The grassroots community for makers of web and digital stuff in England's far South West

A follow up to Iain's hugely popular "10 things I've learned" talk from the Falmouth Digpen, now he shares all the pearls of wisdom learned for making web/software/creative teams work, gained from experience working in some of the UK's top interactive agencies.

The Government spends £16Bn on ICT every year. Find out how they are reducing costs via the G-Cloud and how to become a supplier. Mark will explain the new G-Cloud and Government ICT Strategy and how to supply to Government and public sector organisations through the G-Cloud CloudStore.

Free tea and coffee

What's so great about CSS preprocessors? Andy will show how adopting CSS preprocessors for your front-end development can save time, money and frustration. This talk will introduce the two main contenders, LESS and SASS, what you can do with them and hopefully convince you what all the fuss is about.

Natalie Taylor from Bilby Marketing will discuss the pros and cons of using different social media channels from Twitter to Pinterest for promoting yourself and your clients.

A whistle stop tour of Django and Python by live coding a small application from start to finish. A good introduction to Python and Django, their features and capabilities, as well as general principles of working with MVC frameworks and ORMs.

Bring or buy your own

There's been a lot of coverage of the poor ICT curriculum in schools when it comes to serious programming. The Government is taking steps to fix that, but in the meantime what initiatives and ideas are there for working with schools now to improve their computing and design education? This will be a practical discussion lead by Shirley Atkinson from Plymouth University. If you're already involved with schools, or would like to be, this is a chance to share ideas and find people to work with.

Node.js offers to introduce a potentially harmonised stack and a scalable real-time application framework Rob and Gary will give a whistlestop tour of the history of server-side Javascript to date from simple validation to the arrival of V8. They'll then share their experiences working with node.js on live projects, separating fact from fiction and where it does and doesn't fit in. Along the way they'll share tips on how to evaluate new technology, not just because it's new and shiny, and the pro's and cons of living on the bleeding edge.

In a perfect world, every company has a content strategist. But often, it's web designers, not content strategists, who must orchestrate content production and integration.

Sophie will discuss which tools and techniques are most useful to a small team working with clients who have little content expertise, and share lessons learned from integrating content strategy into her own design process on several projects, helping clients produce great content.

An in-depth look at testing websites on mobile devices. The talk will cover device demographics and common design gotchas; simple UI testing, like tap targets, and tap and hold; as well as testing websites on a lossy mobile network and how to simulate various mobile network conditions.

It was desktop vs. mobile, then web vs. native which soon became web app vs. website. In this time of geek confusion we try to shed some light on the web ecosystem and how things are evolving. There are many choices but what gets asked less often is: what does the user want? Design, development and debugging are some of the topics discussed along with quirks and best practice.

Free tea and coffee

Whisky and Web design share a lot in common. No, really. Ben Reynhart will show you why they do, discuss his journey of refining and improving his design process, whittling out the waste to solve the crux of the problem earlier, and why wireframes and paper prototypes play an increasingly important role in Mutant Labs workflow. He'll also share how they spend time educating clients and the tools they use to manage expectations - ultimately leading to a better result and happier clients.

As a follow up to the digpen II discussion Ben will give a *brief* synopsis on the importance of collaboration, how much tech there is available and how easy it is to try, but then dive into an audience participated session discussing the tools we as a community rely on and would recommend other developers look at.

Keep the conversation going at The Roundabout, Drakes Circus, PL4 8AQ

DIRECTIONS Leave Robbins and turn right onto Gibbon Street. At the T-junction, turn right onto
Regent Street. Bear left at the end. The Roundabout pub is on the corner. The party is in the
private bar on the top floor.