<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The date is: Monday 9th January</blockquote><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div>Obviously, the date is _actually_: Monday 9th **February**. There hasn't been a Monday 9th January since 2023 (the lag on the list isn't years-scale) and there won't be another until 2034 (although it'd be nice to have 8 years of content queued up).</div><div><br></div><div>This was a test. I failed. You passed.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 at 21:58, Murray Steele <<a href="mailto:murray.steele@gmail.com">murray.steele@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>We're happy to announce that we've managed to source a venue and so we can have our annual lightning talks evening without resorting to zoom. Yay!</div><div><br></div><div>The date is: Monday 9th January</div><div>The time is: 6:30pm to 8pm for the talks, 8pm onwards for drinks and chat, 6pm doors.</div><div>The venue is: Carwow in their offices on Bressenden Place which is between Victoria station and Buckingham Palace (fancy!)</div><div>The agenda is: 8 lightning talks!</div><div><br></div><div>Admittedly, the agenda is currently incomplete, at only 3 confirmed talks:</div><div><br></div><div>* "Automating Feature Flag Cleanup with AI" by Niall Mullally</div><div>* "Why you might like some Truffle with your Ruby" by Lorenzo Barasti</div><div>* "THE BLOB MUST DIE! – How we destroyed a 1400-line monster" by Scott Matthewman</div><div><br></div><div>But we do have 3 other volunteers that we're just confirming details with before announcing. </div><div><br></div><div>This leaves space for 2 more talks and one of them could definitely be you! We'd love to hear whatever it is you want to say, as long as you can say it in less than 10 minutes. (If you need more than 10 minutes, get in touch anyway as we can pencil you in for March, April, May etc...).</div><div><br></div><div>Full details on the website at <a href="https://lrug.org/meetings/2026/february/" target="_blank">https://lrug.org/meetings/2026/february/</a> and if you're super keen you can immediately register your place at <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/lrug/2036194" target="_blank">https://www.tickettailor.com/events/lrug/2036194</a> - spaces are limited so do get on this! Just remember to read the code of conduct at <a href="https://readme.lrug.org/#code-of-conduct" target="_blank">https://readme.lrug.org/#code-of-conduct</a> when do you.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks massively to Carwow for providing the space, and all our volunteers for offering their time. Can't wait to see you all there in a couple of weeks!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Murray & the rest of the organising team</div></div>
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