List of programming related conferences, unConference and meet-ups in the UK?

Question

I really enjoy attending unconference/BarCamp type events and getting to meet developers, designers etc. from different backgrounds and sharing ideas in person.

However, I have trouble finding events as there does not seem to be one place where they are listed. Does anyone know of such a place?

I also want to setup a Google Technology User Group in Bristol but again other that putting it on Linkedin, Facebook, Meetup.com etc. I don't really know how to get the information out to what would essentially be a niche group of developers. Any ideas?

Answer 1

There is a list on wikipedia of "computer science conferences". Actually it's a category page, so there has to be page for the conference too (at least a stub).

I'm not sure it's a great place to casually find out about conferences, and it's certainly far from complete - but maybe we just need to get more people updating it. It's also not regionalised and I'm not sure it could easily be made so. Maybe someone should start a page listing conferences broken down by region, with a little description and a link to either the conf. site or another wikipedia page on the conference itself.

One conference of particular note that is missing from there is the ACCU conference - coming up next month in Oxford.

Answer 2

In the end I created a shared google calendar where I just add any local events I find out about and made it available on a webpage: http://www.bristol-gtug.org/?page_id=133. If anyone else would like permission to add events you are more than welcome, please let me know.