Multipack

A Community of Web Developers & Designers in Birmingham

Welcome to the March edition of the newsletter for Midlands webby types. This month there’re quite a few new events going on in Brum, as well as jobs that need filling.

March Newsletter

March Meetup

Share a pint or two with local web designers and developers! Discuss what’s happening in the industry, swap tips and tricks and generally enthuse about all things web! Likely topics of conversation include HTML5, CSS3, interaction design, PHP, Python, recent projects and writing web copy.

If you’re new, keep an eye on @multipack for last minute updates. More event info at Upcoming

Green Thanks

Thanks to everybody who turned up to ‘Hack the Planet’. There was a great atmosphere and some realy neat ideas. Two decent hacks were put together by the end of play. Write-up and live app demos to be confirmed shortly, but there’s a flickr pool of photos to be going on with.

Theatrics

The inimitable Matthew Somerville got in contact to mention his latest project - Theatricalia - a database of past, present and future theatre productions. Of interest to anybody who likes to tread the boards or see a good theatre played…

Jobs Galore!

Over at the forum there are several folks desperate to hire webby types! Jobs on offer include PHP Developers in Leamington and the Jewellery Quarter - and a Frontend Developer role too! So if you’re looking for something and match those skills, pop over to the forums for more info.

Brum Twestival

25th March at Poppy Red is Birmingham’s Twitter Festival thing, your chance to meet some virtual acquaintances in the flesh and raise some money for charity.

Launch 48

Launch48 aims to bring together participants from different backgrounds and levels of experience in the web industry to think/plan/develop and launch one or multiple web apps in one weekend.

Caffeinated Data

Paul Bradshaw, who runs the MA Online Journalism at BCU, is organising the first Brum #data Coffee on 11th March. For people who like their open data, mashups and a good roasted blend.