This weeks a good one for the tech fans with CPH Xamarin Developers, a talks in Malmö on Python and Neo4j. The week finishes with a beer-filled Friday with Copenhagen’s weekly Silicon Drinkabout and the ever popular Bitcoin Friday Bar.

Copenhagen

Monday December 8th
The Copenhagen Django Group – 8th Meetup
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm, @ Founders, Indiakaj 12
It’s round 8 of Django the “high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design” This time, Benjamin Bach will talk about, “strategies for refactoring and migrating a big old project to be multilingual and use multiple databases”

Wednesday December 10th
Growing Games #9 – Pitch Competition
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, @ Danish Film Institute, Gothersgade 55
The grand prize usually includes a trip to the next year’s GDC – Game Developer Conference – in San Francisco.
CPH Xamarin Developers
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm, @ 24-7 Entertainment, Gothersgade 12
Xamarin is “cross-platform development software which simplifies mobile application creation”.This is their very first meetup so they haven’t picked a topic yet.(Pro-tip: get involved now, and you can help pick.)

Thursday December 11th
Concordion – An Alternative to Gherkin Based Tools
5:00 pm – 7:30 pm, @ LIFTOFF, Suomisvej 2
Julian May, System Developer at Spectra Systems, will talk about specification workshops and demonstrate alternatives to gherkin based Behavior Driven Development tools using Concordion as a case, followed by a general conversation about BDD tools. Reload will sponsor with food and beer.
Scrum Forum w/ Jeff Sutherland & Jens Østergaard
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, @ Trifork A/S, Borgergade 24 (1. sal)
You can’t say Agile without someone saying Scrum. Check out this event, if you want to hear what it’s all about from one of the people who thought it up in the first place: Jeff Sutherland ‘invented’ Scrum.

Friday December 12th
Bitcoin Friday Bar
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, @ Musen og Elefanten, Vestergade 21
The delightfully straightforward “talk Bitcoin, drink beer” concept returns.Tap beer, bottle beer and some drinks are only 20,- DKK and, of course, you can pay in Bitcoin.
Silicon Drinkabout
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, @ location tbd
Kick it after a hardworking week with like-minded, innovative spirits!

Malmö

Monday December 8th
Minc/Talks with Navid Modiri: Allt är påhittat – bli en sån som hittar på(SWE)
8:30 am – 10:00 am, @ Minc, Anckargripsgatan 3
A lecture on creativity, breaking the mold and going your own way.

Tuesday December 9th
Skåne Python UG War story: Switching to Python
17:30 pm – 20:00 pm, @ Foo Café, Stora Varvsgatan 6a
“Python is an extremely versatile language. It is used for everything from running on a chip, creating web applications, automating native applications, machine learning to analyzing scientific data.” Sounds like the perfect opportunity to learn from the best!

Thursday December 11th
Neo4j meetup Impossible is Nothing by Jim Webber, Neo4j’s Chief Scientist
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm, @ Foo Café, Stora Varvsgatan 6a
Database folk are in luck this month! Jim will cover some “impossible use cases made possible by graph technology: from high volume and personalised real-world logistics through to advanced access security and permissions in computer systems…”

Friday December 12th
Creative Mornings: David Cuartielles talks about Education
8:00 am – 9:00 am, @ Foo Café, Stora Varvsgatan 6a
Doors open at 8am for breakfast fika, 20min talk with MSC. telecommunications engineer David Cuartielles begins at 8:20, with a chance for questions and networking afterwards before finishing at 9am.

Helsingborg

Tuesday December 9th
Guerilla Office #guerillaoffice (ENG/SWE)
8:00 am – 5:00 pm, @ Mindpark, Bredgatan 11
Show up. Work. It’s that simple.
OpenLab – Come and create stuff!
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm, @ Creativelab, Mindpark, Bredgatan 11
No registration needed, just turn up and make something cool.
Kroppskännedom (SWE)
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm, @ CreativeLab Bredgatan 11
Find an effective and relaxed aura, get in touch with your breathing rhythms and fill yourself with mindfulness; try this through simple exercises along with Lise Enochsson, MD. physiotherapist who works with a focus on body awareness.

Have we missed anything? Let us know!