Google London Open Source Jam

When

Thursday 18th June 2009. 6pm - 9.30pm.

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

We can't think of a fun topic so instead we're going to open it to pretty much anything you want to speak about - any language, technology, framework, architectural approach, process or shape of corner.

To give you some ideas, in previous sessions we've talked about:

Hosts

Joe Walnes, Neil Dunn, Malcolm Rowe, Zak Cohen, Jon Skeet, Matt Godbolt

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 Kelvin
2 Rob Hudson
3 David Sheldon java scalability web
4 Paweł Krupiński
5 Aleksander scalability
6 Paul Nasrat Web infrastructure, scaling, puppet, monitoring, python, ruby
7 Grzegorz Nieweglowski
8 Lisa van Gelder Java, Web
9 Lucian Piros mobile technologies
10 Tomas Lin Google App Engine + Grails, Flex
11 Michael Mahemoff Ajax, Web Standards, Rails, UX
12 Duncan Gordon
13 Kris Jenkins New internet & mobile technologies.
14 Ronny Ager-Wick Linux, Rails, Wave!
15 Leon Brocard Dynamic programming languages
16 Borys Musielak Open source, free culture and what results from such mixture, think: identi.ca, libre.fm, filmaster.com...
17 Sam Mbale OpenSocial APIs, Social Innovation
18 Andrew Webb Cloud, social, CMS, eCommerce, mobile
19 Charles Forsyth distributed systems, concurrency, writing compilers and operating systems
20 davie moston
21 Anonymous opensource,java
22 Tom Denley
23 oisin mulvihill
24 William Fulton C++ Java .NET Python SWIG
25 rikard anglerud
26 Kostas java, scala, lift, cloud computing, continious integration,google app engine, google apps, google wave!
27 Bülent Küçük Enterprise applications, Web applications
28 Frederik Dohr open source web apps (JavaScript, Python)
29 Julien Gagnet
30 James Larcombe
31 Paul Walmsley
32 cliff xuan
33 daniel kobayashi
34 Richard Wheeldon
35 Rob McKinnon webhooks, parliaments, bills, ruby
36 Makoto Inoue Mobile, Rhodes
37 Phil Wills
38 Matthew Ford Web Services, Ruby
39 Pehr Assarsson
40 Gavin Ellis
41 Duncan Armstrong Mobile Java, mobile generally
42 Karlis Zigurs mobile, mobile, mobile
43 Alex Edwards All things internet.
44 Alex Adranghi
45 Ivan De Marino
46 Luca Colantonio
47 John Bower
48 Shafi Ahmed
49 Chris Highfield
50 Moazzam Hussain
51 Wayne Davies Analytics, Sitemap, Javascript
52 Robert Rees Juno, Python
53 Stephen John
54 Kostas Georgiou
55 Phil Dawes Search, Structured data indexing, Machine Learning
56 Aingaran pillai
57 Jonathan Chetwynd web native game applications
58 Ann Witbrock
59 Klaus Thorup
60 Esther Sitali
61 Julian Burgess Ruby
62 Steven Goodwin
63 Ambikesh Jayal bioinformatics, java
64 Andrew Bulhak Python, jQuery, Pylons, App Engine, the social web
65 Kai Hendry
66 Sulamita Garcia
67 Cristiano Betta
68 Thomas Barker

Register

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To stay informed of future events, join our (low traffic) Google Group or subscribe to our Atom feed. You can also take a look at the list of past jams.

To make corrections to the attendees list, please email us.

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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