<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;" id="internal-source-marker_0.17345573623049348">Hi all,</span><br>
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  As previously mentioned on this list, Qubit is hosting a talk on the 
Language of the Cloud at the end of this month as part of the Soho 
School Nights Series (you can stop reading here if this doesn't interest
 you).</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The event has now been finalised for Wednesday 20th July, and you can sign up here :</span><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Soho-School-Nights/events/24486531/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000099;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://www.meetup.com/Soho-School-Nights/events/24486531/</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/Soho-School-Nights/events/24486531/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000099;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;"></span></a><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Agenda</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">1830-1900- Food and Drinks Reception</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">1900-2015 - Speaker Slots</span><br>
<span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The provisional timetable is as follows:</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">7pm: Channing Walton: Scala</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">7.15: Ludwik Grodzki: Shell scripting and Hive</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">7.30: Thomas Fuller: Groovy and Grails</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">7.45: Ben Summers: JRuby</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">8pm: Paul Mardling: Java</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">2030-2115 - Battle of the languages</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">2115-2130 - Wrap Up</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">9130 - Pub (for anyone who would like to)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Speakers:</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Channing Walton: Technical Lead at UBS</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Channing
 has been working with Java technologies since 1995, in a range of 
industries but predominantly financial services and banking.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Over
 the last 3 years he's been interested in Scala and implemented the 
Scala bindings to the Fly Object Space as a first real-world project. 
The implementation was presented at the first ScalaDays in 2010.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Recently he's introduced Scala to UBS and is leading a new project implemented in Scala and Lift.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ludwik Grodzi: Head of Data Architecture at Qubit</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ludwik is a senior financial analyst who has previously worked for Sainsbury's and Google to analyse large data sets.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">He
 is currently responsible for designing a large proportion of the Qubit 
data flow using a combination of shell scripting and Hive.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Thomas Fuller: Managing Director at Coherent Logic</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Thomas
 Fuller is a software engineer with over 10 years experience, and the 
managing director of Coherent Logic, a Java and Grails consultancy.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Thomas
 also developed the Grails Infinispan plugin, allowing intergration of 
the JBoss Infinispan Data Grid with Grails applications.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ben Summers: Technical Director at ONEIS</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ben
 is Founder and Technical Director of ONEIS, a platform used to develop 
bespoke solutions for clients with complex information management 
challenges. Prior to ONEIS Ben worked as an IT consultant and freelance 
developer for over twelve years. Amongst his many "extra-curricular" 
activities Ben designed and launched BoxBackup.org, an open source 
backup system. Ben has used more languages and platforms than he cares 
to count, and is an advocate of choosing the right tools for the job.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Paul Mardling: Senior Technical Architect at ioko</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Paul
 has been working with Java since 1996, predominantly in the media and 
entertainment sector. He has worked on a number of high profile 
broadcaster websites and more recently on their video on demand 
offerings. He has recently delivered several Java based projects 
deployed on both private and public cloud infrastructures. Currently he 
is working on the design of a cloud deployed Java application utilising a
 MongoDB data store.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">If facebook is your thing, you can follow us for updates here:</span><br>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Soho-Schoolnights/215940875112085"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000099;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Soho-Schoolnights/215940875112085</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Also, If you know anyone else who might be interested in attending - feel free to pass on the invitation.</span>