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EuroPython 2009 open for registration

Alex Willmer — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:01:14 +0000

If you’ve enjoyed PyCon UK the last 2 years, the bad news is that it won’t be happening this year. The good news is that EuroPython 2009 is coming to sunny Birmingham instead, for 3 days from Tues 30th June to Thurs 2nd July and registration is now open. The even better news is that until 14th March it’s really cheap, like 50% off cheap making the 3 day conference only £95.

As a warm up, from Sunday we have 2 days of tutorials at the bargain price of £70. To close there will be sprints from Friday 3rd July, and in case any Django coders get home sick it all coincides with the Birmingham International Jazz Festival.

My talk on ArcGIS and IronPython has been approved. So I’ll see you there.

Ubuntu Long Term Support and LugRadio Live

Alex Willmer — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:21:26 +0000

My first ever LugRadio Live was LRL 2006, which was the perfect opportunity to pickup CDs of the then newly released Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

My last ever LugRadio Live is LRL 2008, which will be the perfect opportunity to pickup CDs of the now newly released Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS.

See you there, July 19th – 20th.

UKUUG spring 2008 and 1st PostgreSQL UK conference report

Alex Willmer — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:38:15 +0000

My first UK Unix User Group conference and the first ever Postgres UK conference ended on Wednesday. Both were successful, reactions I overheard were good. Dave Page has a posted a wrapup.

My favorite talk of the conference has to be Software patents and open standards by Pieter Hintjens. His style was engaging and his words cleared my understanding and opinion of software patents and more. Expect a post on this matter soon. There were many more talks on the Wednesday I would have loved to attend. Audio was recorded for nearly all talks and should be uploaded soon.

A close second is Explaining EXPLAIN by Greg Stark. He gave a concise & understandable talk on a deep subject in a short timeslot. The slides from all the postgres talks have been uploaded already. A

The PostgreSQL conference closed with a discussion of features attendees missed in PostgreSQL and discussion of a conference goal – to increase the profile of the UK PostgreSQL User Group (ukpug). The ukpug mailing list takes a little tracking down, but please sign up if you’re in the UK and into PostgreSQL.

UK Unix Users Group Spring & Postgresql UK Conferences

Alex Willmer — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:20:36 +0000

The UKUUG Spring 2008 and first ever PostgreSQL UK conference are soon. The UKUUG conference runs from Monday 31st March until Wednesday 2nd April, the Postgres event runs for 1 day on the Wednesday. They’re both in Birmingham, at the Conservatoire. That’s the same location that held the first PyCon UK, for those of you keeping track.

I’ll be speaking on Extract Transform and Load (ETL) with Python and soaking up all I can about PostgreSQL.

Officially early bird registration ends tonight (Monday 10 March). A little bird told me that that the website won’t be updated a night or two. So book now to get the whole 3 day conference for only £180, inc. UKUUG membership or £140 if you’re already a UKUUG member.

See you there. Alex.