Jam 18: Communicating

held November 2010

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Google London Open Source Jam

When

Thursday 11^th November 2010. 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 Communicating.

• Programming languages: communicating in code. Closure, Go, C - they're all equal, right?
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• Communicating with outsiders: what does your project do?
• Designing for understandability.
• XMPP, PubSubHubBub, Salmon, etc. Making your code talk.
• Different audiences, different needs?
• Rounded corners: what do they say about you?

Hosts

Zak Cohen, Matt Godbolt, Alex Clarke, 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 5^th floor, where you can sign in to the Google reception; when you arrive up there, please ask for the Open Source Jam event.