HackSoc

Events

Scheduling and Operations at Heathrow Airport

In this talk, Geert de Maare will be talking about his work at Heathrow Airport. This specifically includes working on some of the operations there and he will be going into detail about the hard mathematics used to solving the problems that occur with this. Geert is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, with specific interests in airline scheduling, airport operations and energy.

OpenStreetMap for Hackers

Jerry is an Open Data Advocate based in Nottingham and has previously spoken for HackSoc before in 2014! In this event, he will be discussing OpenStreetMap, how to use it and its applications. This will include: What is OpenStreetMap How to contibute to it Routing Problems OSM & Humanitarian Mapping Addresses

Demystifying App Development

One of our members, Demi, will be giving a talk to help you understand the general concepts and ideas around mobile app development. This will include: an overview of the app development industry, how it works and where it’s going the overarching concepts around app development, what they mean and how they work together what you can achieve when you apply these concepts together This talk is tailored towards those new to app development but anyone is welcome! Read more...

Nextcloud + Oracle Cloud workshop

Privacy is a major concern today, nearly all of your data stored with Google, Microsoft, or Apple. Now how would you like to get yourself away from all of this and keep all of files stored on the cloud e.g. on Google drive, iCloud, Onedrive etc. on your own cloud system so that you don’t have to worry about what these companies are doing with your data. There are many articles that have proven that the data stored on these clouds are accessible by these companies. Read more...