WE E K LY N E W SL E TT ER

ISSUE 02 SEPTEMBER 2011

Hi LSR member, We have announced the various meetups & events being planned till the end of this year to help you plan your attendance and help us in organising the same. We are planning meetups on CrowdSourcing, Social Media, Mobile App Hackathon Weekend, Big Business meets Startup and our Investor Day. We hope to see you at some of these meetups. Do let us know if you would like us to organise meetups on any other subject or topic. We are also looking for Sponsors, Technology Partners, Program Partners & Volunteers for our Junior TechMeetups Program for High schools & Colleges which we will be piloting in two institutes from Sep. Do let us know if you would like to get involved in any way.

UPCOMING EVENTS London Silicon Roundabout September Meetup Cloud Base September 8, 2011 (Thursday) 6:00 PM Open Kitchen Hackney Community College, 40 Hoxton Street, London N1 6LR This meetup is currently fully booked & waiting list is available! [ RSVP HERE ] We are glad to announce that MongoDB, ElasticHosts, Elance, DataArt, and Arjuna have signed up to present at Cloud Base. Cloud Base is sponsored by CloudBees.

04-Sep: London Binary Battle Hackathon 05-Sep: In The Brain of Matthew Baxter-Reynolds 05-Sep: Seedcamp Week 2011 05-Sep: Content Strategy Forum 2011 06-Sep: Object-oriented Programming in JavaScript 07-Sep: Ladies Who Code UK meetup 07-Sep: UKTI Pitch Workshop 08-Sep: Late Summer BBQ 08-Sep: Adobe HTML5 Camp 08-Sep: MozPub - for the mozilla festival 08-Sep: Refresh Edinburgh Talks, September 2011 09-Sep: Startup Weekend London 2011 If you have an Event you would like to promote let us know

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Have a great weekend! Rgds, Shawn London Silicon Roundabout