Just received this email via MKLUG, might be of interest to some on here (Valiant mainly)
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O'Reilly invites you to Mashed 2008
tickets now available and they are free!
Mashed - it's Hack Day time again and this year the BBC have got a corker of a weekend planned.
Arrive on the Saturday morning and listen to real people from the development world showing you how to build things and how to use the systems that will be available to you through-out the weekend - including a full broadcast TV station with the ability to build and hack your own interactive applications. - see
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2008/05/mashed_2008_tic.htmlThe BBC kindly gave O'Reilly 100 tickets. So please book now on
http://mashed08.eventbrite.com/ and make sure that you have a place at the weekend of the year.
Date:
Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 9:00 am
To:
Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Venue:
Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace Way
Wood Green
London, London N22 7AY
United Kingdom
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