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George and Rob will be hosting NoSQL NoCON, a half day non-conference by the pool at Bonnet Creek Hilton in Orlando on Wednesday March 24th from 1pm.

When? - 25th March 2009

Where? - Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa, Phoenix, Arizona

George James Software and M/Gateway Developments will host the next in their popular and unique series of Out of the Slipstream conferences. Speakers will be drawn from various international businesses to give their slant on 'the cloud'.

Not only will you be enthralled by thought-provoking presentations, but we are planning some good old British fun for the evening. Watch this space for news and details of how to secure your place.

Colossus, arguably the first digital computer, was created at Bletchley Park during WWII. In keeping with the spirit of this, we are inviting everyone to bring along items of old computing capability. If you have any old bits of computer equipment (early PCs, adding machines) or related relics (log tables, sliderules, magnetic tape, punched cards, etc) hidden away in your attic or garage, please bring them along. There will be a small display area where everyone will be able to view and discuss these items during the day.

Work is underway to bring you the next UK Out of the Slipstream event. We've found another exciting and fitting venue where many a breakthrough has been made in the past. It was the hub of secret communications during the war and was saved from the clutches of housing developers by a team of volunteers who've turned it into a museum housing, amongst other things, the first semi-programmable computer. Got it yet?

We're going to spend the day in the comfort of the Mansion at Bletchley Park, a far cry from the draughty huts where hundreds of people worked on state of the art machines decyphering enemy messages during the war. We're in the process of finalising the programme and it's shaping up very nicely indeed.

We'll have the opportunity to visit the exhibitions in the huts including the computer museum. How many of the exhibits will you recognise as having worked with in the past? The evening meal will be taken in the Library in the Mansion and we're very excited about the guest speaker who will join us there (and he's not one of the people in George's photograph on the Next Events page!).

Details about the programme, the speakers and how to register will be posted soon.