My current events schedule 2011 Events in grey represent attendance rather than speaker/organiser, green is a book review October 2012 02 - Adobe - Create the web 02 - Graduate Developer - Meet a Mentor 10 - SFDC London - Teardown of Dreamforce 2012 15 - 17 - JAX London - Clojure made simple 25 - 26 FP Days Cambridge - Humane build management with Clojure 30 - London Clojure dojo Book writing: Clojure made simple - submitted Book writing: Practically Agile Previous events Events in grey represent attendance rather than speaker/organiser, green is a book review September 2012 28 - 29 Agile Cambridge - Continuous development, Growing pains 26th - London Clojure dojo 18 - 21 - Dreamforce 2012 August 2012 28 - London Clojure dojo - Blog post 07 - London Clojurians - Functional Composition July 2012 26 - SFDC London - Trust me I am an architect 12 - London CTO community - Practically Agile 09 - QCon Geek night for QCon13 03 - London Clojurians - Functional Web June 2012 26th - London Clojure dojo - Google hangout with BrisFunctional Moving house May 2012 9th - Mozilla open house 8th - London Java Community - Liberty Pi 16th - London Clojurians - (perfect? clojure environment) 24th - 25th - EuroClojure 29th - London Clojure dojo April 2012 25th - 27th - ACCU conference - Atlassian party 24th - London Clojure dojo - ClojureScript theme 16th - Design It, Build It - Evolving Agile Software workshop 5th - BCS SPA - Emotioneering: Products that people want to buy March 2012 29th - UK Atlassian community - London meetup 28th - Graduate Developer Community - Meet a mentor 27th - London Clojure dojo - ClojureScript theme 19th - London Java Community - Clojure made really simple (7minute lightning talk) 16th - Functional programming exchange - Clojure made simple 12th - Atlassian Unite - How Atlassian moved to DVCS, Community development at Atlassian February 2012 28th - London Clojure dojo 15th - Coding kata on event driven programming 1st-2nd - RedMonk Monki Gras 2012 January 2012 5th - 27th Atlassian bootcamp (Sydney Australia) 31st - London Clojure dojo December 2011 14th - London Software Craftsmanship roundtable 13th - London Clojure dojo 5th - Gradle workshop @SkillsMatter 1st - Clojure exchage @SkillsMatter - Intro to Noir, functional programming for the web November 2011 29th - London Clojure dojo 29th - NoSQL roadshow - Classic Car club, Trifork 28th - Jutta Eckstein - Typical pitfalls in agile software development 26th - London Java Community Conference - Really simple guide to Clojure, Expert panel 21st-22nd - XPDays - Experience report: kanban and theory of constraints 14th-18th - Devoxx 11th-12th - CitCon 7th-10th - W-Jax Germany - Getting started with Clojure 1st-2nd - JAX London Conference - kanban for effective teams / Continuous delivery, the writing is on the wall 17th - 18th - Lean Kanban Central Europe 16th - Ubuntu launch party 13-14th Scala Lift off conference 12th - Software Craftsmanship round table 11th - FuseSource community day 10th - Ravensbourne University confluence launch - Evolution of communication 6th - Kanban for Lean IT development 3rd - London Clojure - Introduction to Overture September 2011 29th - 30th - Agile Cambridge - Taking kanban to the masses, lessons learnt 27th - London Clojure dojo 20th - Adaptavist Atlassian Partner Event - Ambassadors go forth 14th - 16th Agile on the Beach, Cornwall 12th - QCon kickoff night 7th - London Software Craftsmanship round table August 2011 30th - London Clojure dojo 25th - Hacker news London 18th - London Scala user group coding dojo 16th - London Java Community developer sessions July 2011 26th - London Clojure dojo 21st - London Scala user group coding dojo 20th - LSug - Idiomatic Scala 19th - London Java Community developer sessions 18th - Agile testing with Bonfire - Visit from Atlassian developer - Ian Grunert 13th - The Last programming language - Uncle Bob Martin 11th - London Clojure community - talk 7th - Java 7 launch at Oracle UK June 2011 29th - Dev Tank 28th - London Clojure dojo 27th - Limited WIP Society - Nader Talia 23rd - Hacker News 22nd - London Software Craftsmanship roundtable 21st - London Java Community Developer Sessions 15th-16th - Scala Exchange 14th - Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts (Dick Wall) - San Francisco 6th-8th - Atlassian Summit 5th - Atlassian Partner event 2nd - Fractal TDD - using tests to drive system design May 2011 31st - London Clojure dojo 26th-27th - Whats Next Paris 25th - Towel day - Celebrating Douglas Adams 24th - Mary Poppendieck - a tale of two (airport) terminals 23rd - Limited WIP Society - games night two - Martine Devos 19th - LSug Scala coding dojo (TBC - looking for venue) 18th - London Continuous integration community 17th - XTC and the Government 16th-17th - London Testers Gathering 2011 - OpenSource service with Jenkins CI and TDD/BDD workshop 11th - London Rightshifting Unconference 3rd - London Clojure coding dojo 3rd - Packt publishing - Scribus 1.3.5 for beginners April 2011 Java.net editor report on my JAX London talk 21th - LSug Scala coding dojo 20th - London Continuous Integration - Evolving continuous deployment 20th - Visiting BBC in White City 19th - Atlassian London user group meeting - MC'ing the event 18th - London Software Craftsmanship round table 15th - Agile tales round the camp fire 14th - London Java community associates - 3 month planning 13th - DevTank 11th - 13th - JAX London presentation - Getting started with Clojure 6th - British computer society - Beyond agile 6th - Atlassian Road Trip - London 5th - Dzone book review - Camel in action 4th - How can craftsmanship move the industry forwards? - LSCc 1st - Fossbox - Linux and OSS support workshop March 2011 29th - Clojure dojo 25th - Pair training with Martine Devos - Kanban for teams 24th - LSug Scala coding dojo 24th - Cuke Up - Acceptance Testing / BDD conference 23rd - Weeknight testers - testing firefox 4 22nd - Applying Lean Software Development Principles Throughout the Organization 21st - MEAP book review - Machine learning in action 18th - Functional programming exchange - SkillsMatter 15th - LJC / GDC / LSug / LCg Developer sessions 15th - Fossbox - Desktop publishing workshop (Scribus) 14th - Graduate Developer community - distributed vs central version control 8th - Fossbox - Graphic design workshop (Inkscape & GIMP) 7th - Limited WIP Society - Kanban games night with Karl Scotland February 2011 28th - Kanban Vs The Mafia (cultural change) 28th - Inkscape Essentials for web designers (Slashdot review) 24th - LSug Scala coding dojo 15th - Facilitation of Brainstorming / agile planning session for Graduate Developer community 9th - DevTank - Engaging with Tech media / Erlang overview 8th - London Lean Startup - Business model canvas 7th - Limited WIP Society - Kanban clinic 4th - Fossbox - Linux and OSS support workshop 1st - Python dojo - participant January 2011 25th - London Clojure coding dojo - participant 23rd - DZone book review - Embedded Linux primer 20th - LSug Scala coding dojo 14th - Fossbox - Linux and OSS support workshop 13th - Limited WIP Society - Personal Kanban presentation 12th - Facilitation of Brainstorming / agile planning session for London Scala user group 11th - Facilitation of Brainstorming / agile planning session for London Java community December 2010 13th - London Clojure coding dojo - participant 3rd - Fossbox - Linux and OSS support workshop 1st-2nd - Lean and Kanban exchange - SkillsMatter November 2010 28th - XP Day presentation - Bringing Kanban to the masses - experience report 27th - London Java Community open conference - organiser, presented workshop on Test Driven Development 19th - Agile Testing and Behaviour Driven Development exchange - SkillsMatter 13th - LJC London Code retreat - facilitated weekend code retreat for 36 developers 10th - London Scala group - SBT up close and personal - technical workshop DZone book review - The Official Ubuntu Server book October 2010 DZone book review - The Official Ubuntu book Packt publishing - Glassfish 3 application server Packt publishing - Blender 2.5 Project Development Hotshot (Packt website) DZone review - 97 things every developer should know 6th-7th - Agile business conference 2010 - video interview - Half day kanban workshop | London Java Community (LJC) | Blog One of the largest Java User Groups in Europe, the LJC regularly runs monthly technical presentations, social gatherings and technical prizes for its 2,000+ members. I have delivered technical talks, ran code retreats, organised open conferences and facilitate our quarterly meetings. The LJC is sponsored by SkillsMatter, O'Reilly, Packt Publishing, Atlassian and others. Graduate Developer Community (GDC) | Blog With over 500 graduates, the GDC runs many presentations and practical workshop to help bridge the gap between University and working in Industry. I have run many workshops on open source software projects and and currently presenting a series on open source development tools for agile development. London Clojurians A fast growing community around Clojure, the lisp style functional programming langauge on the Java Virtual Machine. I have given talks on Clojure and the Noir web framework and also support the monthly Clojure coding dojo. IT Kanban A group of though leaders sharing their experiences of applying lean and agile practices to enterprises across a range of industries. XTC - extreme Tuesday club Agile practitioners meeting in an agile fashion every Tuesday (i.e. people who turn up are the right people). A great way to exchange ideas and talk through challenges with people who have a wide range of experiences. London Scala user group (LSug) | Coding Dojo | A 700 strong group of developers interested in learning the Scala functional programming language. I run a monthly coding dojo to help put into practice the technical learning we share from our monthly presentations by guest speakers. The group helped organise the biggest Scala event in the UK last year (second largest in the world.) Limited WIP Society (Kanban) A group of Lean and Agile practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds that meet to share there knowledge and experience of techniques such as Kanban, Systems Thinking, Theory of Constraints, etc. I am the event organiser and present about a third of the talks throughout the year. Ubuntu UK Local Community | My Launchpad The Ubuntu Local Community for the United Kingdom area, supplying advice and advocacy of Ubuntu Linux and open source software. The community also runs a number of events both technical and social. often in conjunction with Ubuntu and Canonical. FOSSBox An open source IT support company providing strategy advice, technical support and product training to a wide range of Volunteer sector organisations in London. I provide technical support for a monthly drop-in workshop and will be presenting several training courses in 2011. |


