Multipack Birmingham

Saturday 14th Jan, The Old Joint Stock, Birmingham, 2pm-6pm

Come for a drink, and a bite to eat with one of the friendliest communities of web professionals, geeks and techies from across the West Midlands, to discuss code, standards, technology, and share our knowledge and experiences.

Follow @multipack for updates.

More info on Birmingham Meetup

Multipack Leamington - Special Event

Sunday Jan 22nd, 7pm to 11pm

Following her appearance at New Adventures in January, Denise Jacobs will be coming to a special Leamington Multipack event at our usual haunt, the White Horse. Organised by Leamington Multipack regular Nivi Morales, the night promises to be one full of our regular Leamington cheer.

This event will be running from 7pm to 11pm, so even if you’re not from Leamington or Warwick, why not pop over to have a chat with the author of The CSS Detective Guide and speaker at events such as SXSW, Future of Web Design, Voices That Matter: Web Design and Interlink.

The White Horse serve a fine Sunday Roast too, so if you’re in town for the day, stop in for something to eat and stay for a drink, a chat and a catch-up with the Leamington Multipack regulars.

Multipack Staffordshire

16th Jan, Littleton Arms, Penkridge, 7.30pm

A local midweek offshoot of the Multipack, join us for a midweek drink and an optional bite to eat, as we discuss all things web, geek and tech in Staffordshire and the surrounding areas.

More info on Staffordshire Meetup

Multipack Presents with Show and Tell

11th Feb, Science Park Aston, 2pm onwards

Presents and Show and Tell will be returning in 2012, kicking off in February with a “From Side-Project to Business” themed event, and we’re pleased to announce that we’ve lined up some terrific keynote speakers for our first event of the year:

- Elliot Jay Stocks will be talking about all things from 8 Faces to Viewport Industries

- Joel Gascoigne will be talking, via Skype from wherever he happens to be at the time, about the popular startup Buffer.

Attendance is free, as ever, but we’ll be using Eventbrite to gauge numbers for the event – head over to Eventbrite where you can get a free ticket for all of 2012’s Presents and Show and Tell events, or put £50 in the refreshments kitty by purchasing a Sponsor ticket.

New event: Birmingham Girl Geek Dinners

Launching this January, a new event for women in tech and geek related fields!

More in on the Girl Geek Dinner Lanyrd and their blog

New Event: Mobile Monday

A new event for anybody in the Midlands with an interest in mobile technology and the business opportunities it creates:

Mobile Monday Info

New Adventures

Plenty of Multipack folks are heading along to New Adventures in Web Design in Nottingham this month. Talk to @abitgone about the bowling team for the social…

Hydrahack

7th Feb, Urban Coffee Co, Birmingham

An after work opportunity to get together, drink coffee and code something cool.

More info on Hydra Hack

Wordpress Meetup

11th Jan, Old Joint Stock, Birmingham

For all people who use and develop for the popular blogging platform. A meetup with drinks, tips and chat.

More on the Wordpress Meetup

Hubmag

Multipack regular Trovster mentioned the launch of this Telford magazine. Somebody familiar is doing the film reviews

E4f Co-working Space

Our friends E4f at Science Park Aston have opened up their co-working space with a variety of membership levels. It’s a great hub for techy, game and web firms and would suit anybody starting out in those sectors.

More info at E4F

T-Shirts

Ant is organising some Multipack T-Shirts. Price will be between £20-£25 depending on how many are ordered. Sizes Small to XXXL, very large sizes may be slightly more expensive.

Price includes shirt, printing and postage for pickup at a Multipack Birmingham or Leamington event. Additional postage will apply if you want it posting to an address of your choosing.

The design is a simple, one colour screen print featuring the Multipack logo on the front chest pocket area of the t-shirt, and larger on the back. Black, Red, Maroon, Navy Blue, Olive, Brown, Royal Blue, Charcoal and Green are available. (see an example).

We’d like to get the t-shirts ordered, printed and delivered in time for the February event, so will need numbers by January 20th and money collected by January 27th.If anyone would like one, send an email to multipack at abitgone.co.uk

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Multipack Hacks… The Planet

Saturday 20th of February, 10am - 6pm
Offices of One Black Bear, Fazeley Studios

A hackday event about building things to reduce our industry’s environmental impact. Just bring some ideas and a willingness to design, write copy or code!

Can we reduce the landfill-destined swag at conferences with a web app? Can we lower our carbon footprint by highlighting local conferences? These and other ideas to be explored!

There’ll be food and drink courtesy of our kind sponsors Campaign Monitor.

For more information see a.green:focus and upcoming for event signup.

Kicking Off the F1

Si has been busy again with his Microformat-enriched series of sports sites. So if you’re a fan of Rugby or Formula One you should check out Six Nations Kickoff and F1 Calendar to keep up-to-date with all the important dates.

Government Data a Go-Go

You probably heard about the launch of Data.gov.uk earlier in the month, but there’s a Birmingham connection to this new site. Local company Talis provided the semantic web platform which hosts lots of the data. Read more on their Nodalities Blog.

Evolution of a Python Programmer

Funny if you do code, plus bonus linguistic jape for those who don’t.