This document discusses upcoming events for the London Salesforce developer community in January and March 2013. It announces a hackathon in January and an all-day Developer Days event in March focused on helping new developers learn the Salesforce and Heroku platforms through workshops and tutorials. It also provides information on community resources like a calendar of events, Twitter accounts, and a mailing list for suggestions.

1. Growing the
London Salesforce Developer Community
John Stevenson
January 2013

2. In the News
Spring 13 forcedotcom platform release
- new tooling API
- Connect in Apex
- Canvas
- Connected apps
Calendar of events & webinars
http://developer.force.com/Calendar

3. Hack the Tower – Saturday Hackathon
Collaborate with other
developers
Share experiences
Mixture of languages,
tools, services and
products
meetup.com/
LondonSalesforceDevelopers

4. Developer Days London – March 2013
All day event aimed at those new to developing on the
Salesforce platforms
Morning session
- Overview of Salesforce & Heroku platforms
Afternoon session
- Guided forcedotcom workshop
or
- Assisted Heroku workshop – follow our tutorials
or build your own app

6. Developer resources overview
@forcedotcom
@askforce
Salesforce.StackExchange.com

7. Additional Community Organisers

8. Thanks to Partners for helping build the
community

9. What events do you want to see?
Evening workshops?
Study groups?
Other Ideas?
Talk to the Discuss on the
Organisers mailing list
LondonSalesforceDevelopers-list@meetup.com

10. What are you going to
build today?
Thank you