July 2013

Selected events in the UK and elsewhere in July

The H Community Calendar presents details of the coming month's events – along with advance notification of larger events later in the year – in various open source, development, Linux, Unix and other communities, from multi-day conferences to user group get-togethers.

If you are an event organiser, let The H know about your event by sending us a mail at [email protected], or if you're on Twitter, add the #thehcc tag to your tweeted announcement.

Update - new event on 12 July (PostgreSQL).

Update 2 - new events on 19 July (OpenStack), 25 July (Perl) and 16-17 October (Apache Cassandra).

Note: Most events listed take place in the evening. Check times and locations before travelling.

3 July - Java - London WC1H

Who: London Java Community
What: A Tourist's Guide to Clojure for Java Programmers – the first in a series of events being run in collaboration with the London Clojurians on Clojure for Java Programmers.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

4 July - Perl - London E1

Who: London Perl Mongers
What: London.pm Social – regular monthly social meeting.
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)

4 July - PHP - London EC2A

Who: PHP London
What: PHP meeting – regular monthly meeting with a talk by Rasmus Lerdorf on "PHP in 2013".
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

6 July - Maker Faire - London SE1

Who: Maker Faire
What: Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire – a day where makers of all types can show off their projects, share what they have learned and even give attendees the opportunity to get some hands-on experience.
Cost: Free / Register

9 July - Atlassian - London W1S

Who: UK Atlassian Community
What: London user group meeting – Regular monthly user group meeting with a talk on Jira 6 from Mark McCormack with a live walkthrough of some of the new features.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

9 July - Ajax - London EC1V

Who: London Ajax User Group
What: User group meeting – regular monthly meetup with talks on "Wireframes to Widgets" by Tom Dye and "Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools" by Andi Smith.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter and on Meetup

10 July - Linux - Reading

Who: Silicon Corridor Linux User Group
What: A regular social evening for Linux users in the Reading area.
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)

10 July - Hacker News - London EC1V

Who: Hacker News
What: Hacker News meetup – Adam Hupp of Facebook will talk about some of the engineering issues they face and how they solve them at scale.
Cost: £6.00 / Register on Meetup

10 July - JBoss - London EC1V

Who: JBoss User Group
What: JBoss User Group – Rob Davies, technical director for Fuse engineering at Red Hat, will present a session on "Connecting Applications Everywhere with JBoss A-MQ".
Cost: Free / Register on C2B2 and Meetup

10 July - Java - London E1

Who: London Java Community
What: Developing on the Google Cloud Platform with Java – evening of talks about developing on the Google Cloud Platform with Java.
Cost: Free / Register on Eventbrite and on Meetup

12 July - PostgreSQL - Milton Keynes

Who: PostgreSQL User Group
What: PGDay UK – the main event for the UK PostgreSQL database community with speakers from various companies across the UK.
Cost: £99 / Register

15 July - Perl - London SW1X

Who: London Perl Mongers
What: London.pm Social – emergency social meeting as Randal Schwartz is in town.
Cost: Free (no registration necessary)

15 July - Groovy & Grails - London

Who: London Groovy & Grails User Group
What: LGGUG user group meetup – details to be announced.
Cost: Free / Register at SkillsMatter and on Meetup

15 July - Ruby - London EC1V

Who: London Ruby User Group
What: Regular monthly meetup – after "The reluctant Chef" from Simon Coffey, and "Building and maintaining a Ruby team during the Rails crisis of 2013" from Louis Goff-Beardsley, the meetup will continue in informal fashion in the pub.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter

16 July - R - London EC3R

Who: LondonR
What: LondonR User Group Meeting – an afternoon tutorial demonstrating how to connect R and C++ with Rcpp will be followed by the evening user group meeting with three talks on "Using Survival Analysis for Marketing Attribution", "Creating and Building Applications in R" and "BigR Data".
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

18 July - Scala - London EC2R

Who: London Scala Users' Group
What: LSug Scala coding dojo – a regular coding dojo session run on the third Thursday of every month.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

18-19 July - Public sector - Oxford

Who: OSS Watch
What: Open Source Junction 5 – this two-day workshop is focused on open source software and the public sector and will showcase various successful projects.
Cost: Free for public sector employees, £75 (one-day ticket), £150 (two-day ticket) / Register

19 July - OpenStack - London SE1^NEW

Who: London OpenStack Meetup
What: Birthday party – it's OpenStack's 3rd birthday! Come celebrate in the time-honoured tradition of drinking whilst talking technical.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

25 July - Perl - London EC2M^NEW

Who: London Perl Mongers
What: London.pm Technical meeting – with four talks on "Cool things I've been playing with", "App::highlight", "Syncing social media and feeds with IMAP" and "Monitoring Your Code with Log4perl".
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

27 July - Unconference - Blackpool

Who: Barcamp Blackpool
What: Barcamp Blackpool 2013 – an annual unconference where the wide variety of talks are organised on the day.
Cost: Join the waitlist

Coming later this year

6-8 September - OpenStreetMap - Birmingham

Who: OpenStreetMap Foundation
What: State of the Map 2013 – the 7th edition of the official OpenStreetMap conference State of the Map (SotM).
Cost: £60 / £80 (Community early bird / standard), £240 / £320 (Regular early bird / standard) / Register

16-17 October - Apache Cassandra - London^NEW

Who: DataStax
What: Apache Cassandra Summit Europe 2013 – a two-day event with a technical workshop on the first day giving attendees the opportunity to become officially certified as a DataStax Certified Cassandra Developer and a two-track conference on the second day.
Cost: £130 (conference only early bird), £260 (workshop + conference early bird) / Register

21-23 October - Linux - Edinburgh

Who: The Linux Foundation
What: LinuxCon Europe 2013 – The conference will bring together community developers, system administrators, business executives and operations experts, and deliver high-quality speaking talent, innovative program content, and plenty of opportunities to connect with peers.
Cost: $475 (early registration to 14 July) / Register

24-25 October - Automotive - Edinburgh

Who: The Linux Foundation
What: Automotive Linux Summit Fall 2013 – The summit will bring together automotive systems engineers, Linux experts, R&D managers, business executives, open-source licensing and compliance specialists and community developers, and deliver high-quality speaking talent, innovative program content, and plenty of opportunities to connect with peers.
Cost: $300 (early registration to 14 July) / Register

28-30 October - Java - London

Who: JAX London
What: JAX London 2013 – a three-day conference built on Enterprise and Core Java topics that also reflects the industry trends of big data, cloud services, mobile and more.
Cost: £349+VAT (early bird workshop day), £499+VAT (early bird conference ticket), £649+VAT (early bird workshop & conference) / Register

If you are an event organiser, let The H know about your event by sending us a mail at [email protected], or if you're on Twitter, add the #thehcc tag to your tweeted announcement.