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Our road to chef-alfresco v1.0

Announcing our Speaker Enzo Rivello from Alfresco.

Food will be served from 6pm with talks starting at 6.30pm.

What would you do if you inherit a huge, legacy monolithic chef cookbook, with very little documentation and a lot of weak parts?

Do you decide to rewrite everything from the scratch or to bring this code to modern implementations?

This is a talk about how new technologies, best practices and optimal workflow can (and in most cases need to) be entwined to finally deliver our final product: chef-alfresco v1.0

Enzo is a long-time Italian expat in London who started first as Ruby programmer then later decided to extend his skill set into Ops and Automation.

Ex Playstation DevOps, currentlyDevOps/Tech Leader the Activiti and Automation team, his main focus is to help his colleagues to establish workflows and pipeline for continuous integration and delivery.

Thank you to our sponsors Chef for providing the food and drink.

https://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Thames-Valley/events/236959278/

https://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Thames-Valley/events/236959278/

Wed 1st Mar 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 1st Mar 2017 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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#OpenDataHack @ECMWF - Beyond weather: explore creative uses of open data

Developers, experts, students, data wranglers, data journalists, data enthusiasts, makers, artists – you are invited to join the meteorologists, scientists and engineers of ECMWF at our #OpenDataHack on 4 and 5 March 2017.
As part of our activities, including the recently-added EU-funded Copernicus services on climate and atmospheric monitoring, we have collected and created vast quantities of global environmental data.

Spend a weekend with us to make and demo prototypes for new services and products.
Make practical apps for travellers or growers, or build educational and playful tools for the young and young at heart. We want to see you do amazing things with ECMWF open data.

http://www.ecmwf.int/en/learning/workshops/open-data-week-at-ecmwf

https://open-data-hack-ecmwf.eventbrite.com/?aff=otc

Sat 4th Mar 2017 9:00am (Europe/London)

Sun 5th Mar 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

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All attendees, sponsors, partners, volunteers and staff at our hackathon are required to agree with the following code of conduct.

Be Respectful. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees. Behave professionally. Remember that harassment and racist, sexist, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate. Photography is encouraged, but other participants must be given a reasonable chance to opt out from being photographed.
Be Thoughtful. Consider and respect other people's opinions and beliefs. Everyone is entitled to their point of view and a diverse range of opinions and perspectives is one thing that allows us to create such innovative solutions at a rapid pace.
Be Open. We welcome attendees from all backgrounds and a hackathon is a great opportunity for learning and meeting new people. Be friendly, welcome and open with your fellow participants. Share your knowledge, expertise and opinions, and embrace those of other people. Consider open source licensing and use of open data and how code you are writing could be reused.
Be Awesome. Do your best and believe in yourself. A hackathon is an incredible experience for people of any ability level; everyone can make a valuable contribution. Not every project will be successful, but ideas that you believe in are worth trying. You could change the world, and if every one project that we build helps someone, saves a life or makes a positive difference, we have succeeded.

Android App Demo Night

Have you built or are you building an Android app you'd like to share? Are you trying to build an app but need to find a developer? Do you just want some advice?

Join us for demo night. We will have 10 slots available with 5 minutes each to share your app, ask for help or gain feedback.
To secure a slot email news (at) connecttvt.co.uk. We will allocate slots on a first come first served basis.

Food and drink will be provided from 6pm with talks from 6.30pm.

https://www.meetup.com/GDG-Reading-Thames-Valley/events/236984777/

https://www.meetup.com/GDG-Reading-Thames-Valley/events/236984777/

Wed 22nd Mar 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 22nd Mar 2017 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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GCP NEXT Extended 2017 Reading

Join us for GCP NEXT 2017 Extended featuring
- Live streaming the GCP NEXT event

Stay up to date on the latest and greatest from GCP NEXT. Whether it is about serverless machine learning in Cloud or Collecting and Analyzing Streaming Sensor Data on GCP you will learn something new at GCP NEXT.

We will live stream the GCP NEXT keynote talk where the latest and greatest is discussed and run a featured codelab.

https://www.meetup.com/GDG-Reading-Thames-Valley/events/237172281/

https://www.meetup.com/GDG-Reading-Thames-Valley/events/237172281/

Wed 8th Mar 2017 4:30pm (Europe/London)

Wed 8th Mar 2017 8:00pm (Europe/London)

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Designing for the Multi-Device Web + Practical Responsive Images

Multi-Device Interactions with the Web - Ben Foxall
where several devices are part of the same web interaction…

We think of people accessing a single device. But what if they could move seamlessly across devices, using the special characteristics of each?

Part demo, part talk, part interactive session, Ben Foxall takes us into a realm of possibilities to push past the constraints of a single browser app.

Practical Responsive Images - Ben Seymour
Images have just become responsive, thanks to changes in browser technologies. Recent progress with the <picture> element and srcset attribute means that this major constraint in a fundamental aspect of modern web development is being overcome. Coupled with a capable Dynamic Imaging System, we are close to making Responsive Images a truly Practical prospect.

Ben will show you how to do it and what benefits and approaches you can look forward to taking advantage of now, and in the near future.

ZeroDegrees, Bridge St Reading RG1 2LR

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Designing for the Multi-Device Web

Multi-Device Interactions with the Web - Ben Foxall
where several devices are part of the same web interaction…

We think of people accessing a single device. But what if they could move seamlessly across devices, using the special characteristics of each?

Part demo, part talk, part interactive session, Ben Foxall takes us into a realm of possibilities to push past the constraints of a single browser app.

ZeroDegrees, Bridge St Reading RG1 2LR

http://www.meetup.com/Thames-Valley-Web-Developers/events/193649582/

http://www.meetup.com/Thames-Valley-Web-Developers/events/193649582/

Wed 1st Oct 2014 7:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 1st Oct 2014 10:00pm (Europe/London)

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