[dundee] Tech Meetup in Dundee

Wed Mar 27 19:30:13 UTC 2013

Brian,

Thanks for Tuesday night's event I enjoyed that. I thought the individual
stand format worked well.

Can you post info on the young coders training scheme you discussed? In
particular the curriculum you will follow.  I think subscribers to the list
and members of the Society would be interested in joining your pool of
volunteers so it would be good to spread the word.

Well done on that initiative and how far you have progressed and good luck
when it starts.

Thanks,

Paul

From:  Brian Davidson <brian at bcd.me.uk>
Reply-To:  Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Date:  Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:56:51 +0000
To:  Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject:  Re: [dundee] Tech Meetup in Dundee

No worries, yes we did have a talk about a surgical training tool developed
for the iPad by a team of surgeons and developers. That was last October I
think. We've got some awesome stuff in the works for the coming year too.

>From memory, our talks have been...

Dare to be digital demos
STAR technologies talking about their hardware and software being used in
space tech - this was an awesome talk!
Chris van der Kuyl talking about his vision of the tech community in Dundee
Andy Cobley did a talk on Cassandra performance/clustering on Raspberry Pi
Rod Burns did a talk on "The Internet of Things" - before it became a buzz
phrase ;P he also talked about Code Club and why teaching kids to code is
important
Jean Nehme talked about his vision for the application of technology in
education and how he's applying that by releasing Touch Surgery
Mike McQuaid gave a talk about the work he does on the Homebrew package
manager for OS X
Macro Micro Studio folks from DJCAD Architecture Masters gave a talk about
home automation
Bert McDowell gave a talk on his career in games from a working stiff to
founding his own studios and releasing games for iOS independently
Freeformers came up from London to talk a bit more about what it is they do
training people to code and Code Club (we do like encouraging Code Club -
we're actually working with some folks to get it started up in Dundee. Give
me a shout if anyone is interested in helping out with this, Enhanced
Disclosure is needed but will be paid for.)
Richard Higgs the Managing Director of brightsolid and entrepreneur gave a
talk on things he wishes he'd known before getting started in business as
well as a pre-announcement of the IDEA Scotland Center opening in Dundee
backed by brightsolid, DC Thomson and Abertay.

Then last month we mixed it up a little, it was more of an open forum
discussing what people were working on and what people were thinking about
the format, we took that feedback and came up with what we are trying this
month. 

There is one talk but there will also be stands with people demoing their
work, hopefully it'll encourage more discussions and just all round more
things to see. Kenny (one of the organisers) will be demoing his plethora of
Windows devices - Surface RT, Surface Pro and Nokia Lumia 920. The talk is
by Grant Richmond who will be talking about his new project and has promised
an interactive presentation.

See you on Tuesday!

On 22 March 2013 19:32, Paul Sutherland <newsonthegrapevine at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks Brian. I missed that post unfortunately.
> 
> I can't recall your colleagues name but when we chatted he had lined up an
> impressive selection of talks. Did you guys have a talk about cutting edge
> surgical software recently?
> 
> What other talks have you had?
> 
> I am sure some of the guys would be interested in doing some talks. There has
> been great variety done over the past year or so in the burgh. I have enjoyed
> all I managed to attend.
> 
> Looking forward to Tuesday, catch you then
> 
> Cheers 
> 
> Paul 
> 
> 
> On 22 Mar 2013, at 18:16, Brian Davidson <brian at bcd.me.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hello! I posted the first or maybe second event to this group way back in
>> June last year but I never came along to a meeting so maybe one of the other
>> organisers did (There's me, Andy Cobley, Ryan Cormack and Kenny Lowe).
>> 
>> Anyway this month we're planning something a little different with one talk
>> plus a couple of stands for people to demonstrate some of their work. If you
>> guys have anything you'd like to show or if anyone is up for speaking just
>> give me a shout and we can sort something out.
>> 
>> It's now fairly consistently sold out or near enough every month and we
>> always hold it on the last Tuesday of the month.
>> 
>> Hope to see some more of you guys there :)
>> 
>> 
>> On 22 March 2013 16:13, Ryan Ward <ry.ward91 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I go, I have a ticket too.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 22 March 2013 15:58, Paul Sutherland <newsonthegrapevine at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 22/03/2013 01:24, Gordon Gray wrote:
>>>>> Next Tuesday in Dundee University's Queen Mother Building
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://techmeetup.eventbrite.co.uk/ <http://techmeetup.eventbrite.co.uk/>
>>>>> 
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>>>> Thanks for posting this.
>>>> 
>>>> I remember one of the organisers came along to a Society meeting and he
>>>> said he would post details but I can't recall it was done.
>>>> 
>>>> Is anyone else thinking of going, I have booked a ticket.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Paul
>>>> 
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