Dev8D dates and venue announced

Nov 14, 2009 by mahendra-mahey

DevCSI is proud to announce that following on from the very successful developer happiness days event in February of this year – the dates for the next year’s Dev8D event have been announced as Wednesday 24th (11.30am) – Saturday 27th (4pm) of February 2010. The event will be held in London and we will be directly involved in the organisation of the event!

This year’s gathering will run from Wednesday to Saturday with each day designed to stand alone (so you can pick which specific days you want to come) but they also fit together to provide a complete ‘dev8D’ experience (so you can come along to the whole thing). Learning from successful events like Barcamp London 7, Saturday was included in the event to expand the potential audience.

Free accommodation will be provided at a boutique hostel but places are limited, rooms are basic and will be  shared.

Last year’s Dev8D event produced some  exciting prototypes as part of the event and the dev8D competition winner, a reading list prototype called list8D has since been funded as a JISC rapid innovation project. An early version of the list8D reading list software has been released recently for others to experiment with.  Dev8D 2009 was mentioned in the Edgeless University Report produced by Demos as a good example of experimentation that can:

help uncover not only new educational tools but also new uses for educational materials, and can draw on the energy and ideas of new constituencies. (p 48)

The booking form for the event will be released soon and we look forward to seeing lots of people from this year as well as new people. In the planning of the event we have tried to listen to feedback from this year’s event and we hope next year’s Dev8D event will be even bigger and better. Hope to see you there!