May 2013

Selected events in the UK and elsewhere in May

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 events added on 29 May (XMPP, big data) and 30 May (Meteor)

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

1 May - Java - London WC1E

Who: London Java Community
What: Presentation – a talk to give the busy Java/JVM developer an insight into how to analyse and resolve common Garbage Collection problems.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

2 May - PHP - London EC2A

Who: PHP London
What: PHP "PubCon" – regular monthly meeting; this month Stuart Herbert talks about "Storyplayer: bring your user and service stories to life through your tests".
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

2 May - Perl - London W2

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

4-5 May - Hack Day - London SW1Y

Who: Rewired State
What: Follow the Data Hack Day – a two-day hack day for a small number of developers who will be paid to hack global extractives data (including oil and gas industries) with the aim of creating a demand for easily understood data and to showcase the benefits of open, interactive and accessible extractives data.
Cost: Free / Register

7 May - Java - London EC1V

Who: London Java Community
What: Presentation – Akmal B. Chaudhri (a developer advocate at IBM UK) will be talking about "Considerations for using NoSQL technology on your next IT project".
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter and on Meetup

8 May - 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)

9 May - 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

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-£295 / Register

13 May - Ruby - London EC1V

Who: London Ruby User Group
What: Regular monthly meetup – after "DCI with Ruby & Rails" from Dawid Skłodowski, and one other talk (to be determined), the meetup will continue in informal fashion in the pub.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter

14 May - Atlassian - London EC4M

Who: UK Atlassian Community
What: London user group meeting – talks on Jira administration tips as well as hearing from one of the group who has had experience rolling out the Atlassian tools "in a large scale with massive uptake".
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

14 May - Java - London EC1V

Who: London Java Community
What: Presentation – a talk by Nick Zeeb (a core Java developer at LMAX Exchange) about how test-driven design was used to create a lock-free, high performance data structure.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter and on Meetup

16 May - Hardware - London WC1X

Who: OSHUG – Open Source Hardware User Group
What: Event #26: Sensor Networks – talks on Contiki, the open source operating system for the Internet of Things, low power wireless sensors and quick2link, a protocol for distributed sensor/actuator networks.
Cost: Free / Register

18 May - Technology - London

Who: UKUUG and the ODI
What: OpenTech 2013 – an informal, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, experience and democracy.
Cost: £5 / Register

20 May - Groovy & Grails - London

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

22 May - JBoss - London EC1V

Who: JBoss User Group
What: JBoss User Group – this talk, presented by Mark Proctor, Platform Architect at Red Hat, will take users through the new web-based IDE and other new features in Drools 6.0.
Cost: Free / Register at C2B2 and on Meetup

22 May - Ajax - London EC1V

Who: London Ajax User Group
What: User group meeting – Note that for May only, London Ajax will be on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. Dylan Schiemann will talk about Teststack, Dojo 2, and more.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter and on Meetup

29 May - XMPP - London WC2N

Who: XMPP UK
What: Realtime Meetup – Two talks on "Realtime and Go" and "An introduction to the XSF".
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

29 May - Big Data - London

Who: Big Data London
What: 18th Big Data London meetup – With a talk on the "Big Data in Media" theme from Michael Keating, Big Data Project Lead at News International.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

30 May - Meteor - London

Who: Meteor London
What: Show & Tell & Ale – Build a demo, as trivial or fancy as you like. Then meet up and compare notes.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

31 May - Firefox OS - EC2A

Who: Firefox OS meetup group
What: Firefox OS meetup hackday – an all-day and all-night event, the first Firefox OS hack day is being held at the Google campus. Details to be announced.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

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

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.