[Blackpool] Wuthering Bytes

[Olly Clark]

Hello Everyone,

Just incase anyone is thinking about going and hasn't seen the details 
of this year's Wuthering Bytes in Hebden Bridge, this year it's going to 
be run over 10 days. Starting on Friday 2^nd September with the 
“Festival Day”, featuring 10 talks from a fantastic speaker line-up and 
covering a diverse range of topics:

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    Hacking Robot Dinosaurs, Dr Lucy Rogers (engineer, author and judge
    on the new series of Robot Wars)

  *

    Project Nimbus: The Projection of Moving Images onto Clouds from an
    Aircraft, Dave Lynch (artist, director and inventor)

  *

    Prototyping for Public Good, Rachel Coldicutt (Director of Products
    & Service at Doteveryone)

  *

    The Magic Lantern at the Turn of the 19th Century,Phillip Roberts
    (researcher working with the*National Media Museum*and*University of
    York**)*

  *

    Northern Powerhouse: A Text Adventure Game, HwaYoung Jung
    (multidisciplinary artist working in
    the*arts*,*cultural*and*sciences**)*

  *

    What does mass spectrometry have to do with me?Giles Edwards
    (*analytical chemist, engineer and musician**)*

  *

    Digital futures: art & design in a hyper-connected world,*Irini
    Papadimitriou*(*Digital Programmes Manager at the V&*A)

  *

    The secret life of your mobile, Geoff White (Channel 4 News)

  *

    Glowsticks, Lasers and Making Art with Code, Seb Lee-Delisle
    (digital artist and speaker who uses computers to engage with people
    and inspire them)

  *

    Catching up withDomesday, Andy Finney (radio and TV producer
    whohelped to found the*BBC Domesday Project**)*

Tickets are priced at £10 and this includes lunch.


Festival Day will be followed by Open Source Hardware Camp taking place 
over the weekend of 3^rd & 4^th September, featuring 12 talks on the 
Saturday and 4 workshops on the Sunday. This will then be followed on 
Monday 5^th by the Open for Business Conference, hosted by the BCS Open 
Source Specialist Group and Open Source Consortium.


On Tuesday 6^th ODI Leeds will then be taking a look at “open smart 
cities”, with a full day of*exploration, show & tell and collaborative 
work.*


*Thursday 8th Wuthering Bytes will be playing host to the first ever 
LLVM Cauldron,*a one-day conference with a*single talks track*and 
a*space for breakout sessions*,*birds of a feather*, and potentially 
tutorials. The meeting is*free to attend and open to anyone whether a 
hobbyist, from academia, or from industry*, and regardless of previous 
experience with LLVM. The conference keynote will be delivered by*Andy 
Wingo <http://wingolog.org/about/>*, maintainer of the*Guile 
<http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/>*Scheme implementation and committer 
to*V8*and*SpiderMonkey*.


Finally, the annual GCC, GDB and friends developer conference, GNU Tools 
Cauldron, will be there from Friday 9^th until Sunday 11^th September.


For further details and to register please 
visit:<http://wutheringbytes.com/>http://wutheringbytes.com

Regards

*Olly Clark

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