LSx 2009

Hey everyone, LSx 2009 (the second Leeds Web Festival <http://lsx09.com> ) got off to a great start earlier this week with the the May edition of OpenCoffee <http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2408058/> , the Digital Britain unconference <http://dbucyh.eventbrite.com/>  as well as a meetup of the Leeds Hackspace <http://leeds.hackspace.org.uk/> community.

We have lots more planned, throughout the remainder of May - notably around the last weekend with BarCamp 2009, Future of Web Apps, Girl Geek Dinner & Physical Computing 101.

Head on over to http://lsx.09.com <http://lsx.dotnorth.org> for a full schedule and details how to register for individual events.

So what's coming up...
12th may innovation north 2009 showcase <http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/inn/news_innovation_north_showcase_2009.htm>
Leeds Met's undergraduate expo, showcasing the work of this year's graduating class in music technology, sound, games design, animation, special effects, creative media and computing.

19th may hackspace <http://leeds.hackspace.org.uk/>
Hackspace is an alternative term for Hackerspaces <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace> , a physical place where anybody with an interest in technology can meet up, socialize and collaborate on project within a vast range of technologies and languages.

20th may geekup <http://geekup.org/events/133/>
An evening social of internet industry workers, including a trio of brief 20:20 talks - Clare Lindley on Creating iPhone apps with PhoneGap, Phil Helliwell on What your BIG-IP can do for you & Jonathan "Squigfried" Powell on Hack Spaces, and why having one in Leeds will be awesome.

27th may girl geek dinner <http://leedsgirlgeekdinners.com/>
An evening buffet accompanied by keynote speakers representing the best femalte talents in the technology sector. Seedcamp <http://www.seedcamp.com/>  CEO, Reshma Sohoni <http://www.seedcamp.com/pages/about_team#reshma> , and Democracy PR's founder, Jennifer O'Grady <http://www.democracypr.com/our-team.html>  will be one of the featured speakers, with around 70 guests drawn from the city's most talented and respected female professionals in creative and digital.

28th may future of web apps tour <http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2009/tour>
Ryan Carson's renowned conference comes to Leeds for the first time, at the city's newly opened Rose Bowl. The theme is Cloud Computing - with speakers from Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce.

29th may physical computing 101 <http://physicalcomputing.eventbrite.com/>
tinker.it <http://tinker.it/>  an innovative consultancy that's bringing together the physical and digital worlds through creative technologies will be leading a day long Beginner's Guide to Arduino, to help novices and experts alike learn how to build small electronic widgets!

30-31st may cupcake camp <http://cupcakecampleeds.eventbrite.com/>
An afternoon of cake--related debauchery - bringing together the ancient elemental power of sugar, cream & flour in an orgy of cakey goodness! Eight master bakers will battle to the death - to win your confection affection - only one will prevail, while others will be sacrificed on a moist, spongy altar...dripping with jam.

30-31st may barcamp leeds {2009} <http://barcampleeds.com/>  &
BarCamp Leeds is the city's third 'unconference', a event where the folks that attend create the programme of sessions themselves. BarCamps are open, participatory, democratic, 'workshop' events; the organisers and sponsors simply provide wireless broadband, a venue, beverages and food! The attendees provide the content - and the buzz.

3rd june exposure leeds <http://exposureleeds.org/>
The city's photographic community is supporting LSx by running 60-90 minute workshops photography workshops with a technological bias - some topics might include Flickr, Photoshop, HDR, PhotoSynth and Lightroom.



We're pretty sure there's something here that'll appeal a little to everyone across Leeds' digital communities (and seriously, everyone likes cake!). LSx has been built by all of you

So jump in, take your pick and we hope to see you around LSx in the next few weeks :)

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