CMS in use primarily for content and knowledge management, and the management of complex information repositories.

You can request your invitation here.

EuroBlog 2008

Kris Buytaert writes:

The Cluetrain is coming to Brussels for EuroBlog 2008:

The Euprera EuroBlog2008 Symposium, Social media and the future of PR: New ideas, new research, new business, takes place in Brussels on March 13-15.

• Programme
• Registration + Accommodation
• Facebook group + Google map of Participants

Interesting line-up with people like Steve Rubel, Neville Hobson and David Weinberger.

OpenTech 2008 - Calls for Participation

Sam Smith writes:

Call for Participation - OpenTech 2008

Saturday 5 July 2008, London, UK

Presented by UKUUG in association with mySociety + Open Rights Group
http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/

* What is OpenTech 2008?*
A low-cost, one-day grassroots conference with a wide range of sessions covering digital technology, society and the environment

* What do we need?*
Proposals from people who want to give a presentation, run a panel, organise a workshop, or run a demo of something new and interesting

* What topics do we hope to cover?*
- Mashups, open data and security
- Future of media distribution
- Low-carbon and low-impact living
- New adventures in hardware hacking
- Politics 2.0
- Long term thinking on big problems and massive opportunities - If you've got an interesting proposal that doesn't fit into any of the categories above, please send it in anyway!

* How do I submit a proposal?"
Please use the form on http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/
The deadline for submissions is midnight on Sunday 30 March 2008

* Can I buy or reserve a ticket to the event?*
Register at http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/list and we'll email you nearer the time with more information

* Any other questions?*
If you have any other questions, or want to make us an offer we can't refuse, please visit http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/ for more information and contact details of the event organisers

Publicity - please blog this announcement, write a newspaper article, forward to mailing lists, and tell your friends!

OpenTech 2008 organisers (Ben Lamb, Etienne Pollard, Sam Smith)
http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/

Christian Heilmann - YUI! JavaScript Evolved?

Dominic Hodgson of Northcrew writes:

On Wednesday 20 February, GeekUp Leeds hosted a presentation by Christian Heilmann on the YUI. It was a great evening, and NorthCast were there to record the whole thing for those of you who couldn't make it ... we're nice like that.

To download this video click here

Christian has also been good enough to post his presentation online:
http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/geekup-leeds-why-the-yui

StartupCamp sorts Sun Starting Startups. On the Seashore.

Paul Robinson writes:

At risk of becoming a mouth-piece for Sun Microsystems after my write-up of their Startup Essentials launch, I thought that given they're being so generous helping with Manchester BarCamp it might be worth pointing out a BarCamp-style event down in London they're running of interest to startups and geeks of all flavours.

StartupCamp is running over 2 days - March 7th & 8th - at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London. Those of you familiar with the BarCamp format will get the deal. Targeted towards entrepreneurs, business strategists, developers, ISVs and "vendors" (they need to stop using that word) get together and, well, you know, geek out with each other.

Sun's latest acquisition MySQL will be in attendance, as will Salesforce.com and if you want free hardware you have a chance thanks to their bizarre-sounding "Best Startup" competition. It's the week after BarCamp Manchester, so I might just pop along myself.

Future of Web Design Returns to London!

Future of Web Design
April 17-18, 2008
Kensington Town Hall, London

Join the industry's leading and most inspirational designers for some class A inspiration and practical advice.

Putting the 'design' back into web design, FOWD brings you a packed day of sessions on the entire design process - from inspiration to build, project management and evolution. We also have a live Photoshop tennis session, where top designers create from scratch on the stage.

Our prestigious speaker list includes:

- Patrick McNeil (DesignMeltdown.com)
- Andy Clarke (stuffandnonsense.co.uk)
- Steve Pearce (Poke)
- Andy Budd (ClearLeft)
- Larissa Meek (AgencyNet)
- Jon Hicks (hicksdesign.com)
- Jina Bolton (jinabolton.com)
- Paul Farnell (Litmus)
- Daniel Burka (Pownce.com)
- Hannah Donovan (Last.fm)
- Miguel Ripoll (Cesser Digital)

For the full on FOWD experience, the one day conference is followed by a day of workshops where you can learn from the best of the best in an intimate classroom environment. Tickets to the workshops are limited and sold out fast at the last FOWD, so don't delay.

The Ruby Crowd heads to Prague

Kris Buytaert writes:

Prague is one of my favorite cities in Europe, yet not that many events that catch my interest are organized there. Xinit points to Euruko:

Euruko is an annual conference about the Ruby programming language with an informal atmosphere and lots of opportunities to listen, to talk, to hack and to have fun. This year it takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, on March 29th to 30th.

Registration just opened and they are still receiving proposals for conference talks. The deadline is on Sunday 9.3.2008 at midnight GMT.

Too bad I don't remember the name of my favorite Restaurant there or I could have added it to Not Soso

And as for the €20 entrance fee, which includes T-shirt, food & drinks, as well as a special present, that's basically FREE.

Minibar, Milan, 15th Feb 2008: Minibar London, 22nd Feb 2008

It's a MiniBar frenzy. Not content with one Minibar in one country, this month Christian Alhert has gone all out to provide two Minibars, 957 km apart.

First up, we've got Minibar Milan on the 15th, put together in conjunction with the Social Media Lab. Christian writes:

Francesco d’Orazio is the main driving force behind this and he has lined up nearly 10 web start-ups. It's twice the amount of start-ups we usually have in London, but at the same time Italians are known for short, precise presentations, running exactly on time (oh well, maybe we just need to have more espressos).
I am superbly happy to add to the anglo-saxon dominated web start-up scene a continental perspective. It will be great to see how approaches, ideas, business models differ. Maybe we can also start assisting the London community to find partners in Italy and vice versa.

And then, on the 22nd Feb, Minibar returns to its roots in the City of London, where the presentations will include:

Vodafone Betavine - development resource and network - Margaret Gold

Vigster.com - social network for video games - Guido Picus

Graffywall.com - the infinite canvass - Antonio Ronaldo Lopes

Media Partner: TechCrunch UK - Mike Butcher

Supported by: BBC Innovation, O'Reilly

So this is where you need to be for Minibar's glorious homecoming:
   Truman Brewery
   Corbet Place
   E1 6NH
   London
   02077706100
Info/Map

DEMO goes Europe

Kris Buytaert writes:

The Palm Desert edition of Demo is just over so it's time to point our European crowd to DEMOgermany 08. On 14 to 15 October, Munchen is the place to be for the European Startups:

DEMOgermany is Europe’s destination for emerging technology. At this second annual event, companies from around the world will be selected to introduce their innovative products and solutions in compact and compelling six-minute presentations over two days in Munich this fall. Each product is carefully screened and selected by DEMO’s Advisory Board, headed by Dr. Hagen Hultzsch, former CIO, Volkswagen AG and Deutsche Telekom AG.

Who knows we get to see startups as exiting as Qumranet, Attendi, Voyand and Notchup rising from the European Scene ...!

PHP Conference UK - 29th February 2008

Paul Morgan, who is organising this year's UK PHP Conference, wrote to us with the following:

This year is a different year, it's a leap year! And in that spirit, PHPLondon are making the jump to a bigger and better venue to hold their 3rd annual PHP Conference. The date is 29th February and the location is at Inmarsat, right next to the Old St underground station (south exit).

The conference will run two tracks, the second more specialised in content, and speakers such as Derick Rethans, Stefan Esser, Ivo Jansch, Zoe Slattery and Scott MacVicar will present on subjects such as security, PHP and enterprise, testing, real-world development and SQLite3. There will also be a special extended presentation on frameworks, including developers talking about three of the more prominent frameworks, Zend Framework, symfony and CodeIgniter.

Tickets are currently £90 (earlybird) including lunch, and you'll be more than welcome to attend the networking event afterwards at the venue for a (free) beer or two. Head on over and register now.

Plugg is coming

Kris Buytaert writes:

The nice organisers of Plugg.eu are offering a 25% (or 100 Euro) discount to all O'Reilly GMT readers. All you have to do is register for the event with "OREILLY" as the discount code.

Early-bird price will go from 400 € to 300 €, and as from the 23rd of February 2008 the code will automatically lower the late-donkey price from 500 € to 400 €.

Confirmed speakers of the event include Mike Butcher from TechCrunch, Reshma Sohoni from SeedCamp,     Lisa Sounio from Dopplr, Andrej Nabergoj from Noovo and Julie Meyer from Ariadne Capital.

Euro Conference Season Isn't Cooling Down Soon

Kris Buytaert writes:

So Profoss kicked off the season, and immediately gave us a lot of interesting things to think about and work on.

For those on the other side of the channel (for me, that's the UK) not willing to travel to Luxembourg, the UKUUG is organizing 2 one-day seminars about storage and backup.

Apachecon is back in Amsterdam this year with a bunch of interesting topics such as Hadoop.

Then there is a list of upcoming Barcamps starting with the Belgian Barcamp which moved to Gent. And there are plans for a Barcamp Enterprise System Management to come to Europe.

And the year isn't even half over yet ...!

BarCamp Manchester is On - 1st March 2008

Paul Robinson writes:

It's been in the works for a while now, but this weekend it finally got announced: BarCamp is coming to Manchester!

Surprisingly for a city with such a vibrant technical and creative community, this is the first one to be held in Manchester, and tickets are going rather sharpish - half of the 100 slots went in the first couple of hours registration was open.

It's happening on Saturday 1st March at the headquarters of MEN Media, publishers of the Manchester Evening News. The exact schedule for the day is currently "under wraps" (i.e. yet to be worked out), but it currently looks like doors will open at 9am, and no matter what time the main event wraps there is going to be an official 'after-party' in a bar somewhere in the city.

You can get more details at the BarCamp Manchester wiki or you can grab yourself a place at the eventwax signup page now.

Minibar Returns for Another Magnificent Year - January 25th 2008

MiniBar is back from its winter break to brighten our January. At 6.30pm on the 25th January 2008 at the Truman Brewery in East London, Christian Alhert will return with a mesmeric line-up of tech start-ups to thrill and amaze. The presenters this time include:

- Microsoft StartUp Initiative
- Paul Bi