This month we asked people to tell us something that happened because of their attendance at a previous event. We were really impressed with what people had to say, some of these are listed here:

• Gained confidence in public speaking. Since my talk at Super Mondays I have gone on to talk at a local seminar helping businesses
• I’ve found some contract work probably/possibly because of knowing people through SuperMondays.
• Connected with other developers in NE.
• After a talk in the pub got a job with a company and went on to develop an application for them – would not have got that without SuperMondays!
• SM gave me my first experience of public speaking, because of this I realised it was both nothing to fear and something I actually enjoy, and have gone on to give more talks & presentations since.
• visited other user groups in the north east, woken up to the NE tech community, there’s lots going on.
• learnt lots of interesting stuff and met lots of interesting people
• met some very interesting people;
• attended jboss and drupal groups
• Met lots of cool tech people. Got my new job.
• I became active in more local IT user groups eg JBOSS user group, Drupal user group, and events like Dorkbot, Datarama, Geekiest drink, Howduino by hearing about them through Supermondays contacts or forum. Some of the events have contained ideas I can put into practice immediately eg UX, messaging, freelancing, whereas others have either been thought provoking or caused me to find out more about the subject eg Software Testing, the Difference Engine. I stimulated the local economy by spending more money in the bar at the Trent pub than I otherwise would The payoff was some high quality technical discussion with like minded people.
• Kept in touch with local friends and tech industry players; kept up-to-date with key trends; had my eyes opened to new topics; met new people

The results show that people benefited by meeting like-minded people who  introduced them to new technologies, job prospects and other user groups. We were very happy to hear this….long may it continue.

Our speaker presentations are:

The event took place at the Baltic Campus of Gateshead College. We are very grateful to Gateshead College for the help in hosting this event.

• Ian Oxley: HTML5 form validation
• Michael Peacock: Jenkins Continuous Integration tool
• Alex Kavanagh: A whirlwind history of copyright and what it means for the 21st century
• Jonathan Dixon: web sockets and Web Data Storage
• Gregory Marler: OpenStreetMap.org: Not just a pretty web map, using the raw data. Featuring elephants, table tennis, and toilets.
• Mark Stairmand: UX challenges for application developers
• Ross Cooney: Messaging idioms.
• Richard Powell: HTML5 Canvas
• Matthew Peacock: Scala

Stuart Holmes wrote the following review:
http://www.xero-g.co.uk/trubru/2011/05/supermondays-lightning-talks-a-review/

1. Peter Bull — Developing ZuneCardr, a Windows 7 mobile app
2. Sam Harrison — Mapping a different way
3. Audrius Jankauskas – web CMSs and related technologies
4. Ross Dargan — An introduction to Flex-Raid
5. Aidan Garnish — An introduction to the concept of time banking
6. Bobby Patterson — happiest
7. Adrià Mercader — Customised web maps
8. Derek Frost — Development using the Spring framework

Oli and James from Memory Merge have written this excellent review of the evening:
http://blog.memorymerge.com/post/3047211319/supermondays-reflash-talks

Stuart Holmes also wrote this excellent review:
http://www.xero-g.co.uk/trubru/

Paul from Web Design Futures wrote these words:
http://paul.webdesignfutures.co.uk/2011/02/super-mondays/

We want to thank our sponsors, Newcastle University and Codeworks Connect.

To celebrate what has been a great year for SuperMondays, the team behind your favourite lo-fi hi-tech monthly get together have decided to throw a SuperSummer Soiree we are sure you are going to love. It’s a great opportunity for us all to celebrate making this year such a success and to our headline sponsors, Northern Film and Media and Sunderland Software City, for helping to make it all possible.

We have planned a fantastic evening for all of our regulars, along with family and friends. Think British summer garden party meets New York style roof top block party and you get the idea. Our generous hosts will be creative agency Fusebox Design whose beautiful city centre office provides the perfect location for us all to enjoy sizzling bbq food, pretty cocktails and ice cold beers. There will also be some live music from some very special guests and a fine film or four!

This magically secretive venue will be our weather proof haven – as let’s face it, there may well be rain – where you will be able to catch up with friends and make a hat full of new ones too. Fusebox Design’s offices are also a hop, skip and a jump from lots of pubs should you wish to continue the fun after the SuperMonday’s party has wound down.

We hope you can join us..

For further information please contact the organisers, Sailor Girl Ltd, here.

This month we were back in the Culture Lab at Newcastle University. The event was really well atended by over 120

people and we had four excellent speakers, including:

• Paul Easton
• Laura Maddison
• Rob Lavender
• Lee Simpson

We are very grateful to the Culture Lab, Newcastle University and our platinum Sponsors Sunderland Software City and Northern Film & Media.

You can watch the videos and slide decks below:

Tim Nash

Dom Hodgson

Thanks to our platinum sponsors NorthernNet, Northern Film and Media and Sunderland Software City.

The following presentations were given:

We are very grateful to Gateshead Council for allowing us to use the venue, NorthernNet for being our platinum sponsor and all of our silver sponsors, including Microsoft, Everycity, StormMQ, OPSource, emailcloud and Arjuna.

After his presentation John was joined by colleague Anthony Hicks (@anthonyxcom), Jon Nairn (@jonstep, working for @neverodd), Alex Reid (@alexjreid) and Peter Bull (@RoguePlanetoid) for a panel Q&A session.

General points of note from the session and pub discussions:

• Perhaps surprising to some, the iPhone market accounts for a small proportion of mobile devices, and Android mobiles are apparently selling at twice the rate of iPhone.
• iPhone users are generally more comfortable with app purchasing, and represent a more general consumer demographic.
• Submissions and updates are developer-driven for Android, so app deployment can be rapid- especially when compared to Apple’s approval process.
• Development for the less popular platforms may attract incubation or start-up funding.
• Some high-qualify third-party technology exists for integration, e.g. Bump, OpenFeint.
• Commercially, producing good middleware may be a better gamble than a good app.
• Windows Phone 7 Series sounds promising.

Thank you to everybody who attended and James for allowing me to plagiarise his write-up ;)

Alex Reid:

Lorna Jane Mitchell:

Thank you to Alex and Lorna along with our sponsors Northern Film and Media, Sunderland Software City and Newcastle University.