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Tuesday, 15 February 2011

West Yorkshire Tech

Events blogged for northern technophiles.

Posted by Unknown at 2/15/2011 12:37:00 pm

Labels: agile development, events, networking, technology, yorkshire

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ManLUG
North West England Perl Mongers
North West Ruby User Group
Open Coffee Leeds
ShefLUG
Systems Thinking Sheffield
TEDxLeeds
West Yorkshire LUG
XP Manchester

Some Spaces

FACT, Liverpool
FlyThe.coop
GIST, Sheffield
HackSpace::Leeds
MadLab
Old Broadcasting House, Leeds
The Common Place, Leeds

Some Planets

intertwingly
apache
jroller
document foundation

Some People

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ashley moran
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david tall
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mark van harmelen
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Free Software Foundation
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