Yearly archives: 2010

Alfresco Meetup: London

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We’ve recently received word that the creators of the Alfresco Open Source content management system are holding a “Meetup” event at the Park Plaza, Victoria, London. The organisers provided the following description:

The Meetups cover a range of open source topics, and are designed to inform and educate the community on all the latest company news. Some Alfresco Customer speakers from last year included the CIO’s from Islington and the North London Waste Authority, and Alfresco is planning more customer speakers for the events this year.

For further details please see http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/2010/04/ukmeetup/

Dries to visit the London ‘Drupal Beer and Chat’ 1

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Monday the 29th March Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, will be visiting the London ‘Drupal Beer and Chat’ from 7pm to 11pm.
He will give a short presentation, followed by a question and answer session and then a few drinks.
It is free to attend and open to anyone interested in the world of OSS, especially Drupal. To attend please register here:

London Drupal Pub Meet

London, GB
1,052 Members

A chance to meet up with other people in London who use Drupal. This will be a very informal event and all are welcome: developers, designers, hobbyists, business users, peopl…

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UKUUG & O’Reilly: Perl Tutorials – London 13-15/04/10

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Beginning Perl – 13th April 2010

Intermediate Perl – 14th April 2010

Advanced Perl Techniques  – 15th April 2010

Tutor:  Dave Cross

Venue: Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London WC1B 5BB

for full course details, delegate fees and on-line booking form

http://www.ukuug.org/events/perl2010/

This event is organised by:  UKUUG Ltd., UKUUG is the UK’s Open Systems User Group, for people who care about open IT standards and the systems that implement them. UKUUG promotes education and understanding through its newsletter, regular briefings and conferences. It is independent of any industry groupings and not-for-profit. It values intelligence, thoughtfulness and long-term thinking rather than immediacy and froth.

O’Reilly – www.oreilly.com – publishers of the iconic ‘animal books’ spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books & services. The company has a long term history of advocacy, meme-making & evangelism.

“Question Time” on Open Source – Bournemouth 17/03/10

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In the style of the BBC program “Question Time”, join us for an evening of Q & A on Open Source software. BCS Dorset Branch welcomes the Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) – for an entertaining evening debating this hot topic. Is Linux the answer to everything? Can Open Source software provide a real viable alternative in the business world?

A panel of “experts” will be available to answer your questions and adjudicating events will be the Dorset Branch Chair, Dr Andrew Main. If you have a question please submit this before the event to dorset_events@bcs.org.uk although, just like the real program, we will take some questions on the night.

Booking is required for this event – see Booking Form

Time – 7pm for 7:30pm start

Location – The Lees Lecture Theatre, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Wallisdown Road, Poole – see location map

Panelists

Terry Coles a leading contributor and member of the Dorset Linux Users Group (DLUG) who is also an Engineering Manager and Consultant for EADS Test Engineering Services (UK) (formerly Racal Instruments) at Ferndown, Dorset.

Peter Dawes-Huish, CEO for LinuxIT, has been part of CRN’s A-List for two years in a row and is a member of the Society of Industry Leaders (SIL). In 2006 LinuxIT was chosen ‘IT Services Supplier of the Year’ at the Computing Awards for Excellence. LinuxIT helps companies throughout Europe by delivering IT consulting, technology and support services through the integration of Open Source solutions.

Simon Gardner a Technology neutral software developer, based in Bournemouth, currently specialising in content management technologies. Experience of delivering web projects using both open and closed source tools.

Nigel Wright, Sales Director, Abtech UK , West Moors, Dorset. Abtech UK is a local integrator of Open Source solutions. Abtech UK work with key open source vendors such as Red Hat/JBoss, Zimbra, Ingress and Alfresco. Abtech UK has carried out quite a lot of research on open source solutions and has a good understanding of the sector. Nigel has a real life viewpoint of how open source is received by the public and private sector as well as giving examples of where it is working well. He is also a BCS Elite member.