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phplondon 2008 29th February, London [1] PHP London is a non-profit group to promote knowledge sharing and best practice amongst PHP developers and web development and business professionals in London.
- All stands / booth were reserved for sponsors. We've offered some cash in the hope that we can represent. Also planning to send 300 x badges and SO leaflets.
EUSecWest: 1-2 March, London [2] The worlds security professionals will converge on London in May 2008, to discuss new technology, and share best practices. The most significant new discoveries, technologies, and products will be presented at the third annual EUSecWest conference, brought to you by the organizers of PacSec and CanSecWest.
- ~~Becky unavailable so a no-go?~~
LUGRadio Live: Summer 2008, Wolverhampton[3]
- Have emailed show asking to get involved
LinuxWorld: 4-7 August, London [4] Linux and open source
- Form filled and awaiting chat from their sales manager.
- This is in San Fran, CA - not London - so has been struck off

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BarCamp Scotland 2008: 1-2 February, Edinburgh [5] BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. Participants drive the event. Its free & open to all.
FOSDEM: 23-24 February, Brussels [6] FOSDEM '08 is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. Eurostar fares currently £145 return Becky hogge 17:44, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
phplondon 2008 29th February, London [7] PHP London is a non-profit group to promote knowledge sharing and best practice amongst PHP developers and web development and business professionals in London.
QCon: 10-14 March, London [8]
Open Knowledge (OKCon) 15 March 2008 The event will bring together individuals and groups from across the open knowledge spectrum for a day of seminars and workshops around the theme of ‘Applications, Tools and Services’. http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/ http://www.okfn.org/wiki/okcon2008/
LSE copyright conference: 19 March
ECIR: 30 March - 3 April, London [9] The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the major European forum for the presentation of new research results in the broad field of Information Retrieval. The conference encourages the submission of high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished results.
UKUUG Spring 2008 Conference: 31st March - 2nd April, Birmingham [10] UK Unix User Group conferance for system and network administrators including Perl, Python, Ruby and Smalltalk.
InfoSec Europe 2008: 22-24 April, London. [11] Infosecurity Europe is Europe’s most comprehensive convergence of information security professionals. It addresses today’s strategic and technical issues in an unrivalled education programme and showcases the most diverse range of new and innovative products and services from over 300 of the top suppliers on the show floor.
EUSecWest: 21-22 May, London [12] The worlds security professionals will converge on London in May 2008, to discuss new technology, and share best practices. The most significant new discoveries, technologies, and products will be presented at the third annual EUSecWest conference, brought to you by the organizers of PacSec and CanSecWest.
LUGRadio Live: Summer 2008, Wolverhampton[13]
iCommons 2008: 29 July-1 August, Sapporo [14] International summit of the open culture community
LinuxWorld: 4-7 August, London [15] Linux and open source
PyCon UK: 12-14 September, Birmingham [16] PyCon UK is a conference all about the Python programming language, it's aimed at the Python community: Python users and programmers, of all skill levels.
Future of Web Apps: 1-3 October, London [17]