Our first Manchester Meetup!

Welcome to Manchester's first MongoDB meetup!

The meetup will take place at MadLab in Manchester on the 29th April at 8pm, this will be a monthly event that we run the last Monday of every month over at MadLab, then from 9pm onwards, a local Manchester pub for Networking and further discussions!

Plus some awesome t-shirts are being provided by the lovely people from 10gen (awesome, right?!)

Agenda -

An introduction to MongoDB - Lightning Talk / Q&A

A flying introduction as to what MongoDB is, why it might benefit you, and some of the impressive features MongoDB has to offer.

Jacob Clark - @imjacobclark (http://twitter.com/imjacobclark)

New MongoDB 2.4 Features inlcuding Text Search - Lightning Talk

MongoDB 2.4 is now available and it comes with some rather impressive features! Derick is going to run through some of them and give us a talk on Text Searches within MongoDB.

Derick Rethans - @derickr (https://twitter.com/derickr)

MongoDB for Developers, Review. - Lightning Talk

10gen recently opened up a series of web based training courses on MongoDB! Ben is going to give us an overview and review for those who might be interested in digging deeper into Mongo but unsure where to start.

Ben Nutall - @Ben_Nutall (https://twitter.com/Ben_Nuttall)

Discussion & Networking - At the local pub!

After our main three talks lasting till around 9pm, we'll make our way to the local pub for some networking and further discussion with fellow MongoDB users.

Pizza and Beers will be served!

I look forward to meeting you!