What's happening?

All of the major IT & Developer community groups in and around Bristol are coming together for an event at the UWE. Essentially the event is one big meet up, open to the public. Each group will be doing a presentation on themselves, what they are about, and what they offer the local community. Several groups will be putting on a technical presentation in their chosen area. How-to workshops will be running alongside the main presentations. The event concludes with 5 minute lightning talks on a variety of subjects.

Attendee places are limited, so registration is required. Register early so as not to miss your space, and notify us if you can't make it so as to free up the space for someone else.

What's the current Schedule?

The Schedule is divided into 10 minute group introductions, followed by 30 minute tech talks. Each group is doing an introduction, most groups are then following with a related tech talk.

NOTE: this if the current proposed schedule, and is likely to change considerably in the run up to the event. Please follow us on twitter or check back for the latest schedule changes.

Time Room 1

2Q49 Room 2

2Q50 Room 3

2Q42 Room 4

2Q48 Room 5

2Q43 9:30 Morning Teas Fairtrade Tea, Coffee & Biscuits

Orange Juice (8oz glass)

Apple Juice (8oz glass)

Large Danish Pastry 10:00 Introduction & Keynote Talk A Meetup Organiser's Field Guide: How to start and run your own meetup 10:20 Nokia SWUX (South West Usability Discussion Group) ACCU Bristol & Bath UWE CSCT Department 10:30 Game of Life Why User Testing will Make you Happier The Inner Secrets of Compilers WORKSHOP MSc Software Engineering 11:00 Break Fairtrade Tea, Coffee & Biscuits

Orange Juice (8oz glass)

Apple Juice (8oz glass)

Large Danish Pastry 11:10 True Clarity SW Mobile Bristol Wireless Group WORKSHOP British Computing Society 11:20 Perspectives on Software Development Cross Platform tools / Mobile Backend as a service Bristol Wireless and the Linux Terminal Server Project WORKSHOP Lifelong learning, shaping your career, and other advantages of getting involved with BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT 11:50 CERN Django Bath & Bristol Users Group SouthWest CouchDB WORKSHOP Bath Scrum Users Group 12:00 The LHC Grid - High Performance Computing in High Energy Particle Physics Building open source with Django CouchDB: Past, Present and Future WORKSHOP Scrum, A Deceptively Simple Process 12:30 Lunch Finger buffet

Sandwiches with a selection of meat, fish and vegetarian fillings

Kettle Crisps

Assorted Shortbreads

Fresh Fruit Bowl

Coffee or Tea

Vegetable Satay Skewers with Dip

Chicken Satay

Crisps, Cheddars, Gerkins & Olives

Bacon Hogie

Sausage on stick

West Country Goats Cheese and Red Onion Marmalade on Crostini

Stuffed Baby Potatoes with Bacon and Cheese & Birds Of a Feather tables at lunch (BOFs) This is a chance to get involved in discussion of specific topics over lunch with like-minded people. We currently have the following tables assigned, but we have room for more. If you'd like to suggest a topic for a BOF, please let us know [using the form, or sending email to someone appropriate], or write it on the BOF board on the day. Key signing, lead by Zak Wilcox This is a classical keysigning to help strengthen the web of trust (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party for details). Those wishing to participate need to bring two things: valid (non-expired) government-approved photo ID, to prove that you are who you say you are (basically, passport and/or driving licence); and a bunch of slips of paper or business cards, each with their long key fingerprint and name on them (in GPG this is obtained with just "gpg --fingerprint <yourname>"). The number of slips of paper required will depend on how many people are interested. BOFs 13:30 Reintroduction 13:50 Cloudant Bristol Web Folk unified.diff and Cardiff Dev Workshop Drupal Somerset Bristol Girl Geek Dinners 14:00 Your Database to the Cloud, an Intro to Cloudant NoSQL Node.js: The Practice and Ethos Coding in Community The Drupal Open Source Community Cultural diversity in the workplace 14:30 Bristol SkillSwap Bristol Web Folk Bristol & Bath Perl Mongers Gloucester Linux Users Group Software Testing Club 14:40 The technology of sharing Front end web development Perl 6 ... Am I Bovvered? Software Packaging with RPM Chaos, Randomness and Falsehood. Testing, why bother? 15:10 Break Fairtrade Tea, Coffee & Biscuits 15:20 Dorkbot Bristol/Bristol Hackspace Bristol Web Folk Bristol and Bath Linux User Group PHP South West Misc groups 15:30 Come and see our electronic projects in action NodeCopter Free and open source software: experiences of using and how to contribute Unit Testing and Software Design South West Scala - Local database user groups - ForceWest 16:00 Lightning Talks 17:00 Closing statements 17:30 After Party

The following how-to sessions are running

Time Room 4

2Q48 10:30 Bath Ruby User Group Building web applications with Ruby on Rails 12:30 Lunch 14:00

Who's involved?

Want to help?

If you would like to help with the 2013 Bristol MegaMeet, please get in touch using the form below.

If you are interested in sponsoring the event or you would like to talk about your company at the MegaMeet then enquire here.

The Talks

The Workshops

Building web applications with Ruby on Rails Group Bath Ruby Users Group Speakers Andrew Nesbitt Description A hands on workshop introducing ruby and Ruby on Rails for building dynamic web applications, bring your laptops and kick start your next Web 2.0 startup! Please note that we cannot guarantee that there will be a power socket available for every attendee, so make sure that your laptop is fully charged. It will also save time in the workshop if you can install Rails before you arrive: http://railsinstaller.org/

The Lightning Talks

How to embrace Continuous Integration Affiliation Box UK Speakers Gavin Davies Description Lots of us want to do CI, but not all of us do. Hear how Box UK embraced CI step-by-step and hopefully be encouraged to take your own automation forwards! Coding masterclasses in schools Affiliation Box UK Speakers Gavin Davies Description Developers from Box UK have been teaching programming classes in schools around South Wales. Find out what we've learned, what the challenges are, and consider how we can train the next generation. Using WebP Now Speakers Stu Cox Description Covering the benefits and pitfalls of using this image format on the web today, with a couple of simple code examples Get into your genes: the EnsEMBL project Affiliation Bristol & Bath Perl Mongers Speakers Michael Gray Description A whistle-stop tour of the EnsEMBL genome browser, REST interface and perl API: http://www.ensembl.org/index.html

After Party

Live it up like a student!

BBQ with Beef burger/hotdog

Pizzas

Open bar (Free Drink!)

DJ playing requests from the 70's to modern

We strongly recommend taking advantage of UWEs excellent bus connections so that you can relax and drink at the after party :)