Google London Open Source Jam

When

Thursday 3rd December 2009. 6pm - 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 Web (again).

Hosts

Matt Godbolt, Malcolm Rowe

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 Rob Hudson Java, Rails, PHP, Django.
2 Andrew Bulhak HTML5,AJAX,jQuery,REST,Pylons,Google App Engine
3 Peter Harris Cloud, SAS, Creation
4 Alex Robinson HTML5, Javascript
5 Chris Highfield
6 James Shiell The death of IE
7 Ivan Sanchez
8 Joe Walnes
9 Steve Lothrop
10 Steev Using 'beta' as an excuse for not testing :)
11 John Rae
12 Aingaran Pillai Scalable Web application frameworks
13 Judy Rees X-Ray Listening
14 Kenneth Lee
15 Charles Forsyth Distributed systems; languages and compilers
16 Richard Taylor
17 David Miller Python,Django,Jquery,Php
18 Pawel Krupinski
19 Carlos
20 Guiomar
21 Lucian Piros
22 Mark Dixon
23 Anonymous
24 Greg N.
25 Chaitanya Kuber
26 Kris Jenkins
27 Red Davis Ruby, machine learning
28 Arturo Servin Mobile Web, App Engine
29 Farez Apps with smarts, mobile stuff, location-based stuff, just-in-time stuff
30 Alasdair Kergon
31 Akhil Verma Web, Distributed systems
32 David Matthewman
33 Gui Andrade
34 Sam Mbale Mobile Web
35 Paloma Liniers
36 Dan Atrill
37 Nigel Runnels-Moss Open Source, Non-Linear Management, Software Craftsmanship
38 Glyn Wintle Java, Open Rights Group
39 Rustem Suniev GWT,GXT,Java
40 Aleksander Sumowski
41 Shakur Shidane 42
42 Richard Melville small solid-state systems running open source
43 Ronny Ager-Wick Rails, Linux, FLOSS
44 Motti Strom Java, Mobile platforms, HTML5 on mobile, JavaScript libraries
45 Corinne Welsh Voluntary and education sector adoption of OSS.
46 Phil Dawes
47 Aleksei Gorny Python, Security & Privacy
48 Francisco Trindade
49 Florent Daigniere
50 Duncan Gordon
51 Stefan Turalski django, Python, cloud computing, integration (APIs, public data sources, web 3.0)
52 Chris Hedley
53 Ananth Krishna
54 Robert Rees
55 Simon Phillips
56 Douglas Squirrel
57 Ivan De Marino
58 Luca Colantionio
59 John Bower
60 Klaus Thorup
61 Tim Bormans

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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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