Training & Events

May/2012 - Open Space - Singapore, Singapore

Organised by Agile Singapore

See this thread to follow up.Agenda7:00pm - Drinks and food7:30pm - Open Jam (see following for topics)9:30pm - EndWe welcome contributions of drinks and snacks! =)Open Space potential topics+ [waiting...]Place and DirectionsBy Train: Exit F, Farrer Park MRTThis building is secured with a security door. Press #05-01 button beside the door on the ground floor so that we can unlock the access door for you to enter.

Girls just wanna have fun... Ver 3.0 - New Delhi, India

Organised by I am Happy Project - Ni Dilli, Indian

A night out for girls to just have fun.. go dancing... this is ladies night out you can bring your boyfriends/spouses if you want to. By Popular demand the next meetup will be on 25 May Friday at AGNI @ The Park CP.BOYS  DON'T  BOTHER    RSVPing  ...   please

MiniBar Monthly Meetup - , United Kingdom

Organised by MiniBar

Hi allThis time we are going back to our roots and have good, old geeky and useful services being presented. We have Firehost coming as they provide great cloud hosting options (and we thought many of you need good hosting options). We also have MongoDB coming - a highly scalable NoSQL database. Efbian who make the Facebook API easier to use.......If you are interested in speaking send us an email at info@openbusiness.ccSpeakers

Clojure Lounge - Auckland, New Zealand

Organised by the Code Lounge

Clojure LoungeWould you like to take a stab at Clojure - the lisp language dujour for the JVM? Rather than trying to bite off all of clojure in one go, we'll going to take a look at this from choosing a web framework (webnoir) with a specific problem (???). We’ll build it with Maven, your IDE (or not, VIM is acceptable) of choice and deploy it to Heroku.Lets try building an oauth (using Github, Google and Twitter) for CodeLounge meetups using Twitter Bootstrap.

Weekly Hack Night - Chicago, United States

Organised by Chicago JavaScript Meetup Group

We'll get together to work on any JavaScript project. Bring your projects and/or questions.If you'd like any food or drink, please BYOB.

Ruggero Piano Fourth Friday Mix - Raleigh, United States

Organised by Culture and Cuisine Meetup

Fourth Friday Mix concerts are FREE and open to the public. Bring a friend or the whole family. Refreshments follow the evening's performance as well as an opportunity to talk with the musicians.Held at Bosendorfer Hall (walk thru the store to the back) @ Ruggero Piano, 4720 Hargrove Street, Raleigh. 7:30 p.m.From I-440 (Beltline) take Capital Boulevard north to Millbrook Road, take a left onto Millbrook, go to the second stoplight and take a right onto Hargrove Road.

Code retreat - Bucure?ti, Romania

Organised by The Bucharest Agile Software Meetup Group

In our day to day jobs we have the sense of wanting to get it done, that causes to rush. And so we try to cut corners, but sometimes we do not cut the corners in the best way because we do not know enough.During a code retreat we use pair-programming, which is wonderful because you can learn a lot from each other. We write our code using TDD and the known design rules. We focus purely on writing beautiful code, there is no pressure to actually produce a working solution for the problem.

efdhack2012 - Coventry, United Kingdom

Organised by Python West Midlands

Calling all Open Source contributors! This hackday is a little different. We're hosting a sprint to kick off a new open source project for a very interesting little charity called Evidence for Development (EfD). EfD wants to help people make better decisions about aid projects – at local and national level – by putting real data about the real situation in the hands of the people making the decisions.

New London SSUG Meeting - New London, United States

Topic: SQL Server Policy Based Manager Speaker: Victor Pavlov Pizza and Beverage will be provided by Victoria Pavlov, LLC

Saturday Afternoon of Drupal - Columbus, United States

Organised by Brian Stevenson

We had a good turn out at the last meetup. More than the room can handle really. Any body have anything to share or need help with a particular issue?We may be meeting in a new location, so look for the announcement.

HackTHIS: Arduino (Topic to be Announced) - North Lauderdale, United States

Organised by South Florida Hack and Tell

Want to get into robotics, learn how to bring your latest electronics ideas into real life, or build objects that will make your life easier?Attend a short workshop every other week to do hands-on experiments with Arduino!Every other Saturday of the next few months, we'll get together and attempt a new experiment with Arduino, an open-source hardware platform that makes working with electronics easier than ever!

Steve Dalton: Update from APOUC meeting - Spring Hill, Australia

Organised by Groovy & Grails Queensland

I recently attended the APOUC (Asia Pacific Oracle Users Community) meeting in Shanghai. In this meetup I will give a summary of what happened at the meeting and my feeling of how Java is developing under the stewardship of Oracle. I'll leave plenty of time for questions at the end and any questions I can't answer, I team happy to refer these back to Oracle now that there is a reasonably good communication channel for us to ask questions of the core Java team.

Building Great (and Profitable) Social Apps on Mxit - , South Africa

Organised by #HackSTB

Andy Volk and Gavin Marshall from Mxit will be presenting on the Mxit APIs. Specifically we'll be showing how you can use the Mxit billing/microtransaction, messaging, and social APIs to quickly build and deploy great apps on Mxit. And also talking about the successes and challenges that developers have encountered when building apps on Mxit.Our talk will be followed by an open Hack Night, so you can work on building your applications with your fellow developers in an open group setting.

In The Brain of Pekka Klarck: Acceptance testing and ATDD with Robot Framework - London, United Kingdom

The Robot Framework is a generic open source test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). It has an easy-to-use tabular syntax for creating test cases and its testing capabilities can be extended by generic and custom test libraries (a.k.a. fixtures). In this session, Pekka Klarck provides a thorough introduction of the most important features of the framework, its history, and the typical use cases.

The Boulder Area Scala Enthusiasts Monthly Meetup - Boulder, United States

Organised by The Boulder Area Scala Enthusiasts

Let's meet up to talk about the Scala programming language.

Thinkubator - Technology Think Tank Monthly Meetup - Rocky Point, United States

Organised by Thinkubator - Technology Think Tank

Welcome to Thinkubator. The purpose of this group is to collaborate with other tech professionals about technical business ideas and opportunities.

Memphis Python User Group - Memphis, United States

Organised by Midsouth Tech Corner

The location for this meeting has yet to be decided... If you're interested in giving a talk for this meeting, contact brad@mempy.org.

Hackernest Toronto Monthly Tech Social - Toronto, Canada

Organised by Toronto (Marketcrashers) Hackernest: web/tech entrepreneurs

Location TBA!*** You must RSVP to get a nametag! *** (or be socially ostracized)This is a casual, social group for technologists to come together, mingle, and perhaps find a partner in crime or two.| Sponsors:broadsphere.comcontestninjas.com |When: Hackernest socials run on the last Monday of every month at 8PMFormat: Ultra casual.  Hang around, introduce yourself, chat about tech/what you're up to, plot to take over the world, etc.Where: The Hackernest

Demo Day - Palo Alto, United States

Organised by Silicon Valley Chrome OS Group

Special demo day event. Demo your Chrome App here!

Lets talk about Testing Methodologies - San Francisco, United States

Organised by iPhone Testers

Thank you all who came out to our April event. Many folks wanted to chat about various testing methodologies and talk about advantages and disadvantages and share our experiences.We will geek out on QA methodologies, test automation topics and venture into some load and performance concerns.We're informal, community centric, and much more hip than other QA groups

OCAndroid Main Meetup #56(ALSO USER ISSUES) - Tustin, United States

Organised by The Android Developers/Users Group of US.CA.Orange Co.

(LT2MOD last mod=pst2012.05.14Mon1722)(LT2VER version=8.1) (LT2STA=prior versions well tested; please RSVP & comment)(LT2NAM= 1. M0TBPV: See the details of meetup #55 amid all instances listed in order; key quotes from there: 2. M1KE1R: | Hour range: 6:00pm-10:00pm 3. M41CGI: | CONVENIENT LOCATION with great food, just 0.6 miles from the 5 freeway exit, just south of the Irvine Spectrum Center, and with plenty of adjacent free parking. 4. M3BB40: Stuff to Bring 5.

SF Bay Groovy and Grails Meetup Group Monthly Meetup - Oakland, United States

Organised by SF Bay Groovy and Grails Meetup Group

Let's get together and talk about Groovy and Grails. For now, we will meet at the Pacific Coast Brewing Co ( ... ), which is pretty close to 12th street BART in downtown Oakland.

Guide to A/B Testing with Google Website Optimizer, with Alex Karpov - Vancouver, Canada

Organised by Internet Masterminds | Monday Night Internet Marketing Group

In this workshop with Alex Karpov you will learn how to take Google's free tool for conversion optimization and eliminate the guess work out of your conversion. With these tools you can get:1. Get the best landing page you can build2. The data to support you design changes to your website.You'll get the theory and best practices, as well as a real-world implementation of A/B and multivariate testing.

IT Camp: The Future of Virtualization – Hyper-V enhancements in Windows Server “8” - Suite 700, United States

IT Camps are semi-structured, no-fluff events exclusively designed to serve IT professionals. They are a free, in-person learning event for anyone seeking professional development as it applies to IT Professionals.

NoSQL matters 2012 - Cologne, Germany

Under the caption NoSQL matters, Germany’s largest international NoSQL conference will take place from May 29th to May 30th 2012 in Cologne. The event is supposed to give pioneers in this area the opportunity to present recent innovations in the dynamic field of large, scalable, high-performance databases. Among our speakers: Salvatore Sanfilippo (Redis), Jan Lehnard (Couchbase), Olaf Bachmann (Google), Douglass Judd (Hypertable), and Jonathan Ellis (Cassandra)

Microsoft Developer Tools Webcast Series: Developer Desktop Asset Management - n/a, United States

This webcast is intended for individuals who maintain System Center or some other asset management system and/or those responsible for license administration and compliance.

epubs. whats it all about? - London, United Kingdom

Organised by Academy Class Club

NEW VENUE IN SOHOHi thereWe're going to be running our regular events at a very nice bar i've found on frith street called Giraffe bar and Grill. they are even going to be offering "happy hours" on drinks and cocktails!We're in a pub so i thought it was about time we spoke about epubs

DevTank May - London, United Kingdom

Organised by DevTank

How well do you know your options?At DevTank this time round we're giving you a hefty helping of options to satisfy your decision making needs. Many thanks to our sponsors, Forward and Ginicam, for providing the beer and pizza!Liz Keogh - Real OptionsWe are all wired to avoid uncertainty. Unfortunately this causes us to make premature commitments all the time.

Microsoft PubSec Live - Win8 At Night: Bring your apps to life with tile and notifications - Chevy Chase, United States

Tiles draw users back into your app by awakening your tile on the Start screen. Notifications delivered through the Windows Push Notification Service draw your users back into your app even when it's not running.

RADNUG May Meeting: Going beyond the Soft in Software: Programming with Kinect and .NET Gadgeteer - Spotsylvania, United States

Rappahannock Developers .NET User Group's May meeting.*SPECIAL 5th Tuesday Meeting*Join Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie (aka Devhammer) for a tour of some of the fun new ways you can leverage your .NET coding skills to drive hardware.