CAMDUG - Cambridge Developers' User Group

May 28, 2009 6:30 PM - 8 attended

Cambridge .NET Developer's User Group - pub drinks evening - May

Come join us the Cambridge .NET developers on Thursday evening for our monthly meetup and for some good company, beer and geek talk at the Tram Depot in Cambridge.

First round of drinks are free. For those of you who may be hungry and the Tram Depot serve's it's famouse Steak and Ale pie for not much more than sixpence.

CAMDUG is a social pub meetup once a month where .NET developers working in and around Cambridge can meet and network with other developers, share business opportunities and make friends who share similar interests.

Ronnie Barker
I attended and really enjoyed myself. We talked about some great topics and I managed to spout off about my favourite topic - Agile Development. We also talked about snowboarding - another passion of mine at the moment. Alan has some interesting plans to bring the two together...

Hey - someone took some photos of us munching on Pizza - where are they?

Posted June 1, 2009 at 9:18 AM
Alan Hemmings
weather was brilliant and the Tram Depot was a relaxing quiet place to sit in the sun and drink some good beer and eat some obligitory user group pizzas. Good discussion around agile, or semi-agile (grin) / lean development.

We chatted a lot about what coding days / "hands on" events we could host in Cambridge, with the emphasis on sharing (user contrib) not speaker driven and how there's a place for each.

Posted June 1, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Alan Hemmings
Great news: I attended #openspacecode with Alan Dean on the weekend immediately following our user group meeting, and he's volunteered to help us host an openspacecode (or similar) event in Cambridge. This follows on nicely from the discussion we had on Thursday.

Posted June 1, 2009 at 11:59 AM
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Alan Hemmings
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wonderful weather, great company, good beer and good topics with everyone contributing. I look forward to the next one. (will bring a proper camera with, iphone as camera = fail )
Jason Turner
Stephen Harrison
Ronnie Barker

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Stephen Oakman

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Michal Barczyk

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.