Agile Development Masters

Thanks to Mark for asking me to contribute to agile development content in the masters at the University Of Manchester earlier this year.

And thanks to Dave, Chiara, Giles, Far, Mandi, Shamim, Sadia, Yuanjing and all the students for making this such an interesting experience for me. Good luck to one and all, and hopes for a happy new year.

And some feedback...

Systems Thinking Sheffield, Inaugural November Meeting

An unusual and interesting mix of technologists and business thinkers. One to watch in the new year.

Graduation Day, Manchester 2010

Snowy Thursday for the graduation (party), cold but good to catch up. Postgraduate diploma in Advanced Computer Science (with distinction) expected by post early new year.

and some more...

Apache Retreat, IBM Hursley

littering dark the winter snow memories of colourful summer

and some more ...

Javascript Leeds december meetup

sam foster to geekup 4:12 PM (16 hours ago)


Time/Date: 6:30 -8:30pm, Wednesday December 8th
Place: Mr Foley's Cask Ale House, 159 The Headrow, Leeds

url: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/7411672/WY/Leeds/Javascript-Leeds-December-Meetup/Mr-Foley39s-Cask-Ale-House/
web: http://leedsjs.org
twitter: @leedsjs

This month (only) we'll meet at Foley's for Javascript-related
chatter. I'm not planning a formal talk, but feel free to bring a
laptop/portable thing if you want to share something. It's been a busy
month in Javascript-land so there's lots to discuss.

I'm not going to cross-post and spam communities I don't know
personally, but if you're on a list with people you think might be
interested, *please forward / tweet / mention* etc.

In the New Year we'll be back to our regular Old Broadcasting House
location, and I'm lining up a couple speakers I think should be of
interest.

Hope to see you there,

/Sam

[Wylug-announce] ShefLUG - December 2010 Meeting

Richard Ibbotson 2:47 PM (20 hours ago)

Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG)
Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend
Saturday 4th December 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
We thought that our December 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/
http://www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/timetables/

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.
http://sheflug.org.uk/indexpage/?page_id=69

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. If you want to know
more about anything else come along and ask questions. We seem
to have a keen and interested band of EeePC and other netbook people
who bring them along to meetings. Also some GNU/Linux and Android
tablets. We can discuss any version of GNU/Linux that you might be
interested in such as Fedora 13 or openSuSE 11.3. Possibly even
Ubuntu 10.10. A quick look around Distrowatch should give you some
idea of what's happening just now...

http://distrowatch.com/

If you want to know about firewalls or related network security we
can answer those sort of questions as well. Have a look here first...
http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/blog/?page_id=174
Always worth talking about. Any version of BSD is also
welcome. Hope we see you at our meeting.

--

Richard

http://www.sheflug.org.uk

OpenCoffee {December}

Imran Ali, Nov 29 (1 day ago)


OpenCoffee {Leeds} Logo

Hey everyone, we wanted to remind you all about December's edition of OpenCoffee Leeds, coming up next week from 10am to 12pm! Our hosts are nti Leeds at Old Broadcasting House and we'd love to have you join us for some Xmas cupcakes - remember these bad boys!
RSVP @ Eventbrite / Facebook
{ 10am-12pm; Tuesday 7th December 2010 }
Following OpenCoffee, Old Broadcasting House's coworking and hot-desking areas will be free to use for all OpenCoffee visitors wishing to work privately, continue the conversations, setup a meeting or just hang out and meet the other residents.

I hope we'll see everyone turnout to share, demo & network! Let us know if you're coming at the Eventbrite or Facebook listings and see you next week!

--
Imran Ali
imran@ali.name ∙ www.imranali.name ∙ @imran

[Fsuk-manchester] MFS Christmas Party. Madlab. Tuesday, *14th* December

Michael Dorrington, Nov 27 (2 days ago)

Please feel free to forward this to those that would welcome it.

December 2010 starts on a Wednesday, causing the 3rd Tuesday of the
Month to be very near Christmas, so we will have our December 2010
meeting a week earlier, on Tuesday, *14th* December.

This meeting is our Christmas Party but we will use the opportunity to
review the year gone and discuss next year.

* Discussion: MFS: Review of year gone. Discussion on next year.
* Participants: Michael Dorrington and other interested parties
(hopefully that's you!).

* Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory). Upstairs.
* Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN.
"(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)"
http://madlab.org.uk/
* Date: Tuesday, *14th* December 2010 (*not* 3rd Tuesday of the month)
* Start time: 19:00
* Finish time: 20:30

Details
-------
The purpose of Manchester Free Software is to promote the Free Software
philosophy. So how did we do in 2010? What can you do in 2011?

Location
--------
The meeting will take place at the usual time (but a week earlier than
normal!), 7pm, at Madlab on Edge Street in the Northern Quarter.
"(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called
Common)". We will be located upstairs. The venue provides wifi.

Transport
---------
Parking: Around the venue there are parking meter bays that become zero
cost after 6pm on Tuesday but get full up. There are paid parking lots
around the venue, the light blue P in this OpenStreetMap centred on
Madlab
.
A lot of them, perhaps all, are are owned by NCP
. If you can't decide otherwise then park in
Manchester Arndale .

Public Transport: Manchester Victoria (MCV) train station, Shudehill
tram station and Manchester Piccadilly bus station are all fairly close
to Madlab, see OpenStreetMap centred on Madlab
.
Manchester Piccadilly (MAN) train station and Manchester Central Coach
Station are not too far either.

Further details at .

More Information
----------------
General information about Manchester Free Software meetings can be found
on our website.

* http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Manchester/Meetings
* http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Manchester/2010-12-14

Lightning Talks
---------------
If you would like five minutes to tell us about something, please
contact us at .


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TEDxLeeds2010

Serendipitous meeting with Imran led me to TEDxLeeds2010. Very cool.

[GeekUp] Open Data Manchester - 30th Nov - Madlab

Julian Tait to geekup 11:15 AM (22 hours ago)

There is an Open Data Manchester meetup at Madlab on Edge Street, Manchester on Tuesday 30th November at 6.30 pm

http://madlab.org.uk/content/open-data-manchester-4/

Come along if you are interested in doing stuff with, or getting hold of Open Public Data. At the moment, with the cold weather coming we are trying to get hold of Gritter information.

There will Christopher Osborne from ITO World will be showing some of the stuff that they have been doing Open Street Map and various bits of transport data and Ric Roberts will talking about Linked Data.

There have been a lot of developments over the last couple of months especially with the mooted Greater Manchester Datastore.

Cheers

Julian

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