LSX 2009 Leeds Web Festival

LSx
2009 (the second Leeds Web Festival) got off to a great start earlier
this week with the the May edition of OpenCoffee, the Digital Britain unconference as well as a meetup of
the Leeds Hackspace community.

We have lots more
planned, throughout the remainder of May - notably around the last weekend with
BarCamp 2009, Future of Web Apps, Girl Geek Dinner & Physical Computing
101.

5th may opencoffee leeds
A coffee + cakes morning meetup bringing together designers,
developers, entrepreneurs, media professionals and academics.

5th may digital britain unconference
One of a series of spontaneously self organising Digital Britain Unconferences
to be held around the UK. The aim of the unconferences is to develop a
coherent response from the digitally literate user community to the draft Digital Britain report.

12th may innovation north 2009 showcase
Leeds Met's undergraduate expo, showcasing the work of this year's
graduating class in music technology, sound, games design, animation,
special effects, creative media and computing.

19th may hackspace
Hackspace is an alternative term for Hackerspaces,
a physical place where anybody with an interest in technology can meet
up, socialize and collaborate on project within a vast range of
technologies and languages.

20th may geekup
An evening social of internet industry workers, including a trio of brief 20:20 talks - Clare Lindley on Creating iPhone apps with PhoneGap, Phil Helliwell on What your BIG-IP can do for you & Jonathan "Squigfried" Powell on Hack Spaces, and why having one in Leeds will be awesome.

27th may girl geek dinner
An evening buffet accompanied by keynote speakers representing the best femalte talents in the technology sector. Seedcamp CEO, Reshma Sohoni, and Democracy PR's founder, Jennifer O'Grady
will be one of the featured speakers, with around 70 guests drawn from
the city's most talented and respected female professionals in creative
and digital.

28th may future of web apps tour
Ryan Carson's renowned conference comes to Leeds for the first time, at
the city's newly opened Rose Bowl. The theme is Cloud Computing - with
speakers from Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce.

29th may physical computing 101
tinker.it
an innovative consultancy that's bringing together the physical and
digital worlds through creative technologies will be leading a day long
Beginner's Guide to Arduino, to help novices and experts alike learn
how to build small electronic widgets!

30-31st may cupcake camp
A weekend of cake--related debauchery - bringing together the ancient
elemental power of sugar, cream & flour in an orgy of cakey
goodness! Eight master bakers will battle to the death - to win your
confection affection - only one will prevail, while others will be
sacrified on a moist, spongy altar...dripping with jam.

30-31st may barcamp leeds {2009}
BarCamp Leeds is the city's third 'unconference', a event where the
folks that attend create the programme of sessions themselves. BarCamps
are open, participatory, democratic, 'workshop' events; the organisers
and sponsors simply provide wireless broadband, a venue, beverages and
food! The attendees provide the content - and the buzz.

3rd june exposure leeds
The city's photographic community is supporting LSx by running 60-90
minute workshops photography workshops with a technological bias - some
topics might include Flickr, Photoshop, HDR, PhotoSynth and Lightroom.