CAMDUG - Cambridge Developers' User Group

April 16, 2009 6:00 PM - 6 attended

CAMDUG: .NET User Group Inaugural Meeting #1

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The first "inaugrural" meeting of CAMDUG. Come join us for a drink (or a bite to eat) at The Tram Depot to discuss the newly formed Cambridge .NET developer's user group, and have your say in what will be on the calender for the next 12 months, or just come to meet up and share a pint with other .NET developers.

For more information about other .NET User groups and events in the UK please visit:
UK .NET Events

Please RSVP on either website, this one, or RSVP on the event I have created on the UK .NET events listing here:

http://ukdotnet.ning....

(I will consolidate everything into a single website over the next few weeks.)

If there is anything missing from this description, please contact me and I'll immediately update the description.

regards

Alan

Alan Hemmings
Off to a good start. Was able to clarify a goal for the group that was accepted by all present, that of providing post session "hands on coding" workshop. Was suprised to hear from Chis and Allister from (nxtGenUG) that there are a few hundred senior .net developers working in Cambridge. That's definately good news.

Posted April 17, 2009 at 3:29 PM
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6 attended

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Event Host

Alan Hemmings
Organizer
Alastair Smith
Co-Organizer

A useful inaugural meeting, that set the agenda for future meetings.
Stephen Harrison
Chris Hay
Allister
Krishna C

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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For software developers who care about their craft and enjoy expanding their horizons. Learning through doing, learning through chatting; good company and great fun. Generally with a Javascript, C#, NodeJS, Java, Ruby (and more recently Erlang, F#) slant, but not exclusively so and many of our events are language agnostic and deal with challenges and best practices surrounding software development for business as well as for fun. (We're looking for more Ruby and Python developers to please join us and help with sessions.) ..oh, and "functional" languages are quite "en-vogue" atom.

We generally organise events as people have ideas, or as sponsors and guest speakers are available, rather than having a regular schedule. Hack days are popular: getting together to learn about a technology through hands-on coding. Check out the past events if you want to know what else we've done. If you have other ideas for things that might be fun, feel free to post them.

Camdug is also the home of "snowcode": An annual free coding unconference held at a a great ski resort. This year's theme is "Node.js unconference" ... a week of awesome ski-boarding and learning. Booking for snowcode opens around 1st of February 2012!

What if you're looking for designers and/or developers and want to join CAMDUG to tap into the Cambridge talent pool?

If you're not a developer or designer or techie startup entrpreneur, then you can only join the group and attend socials by requesting to become a sponsor, which requires paying for beer and pizza at any of the socials that you attend. Becoming a sponsor is subject to approval by the management team and is a strict rule that ensures that the group members interests, privacy and fun are protected and that business interests are transparent.

If you are a recruitment agent, or work for a rectruitment agency, or have an interest in a recruitment agency then you cannot join as a member, and can only become a sponsor for an event.