Competa organizes regular events at the conference centre, with technical presentations that will be of interest to technical IT staff. The events are held in the evening to make it easy for people to attend, and food and drinks are provided for free. Recent presentations have included IPv6, Open Solaris, Research Infrastructure, FreeBSD, Embedded systems, timekeeping, Web performance analysis, Puppet, Wireless, ZFS IPQoS Python and Django. Located at our offices in Rijswijk and easy to reach by …

Who are we? We are the Belgium Web Performance Group. We meet monthly to discuss various topics related to Web Performance, both front-end and back-end. We are one of the local entity as you have already many in the world (San Francisco, New York, etc...) Why is this so important? Multiple studies have shown a direct correlation between web site performance and the bottom line: +100ms → -1% sales (Amazon) * +400ms → -5-9% full-page traffic (Yahoo! Autos front page) ** +500ms → -20% searches …

One of the most enjoyable things of being a developer is that you can quickly make stuff work together. Getting to know other tinkerers is a great experience. It helps get new ideas, blow off steam and show off new tricks. Apart from all that it's important to share food and drinks with like-minded people. Combine all this into an early exit from work, followed by an evening of hacking, eating and drinking with other makers. Would be awesome, right? So why not join the next time?

We are a group of Ruby enthusiasts based in and around the city of The Hague. Our goals are to create a network of Ruby users, share knowledge and promote the usage of Ruby.