November 2012

Selected events in the UK and elsewhere in November

The H Community Calendar presents the coming month's events 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.

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

1 November - PHP - London EC2A

Who: PHP London
What: PHP "PubCon" – regular monthly social meeting
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

1 November - Women in technology - London EC2A

Who: London Java Community
What: Women in technology – "The Problem With Women: A Technical Approach", Trisha Gee looks at why the attempts to address the gender balance have failed. The session is interactive and open to all.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

3-4 November - Internet of Things - Liverpool

Who: DoES Liverpool
What: Internet of Things Howduino – a weekend of exploring, experimenting, collaborating and learning about the Internet of Things.
Cost: Free / Register

7-9 November - oVirt - Barcelona, Spain

Who: oVirt Project
What: oVirt Workshop – a three day workshop, co-located with KVM Forum 2012 at LinuxCon Europe, where attendees can find out about the project's technical background and direction, meet the developers behind oVirt, and learn from hands-on labs and demos.
Cost: $100 (student), $450 (standard), first 200 free / Register

8 November - Perl - London

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

9-11 November - Mozilla - London SE10

Who: Mozilla
What: 2012 Mozilla Festival – This year's theme is "Making, Freedom and the Web". A long weekend with five goals: to make, learn, imagine, design and fuel. More details are available on the wiki.
Cost: £40 (regular ticket), £3 (youth ticket) / Register

12 November - Ruby - London EC1V

Who: London Ruby User Group
What: Regular monthly meetup – after "An introduction to Rubymotion: Writing iOS apps with Ruby" from Andrew Nesbitt and "Background processing in Ruby (and Rails)" from Khash Sajadi, the meetup will continue in informal fashion in the pub.
Cost: Free / Register

13 November - Ajax - London EC1V

Who: London Ajax User Group
What: User group meeting – November's topic is performance, with a talk on "Performance in JavaScript tips and tricks" from Jonathan Fielding. Details of the second talk are to be announced.
Cost: Free / Register at Skills Matter and on Meetup

14 November - 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)

15 November - Hardware - London E1

Who: OSHUG
What: Event #22 Embedded – the 22nd OSHUG meeting will include three talks about how Erlang can be used to bring concurrency to multi-core embedded systems, how the Parallella project aims to make parallel computing accessible to everyone, and about vital research into optimising compiler options for energy-efficiency.
Cost: Free / Register

15 November - 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

19 November - Groovy & Grails - London

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

20 November - Java - London W1S

Who: London Java Community
What: London Developer Sessions – regular monthly social meeting.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

24 November - Perl - London W1W

Who: London Perl Workshop
What: London Perl Workshop – a free one-day conference in central London. This year's theme is "25 Years of Perl" and the conference will focus on the use of Perl in the commercial world and the strength of Perl for development in an enterprise environment.
Cost: Free / Register

24-25 November - Hackathon - London EC2A

Who: European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation
What: Open Interests Europe Hackathon – Help build the tools needed by journalists and activists to investigate lobbyists’ influence and where the money goes in the EU.
Cost: Free / Register

28 November - Hacks/Hackers - London E1

Who: Hacks/Hackers London
What: Hacks and Hackers Meetup – details to be announced.
Cost: Free / Register on Meetup

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.