What good user groups are out there in London?

Question

Just a quick question - what good user groups are there in London? I really want to up my game as a developer and it'd be nice to meet some other passionate developers in person.

I'm interested in:-

• .net
• C#
• F#
• Ruby
• Scheme/Lisp
• Compilers
• Linux
• Anything geeky really!!

Answer 1

There is a dot net user group

http://iancooper.brinkster.net/Pages/UG_Meetings.aspx

also skillsmatters offer a lot of free things, though I have never been to any of them :(

http://skillsmatter.com/

Answer 2

Unfortunately you just missed the London ALT.NET Conference. But there is still an active ALT.NET group in London.

The ALT.NET UK group is a great group of talented and dedicated individuals doing some awesome things including some of the things you mentioned. I highly recommend you get in touch with them and maybe attend one of their recurring events (ALT.NET London Beer Night, etc).

Here's their home page: http://www.altnetuk.com/

Here's their mailing list: http://newsriver.altnetuk.com/

Here's a combined blog feed of ALT.NET UK-related stuff: http://newsriver.altnetuk.com/

Here's the wiki from the conference they just had: http://www.altnetpedia.com/London%20Alt.Net.UK%202nd%20Feb%202008.ashx

Answer 3

• http://pizzaonrails.com/ - RoR community meetup
• http://flag-and-bell.com/ - falls in anything geeky category

Answer 4

There are two that I have been to:

• JAVAWUG
• London Java Meetup

Answer 5

Extreme Tuesday Club

Answer 6

Though you didn't list PHP, I figured others reading the question might be interested in PHP London - they have monthly pub meets and an annual conference.