diff --git a/blog/_posts/2015-05-10-venue-change-for-may-meetup.md b/blog/_posts/2015-05-10-venue-change-for-may-meetup.md index 918bd20..a4b4fb2 100644 --- a/blog/_posts/2015-05-10-venue-change-for-may-meetup.md +++ b/blog/_posts/2015-05-10-venue-change-for-may-meetup.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Since we started Unified Diff back in 2012 we've hosted the event at [number](http://www.coolplaces.co.uk/system/images/4862/P1020088-large.jpg) [of](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UUV5SCEflwQ/URThyWQ1ffI/AAAAAAAAGb8/Qg0Q5Gje9as/s1600/DSCF9456.JPG) venues... Before landing on the perfect location... [Founders Hub](http://foundershub.co.uk/). -Sadly though, the hub has now closed and left a sizeable hole in the Cardiff tech scene. +Sadly though, the hub has now closed and left a sizable hole in the Cardiff tech scene. This leaves us and a number of other events in search of a new home, and after a lot of looking around and visiting various places we've decided to make that home the [Acorn Recruitment](http://www.acornpeople.com/our-locations-map/south-wales-midlands/cardiff-branch) diff --git a/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md b/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee5610d --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: August update - switching to every other month +--- + +The Unified Diff team met up recently to discuss how it's going. Jenko made graphs and everything. I ate a pizza that made me feel unusual. + +Anyway, we are happy with Acorn as a venue - it puts the focus on the talks. + +We have a challenge, however: very few people are coming forward to do talks. Whenever you see me or Warren do a talk, it's often because someone has dropped out or we simply couldn't find a speaker and we're worried you'll get sick of the sight of us! + +We seem to be relying on a small group of speakers who are great but we always hoped that we could encourage more people to come forward. We could contact big companies to ask them to send speakers, but when we started Unified Diff, we wanted it to be a community event - by local software people for local software people, talking about real things that we do - rather than sitting there being sold something by a tech evangelist. + +When we started in 2012, there was very little going on. Now, you have, in or around Cardiff: + +* [Cardiff Tech Talk](http://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-Tech-Talk/) +* [DevOps Cardiff](http://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Cardiff/) +* [SQL Cardiff](http://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-SQL-Server-User-Group) +* [Cardiff R User Group](http://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-R-User-Group) +* [Design Stuff Cardiff](http://www.thisisdesignstuff.com/cardiff/) +* [South Wales Agile Group](http://www.meetup.com/South-Wales-Agile-Group/) +* [Games Wales](https://twitter.com/gameswalessouth) +* [Digital Tuesday](https://twitter.com/DigiTuesday) +* [SWLUG](http://swlug.org.uk/) +* [diff.NET](http://www.meetup.com/diff-NET/) + +I'm bound to have missed some off, that's just from a quick scan of our [South Wales tech meetups twitter list](https://twitter.com/unifieddiff)... So that leads us on to - is Unified Diff still relevant and necessary? Two factors suggest that it may not be. Firstly, if people aren't volunteering to speak, we can't be the community event we set out to be. Secondly, there are now a large number of meetups, so - achievement unlocked? Mission accomplished? + +We are, however, still getting solid numbers of attendees (20 to 30 usually), so for now, we've decided to keep it going but only having a meeting every other month. + +Feel free to [tweet us](https://twitter.com/unifieddiff) and let us know what you think. Our [next event is scheduled for Thursday September 17th](http://www.meetup.com/unified-diff/events/224469697/). + +- [@gavD_UK](https://twitter.com/gavd_UK), August 2015 diff --git a/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md b/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7420e1c --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: September 2015 - sudo shutdown -h now +--- + +Although we talked about going to an [every other month format](http://unifieddiff.co.uk/blog/2015/08/07/bi-monthly-format.html), this week's Unified Diff might be our last... + +No big deal, no-one mad, no-one jelly, all toys still safely in prams. Here are our reasons: + +1. There are now plenty of meetups in Cardiff and we're not here to compete. +1. We are all mega busy with family and jobs and it's become a bit of a grind to keep the event going. +1. It's really hard to get speakers. People just aren't coming forwards. +1. It's just not quite as fun as it was when we started out. + +We're not shutting anything down permanently; we'll be like King Arthur and his knights, we're not ruling out a comeback. We might do the odd event if the opportunity arises. + +So, come along to our [next (final?) event](http://www.meetup.com/unified-diff/events/224469697/) and share some of your Unified Diff memories! It's been a fun ride. + +September 2015 + +- [@craigmarvelley](https://twitter.com/craigmarvelley) +- [@gavD_UK](https://twitter.com/gavd_UK) +- [@handybitesize](https://twitter.com/handybitesize) +- [@jenko](https://twitter.com/jenko) +- [@rodnaph](https://twitter.com/rodnaph) +- [@woogoose](https://twitter.com/woogoose) diff --git a/blog/_posts/2017-02-09-rebirth.md b/blog/_posts/2017-02-09-rebirth.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9cba5ae --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/_posts/2017-02-09-rebirth.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: February 2017 - we came back! +--- + +Without much fanfare, but with plenty of nods of approval, Udiff came back in the summer of 2016. + +If you read our [last blog post](http://unifieddiff.co.uk/blog/2015/09/16/sudo-shutdown-now.html) you may have seen us suggest "We might do the odd event if the opportunity arises." +and that's exactly what's happened! It seems that a meetup every few months (roughly quarterly) seems much more attainable. +The goal when we started Unified Diff was to try and be the catalyst for more tech meetups in +and around Cardiff and there are [some](https://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-Tech-Talk/) [great](https://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-Go-Meetup/) [meetups](https://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-SEO-Meet/) [out](https://www.meetup.com/UmbCardiff/) [there](https://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-R-User-Group/) [now](https://www.meetup.com/South-Wales-Agile-Group/), so going to a quarterly meetup just makes sense. + +[Tonight](https://www.meetup.com/unified-diff/events/236816719/) (9th Feb 2017) is our third meetup since the revival and hopefully there will be many more but on a more +infrequent basis. + +Which means that we're looking for speakers again! So please [get in touch](https://twitter.com/unifieddiff) if you have a talk you'd like to give +or demo of some cool thing you're working on or anything else you think will interest an IT crowd. + +The other good news is we've managed to secure a great new venue thanks to the kind folks at [Bipsync](https://www.bipsync.com/). So if you haven't +joined our revival yet, why not come along tonight! (or next time if you're reading this after the fact!) diff --git a/videos.html b/videos.html index 9445952..89e02b1 100755 --- a/videos.html +++ b/videos.html @@ -8,13 +8,31 @@
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16th July 2015

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Go Mad for Monads

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Warren Seymour - @woogoose

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Salty Goodness

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Matt Willsher - hello@willsher.systems

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18th June 2015

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The Tale of The Million Dollar Homepage

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Gavin Davies - @gavD_UK

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Knowing your Rs from your elbow

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Steph Locke - @SteffLocke

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21st May 2015

My heart began to sync

Craig Marvelley - @craigmarvelley

Next-level functional Javascript with Ramda

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Comin soon...

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Warren Seymour - @woogoose

19th March 2015