The venue for London Barcamp 8 has fallen through. They have minimal budget and they need:
Venue available on the weekend of June 12th/13th
1 “large” space that can hold enough people for the opening talk (~150)
between 5 to 10 spaces for sessions, sizes varying between 10 to 40 people per room
possibility for about 60 people [...]
Monthly biogeekery and beer at the London Biogeeks Tech Meet tonight at Imperial College London.
Next month’s is at KCL, which means I’m on the hunt for people to speak. Get in touch if you’re interested.
Just a reminder to myself, you can:
make TEST_FILES=t/Foo-Bar.t test
Elia Stupka has proposed a Next Gen Sequencing Day in London.
Science Hackday at the Guardian offices in London.
From their wiki:
Where will this take place?
London. The Guardian have kindly offered up part of their building to serve as a Venue.
When will it happen?
The weekend of Saturday, June 19th and Sunday, June 20th, 2010.
What’s a Hack Day?
A bunch of geeks get together in the same physical [...]
Some notes I made while I was figuring out how to generate reports in R with Sweave: http://mng.iop.kcl.ac.uk/site/node/489
Karim Chine doing a workshop on Elastic-R: a google docs-like portal for data analysis in the cloud
http://biogeeks.wordpress.com/category/event/meeting/techmeet/
This is tomorrow at Imperial. All welcome. Come along to the pub if you can’t make it to the talks.
Full details at : http://biogeeks.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/february-tech-meet/
Briefly, talks are:
Andrew Clegg : Building your own search engine with Apache Solr
Manuel Corpas – KaryoDAS: An Interactive Genome Visualization Tool
Phil Dawes – Decentralised version control with Git
eeep. Forgot I’d signed up to go to dev8d.
Looks like it might be fun though – I’ve signed up for a beginners’ Arduino workshop and a Clojure coding dojo. Might drop in on the Rails and Python stuff too, as people keep trying to convince me Perl is going the way of Linear [...]
Just bought tickets for this.
Dara Ó Briain, Tim Minchin, Marcus Brigstocke, Robin Ince, Ed Byrne, Shappi Khorsandi, Professor Brian Cox, Simon Singh, Professor Richard Wiseman, Dr Peter Wilmshurst and Dr Ben Goldacre at the Palace Theatre, Sunday 14 March 2010 in aid of the Coalition for Libel Reform.