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Wednesday, 18 March 2009
NWDUG 19th March Meeting - *Venue Change*
The NW Drupal User Group will now meet at Revolution, Deansgate Locks from 6.30pm
Monday, 16 March 2009
25 March North West England Perl Mongers social meeting
This months North West England Perl Mongers social meeting is in
Liverpool at The Ship & Mitre pub (http://www.shipandmitre.co.uk/).
Cask ales and Perl will be consumed from around 20:00, though some
people might be there slightly earlier. Further details along with
directions can be found on the North West England Perl Mongers web
site (http://northwestengland.pm.org/meetings/003.html).
Remember, North West England Perl Mongers covers the largest
geographical area for any Perl Mongers group in the world! If you
want us to bring the camel and penguin to your area and you can
organise a venue, please do let me know. We're looking to organise
next months technical talks in the Manchester area and would
appreciate any assistance in finding a suitable venue (projector, bar
or close proximity to, room for twenty people?).
The North West England Perl Mongers is a group of open source and Perl
professionals and enthusiasts in Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside and
the Western parts of Greater Manchester. Meeting once a month for
alternating technical and social reasons, we welcome all comers
interested in Perl or not. For more information about nwe.pm, see our
website at http://northwestengland.pm.org/ Feel free to come, have a
drink and tell us why you don't like Perl!
Liverpool at The Ship & Mitre pub (http://www.shipandmitre.co.uk/).
Cask ales and Perl will be consumed from around 20:00, though some
people might be there slightly earlier. Further details along with
directions can be found on the North West England Perl Mongers web
site (http://northwestengland.pm.org/meetings/003.html).
Remember, North West England Perl Mongers covers the largest
geographical area for any Perl Mongers group in the world! If you
want us to bring the camel and penguin to your area and you can
organise a venue, please do let me know. We're looking to organise
next months technical talks in the Manchester area and would
appreciate any assistance in finding a suitable venue (projector, bar
or close proximity to, room for twenty people?).
The North West England Perl Mongers is a group of open source and Perl
professionals and enthusiasts in Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside and
the Western parts of Greater Manchester. Meeting once a month for
alternating technical and social reasons, we welcome all comers
interested in Perl or not. For more information about nwe.pm, see our
website at http://northwestengland.pm.org/ Feel free to come, have a
drink and tell us why you don't like Perl!
Sunday, 15 March 2009
Dragon's Lair II - 26th March at UMIC, Mancheste
Only 2 weeks left to our next Dragon's Lair with 34 seats already sold
with number of Dragons and pitching companies confirmed. Now is the
time to secure your ticket before the last minute mad-rush starts.
Since the beginning of the year, 58,985 companies have been registered
in the UK with the North West reporting the highest number of
registrations (6,096) outside London. Whilst this is slightly lower
than the same period of last year, these facts proves that
entrepreurship is very much live in the North of England. Dragon's
Lair is your chance to rub shoulders with northern tech entrepreneurs
and their friends.
I am also thrilled to welcome Nic Brisbourne of DFJ Esprit which has
$6 billion under management. This is Nic's second visit - a clear sign
of London based VC's desire to engage and support Northern talent. Nic
will be joined by our own Carl Allen (£200m of funding through 3000
investing Non Executive Directors), Scott Fletcher (Angel Investor and
CEO of ANS Group) and Simon Howship (first time Angel Investor and
Senior Executive of Freeserve, and ex-CEO of Callserve Communicaions
and Vyke Communications plc). We are waiting for confirmation from
number of potential Dragons to increase the overall number to six
Dragons.
Are you a tech startup looking for funding? Are you an Angel Investor
or Venture Capitalist looking for investment opportunities? Are you
interested in attending a lively event on up to 8 tech startups
pitching to a panel of Dragons. Whatever your interest is, I am happy
to announce the return of Dragon's Lair to Central Manchester on 26th March 2009 at UMIC after the successful
pilot in December 2008. The event runs from 5:30pm to 9pm followed
by networking at a local bar till early hours.
1. Sponsor this prestigious event - sponsorship starts from £500
onwards
2. Be a Dragon (up to 2 slots vacant) - Business Angels and Venture
Capitalists sought
3. Be a pitching company (up to 6 slots vacant)
Pitching companies confirmed include PostDox, an e-invoicing startup
and RecycleLocal, a startup with recycling theme. If you wish to grab
the remaining pitching slots, act now. Crains Manchester Business is
expected to run a story on the pitching companies on 16th March. We
are keen to hear from startups looking for second round of funding, as
well as those who have a strong management team or proven revenue
streams.
with number of Dragons and pitching companies confirmed. Now is the
time to secure your ticket before the last minute mad-rush starts.
Since the beginning of the year, 58,985 companies have been registered
in the UK with the North West reporting the highest number of
registrations (6,096) outside London. Whilst this is slightly lower
than the same period of last year, these facts proves that
entrepreurship is very much live in the North of England. Dragon's
Lair is your chance to rub shoulders with northern tech entrepreneurs
and their friends.
I am also thrilled to welcome Nic Brisbourne of DFJ Esprit which has
$6 billion under management. This is Nic's second visit - a clear sign
of London based VC's desire to engage and support Northern talent. Nic
will be joined by our own Carl Allen (£200m of funding through 3000
investing Non Executive Directors), Scott Fletcher (Angel Investor and
CEO of ANS Group) and Simon Howship (first time Angel Investor and
Senior Executive of Freeserve, and ex-CEO of Callserve Communicaions
and Vyke Communications plc). We are waiting for confirmation from
number of potential Dragons to increase the overall number to six
Dragons.
Are you a tech startup looking for funding? Are you an Angel Investor
or Venture Capitalist looking for investment opportunities? Are you
interested in attending a lively event on up to 8 tech startups
pitching to a panel of Dragons. Whatever your interest is, I am happy
to announce the return of Dragon's Lair to Central Manchester on 26th March 2009 at UMIC after the successful
pilot in December 2008. The event runs from 5:30pm to 9pm followed
by networking at a local bar till early hours.
Number of Opportunities exists
1. Sponsor this prestigious event - sponsorship starts from £500
onwards
2. Be a Dragon (up to 2 slots vacant) - Business Angels and Venture
Capitalists sought
3. Be a pitching company (up to 6 slots vacant)
Pitching companies confirmed include PostDox, an e-invoicing startup
and RecycleLocal, a startup with recycling theme. If you wish to grab
the remaining pitching slots, act now. Crains Manchester Business is
expected to run a story on the pitching companies on 16th March. We
are keen to hear from startups looking for second round of funding, as
well as those who have a strong management team or proven revenue
streams.
27-29 March 2009 Oekonux free software conference
Project Oekonux researches the economical, political and social forms of Free Software and similar forms of production we collectively call peer production. In Project Oekonux, different people with different reasons and different approaches get together to build something new. A lot of participants want to know, whether and if so, how, the peer production can serve as a basis for a new society.
For the 4th Oekonux Conference Project Oekonux cooperates with the P2P Foundation. The Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives researches, documents and promotes P2P practices in every domain of social life. It's a global cyber-collective and aims to be a knowledge and internetworking platform for open/free, participatory, and commons-oriented initiatives on a global scale.
http://www.oekonux-conference.org/invitation/invitation.html
31st March OpenCoffee Manchester
OpenCoffee Manchester - a monthly meet-up
for entrepreneurs, investors, inventors, designers, developers,
academics and bloggers.
Taking place on the last Tuesday of each month from 10am - 12pm at
Urbis, OpenCoffee Manchester is an informal forum for collaboration,
networking and good coffee amongst entrepreneurs and start-ups.
The re-launch event is on Tuesday 31st March 2009. Feel free to come
and surf on the free-wireless.
You can RSVP for the event via Facebook -
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=67979528896&ref=ts
for entrepreneurs, investors, inventors, designers, developers,
academics and bloggers.
Taking place on the last Tuesday of each month from 10am - 12pm at
Urbis, OpenCoffee Manchester is an informal forum for collaboration,
networking and good coffee amongst entrepreneurs and start-ups.
The re-launch event is on Tuesday 31st March 2009. Feel free to come
and surf on the free-wireless.
You can RSVP for the event via Facebook -
http://www.facebook.com/home.
Thursday, 12 March 2009
Saturday 14th March 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG)
Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG)
Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend
Saturday 14th March 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
For the past two years we have held meetings at Starbucks coffee shop
at Western Bank next to the University. We thought that our February
meeting might go down well at the Walkley Cottage. The address is...
Walkley Cottage Inn
46 Bole Hill Rd
Sheffield, S6 5DD
0114 234 4968
http://www.walkleycottage.co.uk/
If you don't have a car then you might like to know that the No: 94
and 95 buses run from High Street and Church Street (across from the
Cathedral) through the city centre to the pub. This is a frequent bus
service every 10 to 15 minutes during the day. Call 01709 515151 for
bus information. Use Google maps if you don't know where the Walkley
Cottage is. Tea and coffee is available. There is a good selection of
beers which are well looked after. Look out for someone sitting next
to an Hewlett-Packard penguin with a laptop in front of him. The
first person who can crack the Wi-Fi system and make it work will
receive a pint of beer.
http://www.sheflug.org.uk/meeting.html
The topic of the meeting will be a general discussion or we can fix
some hardware or software. If you need some help with that we can
most likely point you in the right direction. Cebit and Linux Tag are
probably the next most important public events on the calendar. We
can talk about those if anyone wants to know more. If you want to
know more about anything else come along and ask questions. We seem
to have a growing band of EeePC people who bring them along to
meetings. Also, it's been ten years this month since we started ! A
good time to go out for dinner and have a few drinks. With this in
mind we hope to have a dinner on a Saturday night in May somewhere in
Sheffield. More on this later. But, please do come along and help
us to celebrate at the March meeting.
Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend
Saturday 14th March 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
For the past two years we have held meetings at Starbucks coffee shop
at Western Bank next to the University. We thought that our February
meeting might go down well at the Walkley Cottage. The address is...
Walkley Cottage Inn
46 Bole Hill Rd
Sheffield, S6 5DD
0114 234 4968
http://www.walkleycottage.co.
If you don't have a car then you might like to know that the No: 94
and 95 buses run from High Street and Church Street (across from the
Cathedral) through the city centre to the pub. This is a frequent bus
service every 10 to 15 minutes during the day. Call 01709 515151 for
bus information. Use Google maps if you don't know where the Walkley
Cottage is. Tea and coffee is available. There is a good selection of
beers which are well looked after. Look out for someone sitting next
to an Hewlett-Packard penguin with a laptop in front of him. The
first person who can crack the Wi-Fi system and make it work will
receive a pint of beer.
http://www.sheflug.org.uk/
The topic of the meeting will be a general discussion or we can fix
some hardware or software. If you need some help with that we can
most likely point you in the right direction. Cebit and Linux Tag are
probably the next most important public events on the calendar. We
can talk about those if anyone wants to know more. If you want to
know more about anything else come along and ask questions. We seem
to have a growing band of EeePC people who bring them along to
meetings. Also, it's been ten years this month since we started ! A
good time to go out for dinner and have a few drinks. With this in
mind we hope to have a dinner on a Saturday night in May somewhere in
Sheffield. More on this later. But, please do come along and help
us to celebrate at the March meeting.
Friday 27th March 5pm - 9pm Electric Works Opening party
Opening party of
Electric Works on
Friday 27th March 5pm - 9pm
The rumours are true: the all new Electric Works in Sheffield is the
UK's first office with its own custom made Helter Skelter for workers,
and you are invited to be one of the first to slide down it.
The event will include a one-off sky bar with views over the city, a
Wii bowling competition, various installations and an opportunity to
have a tour around the building.
Electric Works is a leading edge workspace providing grow-on space for
digital and creative businesses as well as drop-in and short-stay
facilities for freelancers and sole traders. Places are limited so
please RSVP as soon as possible (see details below)
Please join us for a preview:
Where
electricworks, Sheffield Digital Campus, Sheffield,
two minutes walk from the mainline railway station.
When
5pm-9pm Friday 27 March
See http://www.electric-works.net/contact for map.
RSVP
openingparty@electric-works.net
PS Did we mention you can ride on the helter skelter?!
www.electric-works.net
Electric Works on
Friday 27th March 5pm - 9pm
The rumours are true: the all new Electric Works in Sheffield is the
UK's first office with its own custom made Helter Skelter for workers,
and you are invited to be one of the first to slide down it.
The event will include a one-off sky bar with views over the city, a
Wii bowling competition, various installations and an opportunity to
have a tour around the building.
Electric Works is a leading edge workspace providing grow-on space for
digital and creative businesses as well as drop-in and short-stay
facilities for freelancers and sole traders. Places are limited so
please RSVP as soon as possible (see details below)
Please join us for a preview:
Where
electricworks, Sheffield Digital Campus, Sheffield,
two minutes walk from the mainline railway station.
When
5pm-9pm Friday 27 March
See http://www.electric-works.net/
RSVP
openingparty@electric-works.
PS Did we mention you can ride on the helter skelter?!
www.electric-works.net
Monday, 9 March 2009
16th March, Project management in your business - An introduction to PRINCE2 and Agile
Project management in your business - An introduction to PRINCE2 and Agile
Monday 16th March 2009, 6.00pm - 8.00pm
nti Leeds, Old Broadcasting House
Are you considering implementing project management methods in your business? Do you want to be able to more rigorously analyse the business case for new projects, and increase your profitability and effectiveness? Are you involved with software development?
Come along to nti, Old Broadcasting House on 16th March at 6pm and find out from our expert trainers the key features of PRINCE2 and Agile methods. The evening takes the form of a panel discussion. Panel members include Marian Watson, the nti’s PRINCE2 trainer, and Mark Stringer from Agile Lab. Marian and Mark will each give an overview of the key features and benefits of PRINCE2 and Agile methods.
Our aim is to provide you with the information to help you consider what will work for you, as well as giving you an understanding of two very different, and complimentary approaches to project management.
PRINCE2 has become the de-facto standard for project management, not just in the UK, but in many countries throughout the world. Each week 2000 people worldwide take the PRINCE2 Practitioner examination
Agile methods are a group of techniques which make it easier to deliver IT and web-based projects in environments of uncertainty and constant change
Caroline Skipsey, Commercial Director at Brahm will take part in the panel, sharing her experiences of using PRINCE2. Caroline has worked on television and film productions both here and in the states. In her current role she oversees the digital project management team at Brahm. The team are responsible for resource planning, budget monitoring and process management across all digital clients
Matt Green is Chief Technology Officer and Company Director at Rockshore, Sheffield. He has over 10 years experience of leadership, technical design, development and consultancy on large scale enterprise applications, networks and communication systems. Rockshore use agile development techniques to build real-time event processing software in the travel and mobile communications sectors. He will take part in the panel, sharing his experiences of Agile
This event is free to attend to companies and individuals based within the Yorkshire region.
To register for this event please click here
Friday, 6 March 2009
9th March: WYLUG meeting - Talk on HTML5 by Dave Fisher
This month Dave Fisher is going to be giving a talk on HTML5.
HTML 5 - What's New, Why It Matters, And What You Can Do With It
================================================================
1 New elements and attributes
2 Modified elements and attributes
3 Deprecated elements and attributes
4 Images and multimedia elements
* figure, audio, video and embed
5 Scripting
* Canvas and GUI scripting
* More support for web-apps
* Detailed DOM spec
6 Forms
* New controls
* Scripting support
7 Prescriptive browser behaviour
* Error handling, including invalid content
* Non-XML serialisation
* Rendering consistency
Dave's last talk was superb and I am glad he has agreed to come back so soon to do another.
The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.
Location:
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN
More location details on the OBH contact page (
http://www.oldbroadcastinghouse.com/contact/
or on Open Street Map
(http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.80565lon=-1.5487&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF
HTML 5 - What's New, Why It Matters, And What You Can Do With It
================================================================
1 New elements and attributes
2 Modified elements and attributes
3 Deprecated elements and attributes
4 Images and multimedia elements
* figure, audio, video and embed
5 Scripting
* Canvas and GUI scripting
* More support for web-apps
* Detailed DOM spec
6 Forms
* New controls
* Scripting support
7 Prescriptive browser behaviour
* Error handling, including invalid content
* Non-XML serialisation
* Rendering consistency
Dave's last talk was superb and I am glad he has agreed to come back so soon to do another.
The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.
Location:
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN
More location details on the OBH contact page (
http://www.oldbroadcastinghouse.com/contact/
or on Open Street Map
(http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.80565lon=-1.5487&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF
Sunday, 1 March 2009
19th March NWRUG - Search in your Rails app
Search is an essential part of most web applications and building up
‘like’ clauses in code just doesn’t cut it. This month we have three
talks on three different search daemons so you have the knowledge to
go away and add quality search to your app.
This month we have sponsorship from Brightbox so there will be free
Pizza, Beer and soft drinks after the talks, and maybe some T-Shirts
and stickers too.
Schedule
• 6:30pm :: Welcome & Registration
• 7:00pm :: Talks on Sphinx, Solr & Ferret by Will Jessop, Asa Calow
& John Leach
• 7:45pm :: Pizzas/Beer/Soft-drinks provided by Brightbox
• 8:30pm :: Drinks at the The Paramount
If you want more information email nwrug@willj.net or call Will
Sign Up
If you would like to attend this event please email me at nwrug@willj.net
as I really need to know the numbers so I can order the right amount
of food and drink. You can also sign up on the Upcoming event page
(linked to from the site) if you want, but email me as-well.
Location
This meeting is being held at our regular venue, the MDDA offices on
Portland Street in central Manchester.
‘like’ clauses in code just doesn’t cut it. This month we have three
talks on three different search daemons so you have the knowledge to
go away and add quality search to your app.
This month we have sponsorship from Brightbox so there will be free
Pizza, Beer and soft drinks after the talks, and maybe some T-Shirts
and stickers too.
Schedule
• 6:30pm :: Welcome & Registration
• 7:00pm :: Talks on Sphinx, Solr & Ferret by Will Jessop, Asa Calow
& John Leach
• 7:45pm :: Pizzas/Beer/Soft-drinks provided by Brightbox
• 8:30pm :: Drinks at the The Paramount
If you want more information email nwrug@willj.net or call Will
Sign Up
If you would like to attend this event please email me at nwrug@willj.net
as I really need to know the numbers so I can order the right amount
of food and drink. You can also sign up on the Upcoming event page
(linked to from the site) if you want, but email me as-well.
Location
This meeting is being held at our regular venue, the MDDA offices on
Portland Street in central Manchester.
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