Google London Open Source Jam

When

Thursday 24th July 2008. 6:30pm - 9:30pm. Talks start at 7pm.

Where

Hosted at the London Google Engineering Office by the Google Open Source Team.

Belgrave House, 76 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9TQ. Map

Topic

This time, our topic of interest is Performance and Scalability.

How to Get Here

Take the tube (Victoria, District and Circle lines) or bus (multiple routes, including the 38 and 73 from the West End) to Victoria Station, and we're 3 minutes' walk from the station.

What to Do When You Get Here

When you arrive, in the main ground floor reception, tell the receptionist that you're visiting Google. You register there, then take the lift to the 5th floor, where you can sign in to the Google reception; when you arrive up there, please ask for the Open Source Jam event.

Attendees

# Who Interests
1 Richard Dallaway
2 Ewan Silver
3 James Shiell *
4 Steph Meslin-Weber Mobility, UI/Usability
5 Derek Baum
6 Christopher Hedley
7 Andrew Savory
8 Kenneth Lee Ruby on Rails, Ajax, Amazon EC2/S3
9 Alex Robinson
10 Richard Taylor
11 Scott MacVicar PHP Core Developer, SQLite, Memcache
12 Nico Toerl making stuff work and delicious food
13 Emma Persky Seriously cool tech!
14 Jonathan Chetwynd open source symbol communication: http://www.openicon.org
15 Davie Moston
16 Steev Re-instating pizza as OSJam's :)
17 Lucian Piros
18 James Fairbairn
19 Tom Denley
20 Imran Bohoran
21 William Liu
22 Mark Dixon
23 Paweł Krupiński
24 Julien Gagnet
25 Darren Hobbs Fast stuff. Big stuff. Big fast stuff.
26 Johan Oskarsson Performance and Scalability :)
27 Martin Shenton User-generated content and metadata, updated and queried frequently
28 Matt Godbolt Usual fleecing of Google for free food and drink. Pub afterwards!
29 Duncan Cragg
30 Alex Evans oranges
31 Paul Nendick learning and stuff
32 andrew bunday
33 Matthew Pontefract Being Right(tm)
34 Luke Petre performance
35 Heinrich Filter
36 Themis Bourdenas
37 Ellis Pritchard Caching, Distributed Memory, Multi-threading
38 Jason Sankey Javascript optimisation. Build/testing/CI.
39 Sabrina Leandro
40 Zoe Slattery PHP
41 Alice Bartlett
42 Matthew Ford Ruby
43 Arpad Ray PHP
44 Mikko Koppanen PHP, Scalability, Performance
45 Edmund von der Burg lots
46 Leo Lapworth perl, ec2, stuff
47 Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker Perl, Profiling, Monitoring
48 Nicholas Clark Measuring performance
49 Sue Spence perl/j2ee performance & scalability performance measurement
50 Phil Dawes Functional Programming. Data. Semantic Web.
51 Nigel Runnels-Moss
52 Manik Surtani JBoss
53 Mark White
54 Douglas Squirrel
55 Peter Pilgrim Java EE development, web development and Java FX (RIA)
56 Tim Ellison
57 David Sheldon
58 Jan Berkel
59 Melissa Palmer
60 Mal Minhas Python, Twisted

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FAQ

What is it?

In a nutshell, it's a pretty informal evening, we ask developers who have ideas or are already working on them to come and engage others to collaborate and code for your open source project. In a way, it will be like what goes on in the corridors, between sessions at a conference, except without the sessions. So you get to tell others about your idea and get new interested folks to work on your projects.

Who is it for?

Anyone who wants to work on a fun project. You may have an idea and need more help or are already working on an open source project and want to work with others, or you'd like to get involved in a new open source project and meet like minded developers. Or perhaps you've got nothing better to be doing on a Thursday night than hanging around with a flock of opensourcerers and hack.

What will be there?

Other interesting people to code with. A space to hang around in. Computers and wifi. Oh, and lots of delicious pizza.

What will happen?

Some people may choose to present a 5 minute lightning talk on what they're doing. Then little groups will form and people will work together on code! We'll encourage contributing good things back to open source projects, or maybe the launch of new projects.

What shall I bring?

The only thing you really need to bring is yourself. If you have a laptop you like to develop on, please bring that too.

Why is it in the evening?

It's intentionally on a school-night as that allows many people to attend who would struggle during the day because of their job commitments.

What kind of talk should I give?

Five mins lightning talk. If you want to bring slides or a demo, please do, but don't feel you need to - talking and/or whiteboards is just as good. Remember your audience are techy open source geeks. If you feel like giving a talk (and we'd love you if you did), please let us know.


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