{"id":544,"date":"2007-05-08T10:27:44","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T09:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2007-05-16T22:34:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T21:34:50","slug":"fest07-23rd-may-2007-reading-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"FEST07 &#8211; 23rd May 2007, Reading, UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FEST07 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtgenug.net\/fest07\">http:\/\/www.nxtgenug.net\/fest07<\/a>), the one-day Developer event organised by those NxtGen Boyz: Rich, Dave and John, is just around the corner.   <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s on May 23rd at Microsoft UK in Reading and the headline speaker is the outstanding <strong>Rafal Lukawiecki <\/strong>who has topped the polls at TechEd for the last 7 years.  He&#8217;s speaking twice and will be talking about Vista Security and Future Trends in Software Architecture.  The other speakers are look pretty good too, with <strong>Oliver Sturm, Mike Taulty<\/strong> and <strong>Daniel Moth <\/strong>being joined by <strong>Lorna Brown <\/strong>of Microsoft Research which should be a really interesting session.  The Boyz are also going to do one of their &#8216;gameshows&#8217; as a finale in which I understand large amounts of &#8216;swag&#8217; will be handed out.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a member of NxtGenUG its a free event. If you&#8217;re not a member its a measly \u00a359.99 for a day of information, fun, food and of course &#8216;swag&#8217;.  It&#8217;s not a Microsoft funded event, and the guys have to cover some costs of speakers and incidentals.  To register just go the NxtGenUG site <a href=\"http:\/\/nxtgenug.net\/fest07\">http:\/\/nxtgenug.net\/fest07<\/a>, its all pretty simple.  Any probs drop them a line at <strong>enquiries@nxtgenug.net<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This looks like it&#8217;s going to be special and different event, best get along &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh there is also a Geek Dinner the night before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimakki.com\/wiki\/Fest07GeekDinner.ashx\">http:\/\/www.zimakki.com\/wiki\/Fest07GeekDinner.ashx <\/a>is Zi Makki&#8217;s Wiki, and you can go to this even if your&#8217;e not attending the event itself. <\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/FEST07\" rel=\"tag\">FEST07<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/NxtGenUG\" rel=\"tag\">NxtGenUG<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Event\" rel=\"tag\">Event<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Community\" rel=\"tag\">Community<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Reading\" rel=\"tag\">Reading<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/TVP\" rel=\"tag\">TVP<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Rafal+Lukawiecki\" rel=\"tag\">Rafal Lukawiecki<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Oliver+Sturm\" rel=\"tag\">Oliver Sturm<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Mike+Taulty\" rel=\"tag\">Mike Taulty<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Daniel+Moth\" rel=\"tag\">Daniel Moth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Lorna+Brown\" rel=\"tag\">Lorna Brown<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/swag\" rel=\"tag\">swag<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/geekdinner\" rel=\"tag\">geekdinner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Zi+Makki\" rel=\"tag\">Zi Makki<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEST07 (http:\/\/www.nxtgenug.net\/fest07), the one-day Developer event organised by those NxtGen Boyz: Rich, Dave and John, is just around the corner. It&#8217;s on May 23rd at Microsoft UK in Reading and the headline speaker is the outstanding Rafal Lukawiecki who has topped the polls at TechEd for the last 7 years. He&#8217;s speaking twice and will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FEST07 &#8211; 23rd May 2007, Reading, UK<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-developer-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}