There is a new event in town, Matt Booth is launching a monthly meetup for digital creatives in and around Manchester called Northern Digitals. It will be held the first Thursday of every month. There is a meetup group that you can join and stay upto date with events and members.

Event details

When: 7PM Thursday, October 2, 2008

Where: Socio Rehab, Edge St, Northern Quarter, Manchester

Cost: FREE, buy your own beer

What: A monthly meetup where digital creatives from in and around Manchester can get away from their screens and talk to other digital creatives.

There’s been an influx of jobs listed on the GeekUp Job Board recently and I just want to make sure the right people find them. The GeekUp Job board is a grassroots job board for the Design, Development, Technology and Web Industry in the UK. It’s completely FREE and doesn’t cost anything to post a job, and I try my darn hardest to keep it clear of posts from those *evil* recruiters. If your looking for a new job or fancy a change of career take a look at the jobs posted in August:

• Freelance Drupal Developer for Vanilla Storm Limited, Levenshulme (Flexible), Greater Manchester
• Ruby Music Services Developer for Playlouder MSP Ltd, London
• Experienced Director CD-Rom Developer for JP74, Padiham, Lancashire
• Web Developer for Ashley Bolser Agency, Leeds, West-Yorkshire
• Java Software Engineer for Mobysoft Ltd, Manchester City Centre, Greater Manchester
• PHP MySQL Web Developer for RetroFuzz Ltd, Manchester City Centre, Greater Manchester
• Web Designer for Flame Digital, Northern Quarter, Manchester, Greater Manchester
• Web Developer for Conferma, West Didsbury, Greater Manchester
• ASP NET Developer for Secret Volcano Lair Limited, Manchester, Greater Manchester
• Front End Freelance Developer x 2 for Numiko, Leeds, West-Yorkshire
• Junior Web Designer for Peppermint Digital, Hale, Cheshire
• Flash Developer for Russell Grant Astrology, Cheshire, Altrincham
• Web Designer / Developer for Russell Grant Astrology, Cheshire, Altrincham
• Freelance SEO and PPC Specialists for Code-Sign, Manchester
• Technical Lead for smartassess Ltd, Sheffield
• Senior Client Side Developer for BBC Future Media and Technology, London W12
• Freelancers Required for JWT Cheetham Bell, Manchester City Center, Greater Manchester
• Freelance Website Developer for MallmusMedia!, Portsmouth, Hampshire
• CPP MFC Developer for Turtlez Ltd, South Manchester, Greater Manchester
• Lead Web Applications Developer .NET for New Mind Internet Consultancy, Liverpool (City Centre), Merseyside
• Web Developer for Clearview Media, Hale, Cheshire
• Junior PHP Developer for CTISN, Manchester
• Senior PHP Developer for CTISN, Manchester
• Senior Ruby on Rails Developer for Whitespace, Barnsley, West-Yorkshire
• Search Marketing Consultant for PushON Ltd, Castlefield, Manchester
• Junior Web Designer for Peppermint Digital, Hale, Cheshire
• Front-End Developer for Code Computerlove, Manchester

It’s the last Thursday of the month and that means GeekUp Liverpool is happening so if your around the Mersey you should pop along for a geeky chat. I unfortunately can’t make this event due to workload but hopefully I’ll make the next Liverpool event.

Event Details

When

6:00 PM Thursday June 28th, 2007

Where

3345 Parr Street, Liverpool, L1 4JN

Description

This Month’s Talk - Unobtrusive JavaScript with Dave Verwer

With every site you visit piling on more and more JavaScript and Ajax, what happens when a user comes along using a screen reader or mobile device that would choke on even a simple alert()? How can we take advantage of the power of these technologies without providing any barriers to users, this session will cover techniques to ensure that you can still serve up rich content without excluding users, all from one code base.

Upcoming

Let us know if your attending on the upcoming.org event page.

Calling Leeds, Yorkshire based Designers/Developers/Geeks!

I’m really happy to announce that GeekUp has arrived in yet another city, this time Leeds. I’m grateful that Deb Basset has agreed to organise the Leeds events. Debs and her partner Rob have been attending the Manchester events non-stop since I met them at reboot last year. They drive a 3 hour round trip to Manchester how much more dedicated could a GeekUper be?

The inaugural GeekUp Leeds

When

6:00 PM Wednesday June 20th, 2007

Where

The Cross Keys 107 Water Lane, Leeds LS11 5WD

Description

The inaugural Leeds event!

Upcoming

Let us know if your attending on the upcoming.org event page.