Wednesday, 13 May 2009

13th May Agile Yorkshire - Ralph Williams: Exploratory Testing

Details

In this session, Ralph will provide an overview of some techniques that bring Agility into the world of testing. (The world of testing is a strange place: regarded by most people as a nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there, it is an unmapped wilderness where the waterfall methodology still roams unfettered.)

The main focus will be on one such technique, Exploratory Testing. It is defined by many as "simultaneous learning, test design and test execution", but Ralph will attempt to be more helpful. After the presentation many of you will claim this is what you have been doing all along, but now it has a fancy name you can use it without shame and companies can sell you high-priced consultancy in it.

Speaker

Ralph Williams is a Test Consultant at the Yorkshire Building Society, based in Bradford. The Society develops much of the application software used throughout its 140 branches and offices, and Ralph is responsible for managing the testing for some of these systems. He has previously worked in various management, testing and development roles at Erudine, Wanadoo and British Telecom, and specialises in Agile Testing and chocolate.

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

4th June Manchester Girl Geek Dinner 3

When:
4th June 2009 at 7pm

Where:
Old Abbey Inn
Manchester Science Park
61 Pencroft Way
Manchester, Manchester M15 6AY
United Kingdom

What:
Girl Geek Dinners are organised all over the world. They are great fun
and provide a welcoming atmosphere for women to talk about technology
in an informal environment. A Girl Geek is simply a female with a
strong interest and passion in a subject (in this case Science,
Engineering and Technology). You don't have to work in a technical
role to come along. Just be prepared to enjoy some great food, drinks,
atmosphere and to meet some fantastic, engaging and like-minded
ladies!

Talks:
We have a talk by Lesley Allger! Come and listen to the experiences of
an older girl geek who has worked for nearly 30 years in BAE SYSTEMS.
Give her some inspiration to make the final 15 years as exciting and
rewarding!
I'm also pleased to welcome Dominic Hodgson from North Hub who will be
introducing us to all the technical events in the north.

Who can attend?
Any lady who wants to come along to a great evening of food, drinks,
fab atmosphere and the chance to socialise with other inspirational
ladies! Even though the event is for women, men are very welcome to
come along, as long as they are invited by a girl geek! This is to try
and keep the numbers even.

Details:
Sponsored by BAE Systems, there is a charge of £5 which includes a
drink and a BBQ at the lovely Old Abbey Inn in Manchester's Science
Park (http://eweri.com/Jm0 ). There's plenty of
free parking around the venue and it's not far from Oxford Road (taxis
will cost you a few quid or there's lots of buses to drop you off
outside the University or Infirmary).

I hope with this event we can introduce you to some more interesting
events and people in the area.

Tickets are available for £5 here:http://manchesterggd.eventbrite.com/

For more information visit the
websitewww.manchestergirlgeekdinners.co.uk/
follow us on twitter @mancggd, read our blog:http://
mancggd.wordpress.com

Thursday, 7 May 2009

May 12th GeekUp Manchester

Details for next Tuesday's GeekUp Manchester: http://geekup.org/events/130/

When
6:00 PM Tuesday May 12th, 2009

Where
Revolution Deansgate, Deansgate Locks, Whitworth St, Manchester M1 5LH

Google Map: http://is.gd/2cLX
Extended Google Map: http://is.gd/2cL0

Description
We have a private area (The Lounge) reserved at the rear right of the
venue, just ask at the bar and they'll direct you.

Attending?
Upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2415589/

Wednesday, 6 May 2009

28th May UKNOF13

http://www.uknof.org.uk/

Registration is now open for our next
meeting, UKNOF13, which will be held in Sheffield on Thursday 28th
May.

This is being sponsored by regional development agency
Yorkshire Forward ,
at the Electric Works .

We are still finalizing the agenda, but it will include talks
on the IWF/Wikipedia incident, DNSSEC, Quagga, and Internet growth
data.
For the regular Internet history slot, we are very pleased to confirm
Postel award winner Daniel Karrenberg will be speaking.

We still have room for some additional presentations, please let the
PC know ASAP (most of us will be approachable at the RIPE meeting next
week) if you'd like to give or suggest one.

If you are planning to attend, please can you register for the meeting
as early as possible at:

http://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof13/regform.php

We have arranged discounted accommodation with the nearby Mercure,
Novotel, and Best Western hotels for the nights before and after the
meeting, if you wish to take advantage of this they need to be
booked by phone by the 11th May, using the code "2705UKN".

Note that we are planning connectivity at and a webcast from the event
once again. As we had nearly as many people attending by webcast last
time as in person, for the first time we are asking remote attendees
to
also register. This carries no obligation other than to help us get a
handle on numbers, please check the relevant "webcast" box on the
registration form.

We are also still open to a second sponsor for this meeting and/or
any social event afterwards - please get in touch if your organisation
is interested in contributing.

Girl Geek Dinner {Leeds}

Full details

Part of this month's LSx - The Leeds Web Festival (http://lsx.dotnorth.org), the evening's speakers will include:
* Reshma Sohoni, CEO of Seedcamp (http://www.seedcamp.com) a pan-European seed fund for technology entrepreneurs. Reshma's previous roles included venture investments at 3i and Softbank, as well as Vodafone's commercial strategy team.

* Jennifer O'Grady, founder of Democracy PR (http://www.democracypr.com/), a new agency created to blend traditional PR skills with social media opportunities. Jen will be speaking about the personal PR skills needed to manage your own personal profile online,

For just £15, you can enjoy some drinks, nibbles and the chance to hang out with the city's brightest creatives, technologists, programmers, entrepreneurs, marketeers, PR professionals and creative/digital girls - oh, and some boys too :)

8th May, GeekUp East Coast

Full details

What is GeekUp?

GeekUp is a community of web designers, web developers, and other tech-minded folk from the UK. It's a grassroots knowledge sharing and networking social for folks involved or interested in the web, design and technology industry. Monthly events take place in Chester, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston and Sheffield.

GeekUp East Coast was created so that the Creative Types, Developers and Tech folks on the East side of the country had somewhere to get together without braving the Pennines! This is the Inaugural Event, and if it's successful, we'll do it some more.

Who can attend GeekUp? While the focus for GeekUp is predominately web related anybody involved in the technology / design industry is more than welcome to attend a GeekUp. The events are free, we just ask that you buy your own beer.

7th May, Yorkshire Digital Awards

Full details

Are you bowled over by some of the talent you have seen in the Yorkshire digital and creative sector? Perhaps you work in the sector itself, and feel the project you are working on at the moment, or the piece of technology you are developing, really needs wider attention. Even if you don't work directly in the industry, perhaps you have seen a mind-blowing website that establishes a new benchmark in quality, or a new digital equipment you think could really make a difference to our lives or the way we do business.

Whatever your situation, if you wonder why so many companies still seem to think they have to go to London for creative work done when so much excellent work goes on up here, then the Insider Yorkshire Digital Awards are for you. Whether you are in the industry or just an interested observer, we want to hear from you.

This successful awards programme, now in its tenth year, acknowledges and promotes digital companies in Yorkshire and the Humber who are really pushing the bar in creativity and technological prowess. There are clearly benefits to winnng too. Huddersfield-based Liquid Accounts, for example, won the Best Application of Internet Technology category in 2008.

May 13th, Agile Yorkshire Ralph Williams: Exploratory Testing

In this session, Ralph will provide an overview of some techniques that bring Agility into the world of testing. (The world of testing is a strange place: regarded by most people as a nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there, it is an unmapped wilderness where the waterfall methodology still roams unfettered.)

The main focus will be on one such technique, Exploratory Testing. It is defined by many as "simultaneous learning, test design and test execution", but Ralph will attempt to be more helpful. After the presentation many of you will claim this is what you have been doing all along, but now it has a fancy name you can use it without shame and companies can sell you high-priced consultancy in it.
Speaker
Ralph Williams is a Test Consultant at the Yorkshire Building Society, based in Bradford. The Society develops much of the application software used throughout its 140 branches and offices, and Ralph is responsible for managing the testing for some of these systems. He has previously worked in various management, testing and development roles at Erudine, Wanadoo and British Telecom, and specialises in Agile Testing and chocolate.

Venue: Victoria Hotel, Central Leeds
Date/Time: Wednesday, 13th May, 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start.
More details: http://www.agileyorkshire.org/

Anyone welcome.

4th June Manchester Girl Geek Dinner

When:
4th June 2009 at 7pm

Where:
Old Abbey Inn
Manchester Science Park
61 Pencroft Way
Manchester, Manchester M15 6AY
United Kingdom

What:
The event is sponsored by BAE Systems, however to cover costs there is
a charge of £5 for tickets, which include a drink and a BBQ.
We have a talk by Lesley Allger, an employee at BAE Systems from 1980
working in all areas including manufacturing, software and finance.
She will be sharing her exciting career with us.
I'm also pleased to welcome Dominic Hodgson from North Hub (http://
www.northhub.co.uk/) who will be introducing us to all the technical
events in the north.

30th-31st May BarCamp Leeds

BarCamp Leeds is the city's third 'unconference', a event where the folks that attend create the programme of sessions themselves. BarCamps are open, participatory, democratic, 'workshop' events; the organisers and sponsors simply provide wireless broadband, a venue, beverages and food! The attendees provide the content - and the buzz :)

BarCamps are a great opportunity to network, lean and share...plus generally a lotta fun too. We're hoping our stack of Nintendo Wiis will break the ice and we know Old Broadcasting House will be a fun and inspiring venue.

We'd love for you to come - if you're a creative, an artist, a writer, blogger, technologist, or a developer, geek, entrepreneur, academic researcher, gamer or investor please join us. If you're just curious and interested in digital culture or social media - we'd love to meet you too :)

Come and demo, talk, share or just hang out!

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