Ignite Bristol - July 15th 2010 South London Geek Night 2 Flash Camp Manchester, July 8th 2010 Java Power Tools Bootcamp - Zen and the Art of Build Script Maintenance - Real Programmers Don't Need Unit Tests - John Smart At Skillsmatter Arduino DevCamp - Oxford, July 10th 2010 DevCon London – 27th – 29th September, Novotel London West JAX London - 27th–29th September, 2010 It's a Geek's World - A British Science Festival Event Erlang Factory - 10th-11th June 2010 Minibar - Drupal 101 - Get Started with Drupal and Run the White House Dux Raymond Sy - Sharepoint for Project Management Jeremy Coates - PHP Northwest and Beyond Magnificent Computing Sections - Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London James Boardwell - Folksy Paul Johnston - Asus eee Chris Heilmann - Yahoo Developer Network Christian Alhert - Minibar and Open Business Belgium by Kris Buytaert Erlang - The CEO's View Innovation, technology and enterpreneurship in Italy
Manchester and the North-West Profile - Deb Bassett Profile - Steve Bowbrick South Africa by Dirk Tolken Profile - Dave Cross Paris by Xavier Cazin
Josette Garcia writes:
A little late but I needed to recover from a very emotional weekend when we had to say goodbye to LugRadio. But after a few pints at the Hog’s Head on Friday night, the team decided that the decision was ridiculous and that the show (the conference) should continue. So see you next year “for another weekend of hangovers, bad bodily odour and terrible hair styles “as described by one of the organizers:
Dan Lynch from the Linux Outlaws podcast talked to O'Reilly GMT at LUG Radio Live over the weekend just gone. He gave me a run down on how they create their podcast from two countries simultaneously in two time zones with nothing but open source software:
Dan - Linux Outlaws from oreillygmt on Vimeo.
Steve Bowbrick appears in this month's Word magazine and on their podcast, talking about Wikipedia. Always worth a listen.
Also worth a listen is The Word's new podcast about the music business:
We're launching another podcast stream called "Backstage" which features occasional conversations with people who know how things operate in different areas of the entertainment industry. Hopefully it gives people a chance to get a better understanding and maybe passes a commute or two. The first one is with Jon Webster of the Music Managers Forum and touches on money, rights, Radiohead, merchandise and a world where record companies no longer rule the earth. Get an extract and subscribe to the podcast for free.
Just short of a quarter of the population of the UK lives in the North of England, and if the current buzz is anything to go by, at least half the inhabitants are coding feverishly night and day. Project Sahara/theNetStart, umpteen iterations of GeekUp, Barcamp Manchester, Barcamp Leeds, Barcamp Sheffield, CSSHackNight: there's a formidable amount of stuff going on.
Keen to show that Britannia Inferior can hold its own in the realm of modern technological innovation, a group of hackers have decided all this activity needs documenting. Fired up by a desire to let the wider world know of the multifarious goings-on in their neck of the woods, Dominic Hodgson, Paul Stanton and Ryan Taylor have set up Northcrew, a news and views hub born to herald the techies of the North. Northcrew are based at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds, but their remit is the towns and cities either side of the M62 and all the motorways, spurs, tributaries, feeder lanes and ring roads that spin off of it. If Rugby means League to you, you're in.
Their stock in trade is news of, by and about the geeks on either side of the Pennines, and their output flits between websites, podcasts and video. The meta-site Northpack collates the blogs of their constituent community, and was coded by Paul and Northcrew co-conspirator Deb Bassett, writer of the recent Scenius article about the Leeds tech scene. If you live in the region and you blog about technology, then pass along your feed to see it filtered in among those of your techcentric compatriots. Northcast is their fortnightly 40-minute podcast hosted by Ryan, Dom and Paul. To give you a flavour of their set-up, have a listen to the first edition of Northcast while you're going about your business:
I find it hard not to think of Northcrew as the tech version of an Indie Rock band - willfully Northern, slyly witty, cheekily charming and, behind it all, seriously driven. There's an eagerness there to do it their own way, an understanding that yes, they'll make mistakes but that's so they can learn from them. These are fine advocates to have on your case, because their enthusiasm is bewildering: they know that their pals are onto something, and they're ready to tell anyone who'll listen. And regardless of their name, there's something universal about them: the specifics are for the region, but it's not hard to extrapolate the global from what they do.
Northcrew are kind enough to kick some content GMT's way, and I'm very pleased that they are - already we've had the video of Christian Heilmann talking about Yahoo! GUI. They have a million ideas for where they can apply their particular talents, so I wouldn't be surprised if Northcrew: The Musical comes to town, or if I hear of a Northcrew Expedition to the Antarctic. Whatever they try, chances are they'll pull it off! And it's a cert that the beating heart of the Northern tech scene will be the driving force behind it.
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
Profoss on 9th & 10th October at the Thon Hotel, Brussels Centre focused on Asterisk and VoIP. The Profoss philosphy is:
Profoss' objective is to spread information about the use of alternative solutions to proprietary and closed products. We focus on organising technical events, each dedicated to one subject, where professional IT people can get the information they need to include the project presented in their daily toolbox.
This time around, Kevin Fleming of Digium spoke about Asterisk, and O'Reilly's Josette Garcia was in the audience to record it. We split the audio into two for ease of download. Part 1:
Get Asterisk: The Future of Telephony 2e with 35% off (plus free p&p if you're in the UK) with the code GMT11 from the UK shopping cart.
Nik Butler writes:
This September 1st & 2nd, PodcampUK, at Birmingham NTI. This is a free event which will be taking the excitement and ideas of Podcamp to the UK. I could not be more enthusiastic about getting there and getting involved. The event is not exclusively podcasting and the podcasting industry, though many taking part will be part of the 'new media', and it's a great opportunity for bloggers (text and video), social networkers and the Facebook vs LinkedIn armies to drop in and take part. In fact anyone enthused and dedicated to Internet media and its distribution should be signing up, turning up and taking part.
The third and final part of our three-part audio interview with Glyn Wintle of the Open Rights Group, which took place at the O'Reilly office in Farnham in Surrey in the UK.
Glyn talks about the ORG's issues with digital rights management, the Gower Report and Software Patents.
Part 2 of our audio interview with Glyn Wintle of the Open Rights Group, (Part 1 appeared on the 27th March). Glyn talks about the ORG's issues with electronic and online voting.
The Open Rights Group are looking for volunteers to oversee the elections on May 3rd in the UK: contact them through the contact page of their website.
The Open Rights Group are a UK-based advocacy group campaigning on our behalf on issues of digital rights. Their aim is:
- To raise awareness in the media of digital rights abuses
- To provide a media clearinghouse, connecting journalists with experts and activists
- To preserve and extend traditional civil liberties in the digital world
- To collaborate with other digital rights and related organisations
- To nurture a community of campaigning volunteers, from grassroots activists to technical and legal experts
We asked volunteer Glyn Wintle to the O'Reilly offices to explain more. Here's the first part of our interview, where Glyn talked about the Open Rights Group's background and how they work, and went on to talk about the worrying trait of children being fingerprinted in UK schools. The second part will follow on the 30th March and the final part on the 3rd April:
O'Reilly will donate 50p to the Bletchley Park Trust Fund for every copy of The Geek Atlas sold in the UK.
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