Dev8D 2010 is a FREE event for software developers working in education
and research. The event will be an opportunity for developers to learn
and practice new skills, hear about development happening throughout the
country and participate in hands on workshops. The event lasts 4 days
but each day will stand on its own, so you don't have to sign up for the
whole event.
We only have a small amount of places left on this event, so if you
intend to book please do so quickly: http://www.dev8d.org/book.html
The event programme has now been released and more details are
available, here:
http://data.dev8d.org/2010/programme/dev8d_programme.html
There are links to each session from this page and also more detailed
information about the event can be found at:
http://wiki.2010.dev8d.org/
Here is a snapshot of event activities:
*Coding Labs - Hands-On Programming Workshops*
- SCALA
- Clojure
- Microsoft Zentity
- Python
- Ruby
- Google App Engine
- Exploring data.gov.uk Linked Data the painless way with Yahoo Pipes!
*Other workshops*
- Arduino workshops - Beginner and Advanced
- Cloud Computing - Beginner and Advanced
- Linked Data
*Project Participation*
Get involved in the one of the following projects at the event:
- DIY book digitisation (Scanning and Recognition, Image
Processing/Augmentation and Printing and Book Binding)
- DIY scientific instruments, e.g. weather stations, microscopes
- RFID and event tracking
- Remote Sensors
- Multi Core computing
- Emergence / Genetic algorithms
- Cloud Computing
Competition
We will be running a number of competitions throughout the event in
partnership with relevant companies and organisations to challenge
developers to solve a problem or engage with a dataset, apis or source code.
We are working with the following companies and areas for the competition:
- Microsoft
- Memento
- Blackboard
- Linked Data
Winners will be announced at the event on Saturday.
*Developer Recognition awards*
We hope to recognise developer effort during the week with special
awards on Friday, at the event dinner.
*Expert Talks (Lightning Talks)*
We have already over 45 expert talks confirmed (there will be over 80 by
the start of the event), they are grouped roughly
around the following themes: Linked Data, Mobile Technology, Cloud
Computing and Mash-ups and Data. A sample of some of the talks include:
- Post-relational data
- Public Data and the Linked Data Cloud.
- Are we ready for Cloud computing?
- Access Control to Web Resources
- NGS Applications Repository Portal
- A few rules about Exception Handling that you've possibly never
thought about!
- When will we get portable graphics?
- Qualitative Data Analysis for Software Design: Towards explicitly -
Sociologically-oriented software development methodologies
- Stay out of perl_lib
- Hackerspaces
- Half life 2 as a platform for social engagement and oral history
- Emergence or Genetic Algorithms
- GWT - coding Ajax web apps with Java
- WordPress
- Data visualisation with Processing
Dev8D is funded by JISC as part of the Developer Community Supporting
Innovation project (DevCSI for short) - http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk. The
aim is to bring together developers from higher education and other
sectors in order to learn from one another and ultimately create better,
smarter technology for learning and research.
Sent on behalf of:
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Mr Mahendra Mahey
Project Manager DevCSI
Research Officer
UKOLN,
University of Bath,
Bath,
BA2 7AY
Tel: ++44 (0) 1225 384594
Fax: ++44 (0) 1225 386256
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skypeID: mr_mahendra_mahey
Mobile: ++44 (0) 7896300820
http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk
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Marieke Guy,
Research Officer,
UKOLN, University of Bath, BA2 7AY
Web site: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
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Phone: 01225 703928
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