March 2013

Selected events in the UK and elsewhere in March

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 20 March (hardware)

Update 2 – New event on 21 March (Ruby)

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

6 March - JBoss - London EC1V

Who: JBoss User Group
What: Talks – "Easy integration with Apache Camel and Fuse IDE" by James Strachan, followed by "Sugar lumps for Camels" by Neil Machell.
Cost: Free / Register at C2B2 and on Meetup

7 March - Perl - London W2

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

7 March - PHP - London EC2A

Who: PHP London
What: PHP "PubCon" – regular monthly meeting with talks; details to be determined.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

7 March - Java - London

Who: London Java Community
What: User group meeting – a special LJC event held at QCon, with Arun Gupta presenting "Java EE 7 Platform: Boosting Productivity and Embracing HTML5".
Cost: Free / Register at QCon London and on Meetup

9 March - Raspberry Pi - Manchester

Who: Raspberry Jam
What: Raspberry Jamboree 2013 – Raspberry Jam is the global user group for anyone with an interest in the Raspberry Pi computer and the aim of the Raspberry Jamboree is to focus on the impact that this low-cost computer is having on education and its potential.
Cost: £10 / Register

11 March - Ruby - London EC1V

Who: London Ruby User Group
What: Regular monthly meetup – after "deliver" from Gerhard Lazu, and "Passing on our skills to the next generation" from Pablo Brasero Moreno, the meetup will continue in informal fashion in the pub.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter

12 March - Ajax - London EC1V

Who: London Ajax User Group
What: User group meeting – This month's topic is to be determined.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter and on Meetup

13 March - XMPP - London WC2N

Who: XMPP UK
What: Realtime Meetup – After the Realtime Conference in Portland and before the Realtime Conference EU in Lyon, come along to the first Realtime Meetup in London.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

13 March - 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)

14-15 March - Open source - Oxford

Who: OSS Watch
What: Open Source Junction 4 – open source hardware meets open source software at a two-day workshop, which will showcase a selection of successful academic and industry projects.
Cost: Free / Register

16 March - Hack Day - London

Who: London Scala Users' Group
What: Hack your Mind with Candy – Another chance to hack with the London Scala community and the wider software development community. Join in with existing projects or build your own.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

18 March - Groovy & Grails - London

Who: London Groovy & Grails User Group
What: LGGUG user group meetup – Long-time Grails user David Dawson will discuss an alternative application architecture to stateless services, one based on command objects.
Cost: Free / Register at SkillsMatter and on Meetup

18 March - Scala - London EC2R

Who: London Scala Users' Group
What: Talk – "David Pollak: The Grand Unification"
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter

19 March - R - London EC3R

Who: LondonR
What: LondonR User Group Meeting – a pre-meeting workshop on “Report Generation in R”, followed by three presentations on "Open Data comes to the NHS", "High-throughput/flow Cytometry Data and how to Load, Transform and Visualise Data and Gate Populations" and "Enterprise grade R on Spotfire".
Cost: Free / Register by email and on Meetup

20 March - Java - London WC1E

Who: London Java Community
What: Meet a Project – Part of the MaP series of events designed to connect open source software projects and potential contributors. It will be in a speed networking style, involving Project Ambassadors giving a pitch of an open source or personal project to a small group of 3-6 developers, then answering questions before moving on to another group.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

20 March - Hardware - London WC1X

Who: Open Source Hardware User Group
What: OSHUG Event #24 Lightning Talks – Talks confirmed so far cover a range of topics: "FUNcube Satellite", "64-core Parallella Prototype", "PCBmodE - a PCB design tool written in Python around JSON, SVG and Inkscape", "Interfacing High-performance Low-cost Embedded Systems with FPGAs", "Flux", and "Open Source Junction 4 Report".
Cost: Free / Register at Eventbrite and share on Lanyrd

21 March - Meteor - London

Who: Meteor London
What: Show & Tell & Ale: EAST – Build a demo, a thingamy, a doodad, a whatever, as trivial or fancy as you like. Then meet up and compare notes. The fancy can show off their wares and the curious can learn a trick or two.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

21 March - 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

21 March - Ruby - Manchester

Who: North West Ruby User Group
What: NWRUG March – in "Bootstrapping for Developers", Tekin Suleyman discusses how developers can take their ideas and turn them into a business.
Cost: Free

26-27 March - Java - London

Who: London Java Community
What: Devoxx – The Java Community Conference with two days of tracks on "Java SE", "Java EE", "Languages on the JVM", "Mobile", "Architecture, Cloud and Security", "Web and Big Data", "Methodology" and "The Future".
Cost: £350 / Register

Coming later this year

4 April - Cucumber - London

Who: Skills Matter and Cucumber
What: CukeUp! – a fast-paced day packed with 30-minute talks on the latest developments, ideas, and best practices in Cucumberworld.
Cost: £175+VAT (early registration to 4 March) £225+VAT (standard price) / Register

6 April - Hack day - London

Who: Rewired State
What: National Hack The Government Day – an opportunity for developers, designers and tech-heads to visualise data in new and interesting ways, or build frameworks that make it easier for future software to tap into. Find ways to improve your Government by coding a better country. Create prototypes of tools, services, applications or web sites, all fuelled by coffee, pizza and sweets.
Cost: Free / Register

18 April - Open Technology - London

Who: GovNet Communications
What: Open Source, Open Standards 2013 – a summit exploring how to take full advantage of open technology solutions across the public sector.
Cost: Unknown / Register

19 April - jQuery - Oxford

Who: jquery.org and White October
What: jQuery UK 2013 – a single-track conference with ten speakers. Three workshops are being run on the day before the conference and a hack day is being held on the day after it.
Cost: £160 (early bird until 31 March) / Register

24 April - Security - London W8

Who: Security B-Sides
What: Security B-Sides London – a community-driven event built for and by information security community members.
Cost: Free / Join the waiting list

12-13 May - Ruby - Crieff, Scotland

Who: Scottish Ruby Conference
What: 2013 Scottish Ruby Conference – The premier European Ruby/Rails Conference, now in its fifth year. Two days of sessions of interest to Rubyists.
Cost: £210-£290 / Register

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: Registration not yet open

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

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.