Dot Net North

Predicting Risk on the UK Strategic Road Network, Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Data science's dirty little secret is that there's never enough data to train your model. But Gary Short wasn't bothered by that - whilst solving a problem he developed a m

🚀 Join us for brilliant speakers, practical .NET content, and a welcoming community of developers.
🎫 Tickets are FREE!
🍕 Pizza + drinks included
🍺 Pub afterwards for a chat

Get your free ticket here 👇

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📊 Predicting Risk on the UK Strategic Road Network

This month Gary Short tackles data science's dirty secret - never enough training data! Learn his methodology combining estimation, forecasting & rigour.

🗣️ Gary Short
📍 Bonded Warehouse, Manchester
🕕 Tuesday 29th July, 6:00 PM

If you happen to find yourself around Manchester and at a loose end on a Tuesday do give us a shout. That looks super interesting!

DotNetNorth CHANGE - Xamarin: Moving On, Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to circumstances beyond our control, we aren't able to bring you the originally advertised talk: "Down The Oregon Trail with Functional C#" from Simon

🚀 Join Dot Net North this month for brilliant speakers, practical .NET content, and a welcoming community of developers.

🎫 Tickets are FREE!
🍕 Pizza + drinks included
🍺 Pub afterwards for a chat
Get your free ticket here 👇

📱 Xamarin's evolution and what comes next! This month Mike Irving takes us through Native Apps, Xamarin.Forms, tooling migration, plus exploring .NET MAUI, Uno Platform, Avalonia UI & more.

🗣️ @mikeirvingweb.bsky.social
📍 Peninsula Building, 2 Cheetham Hill Road
🕕 Tuesday 24th June, 6:00 PM

Looks like we might have a change of speaker for Tuesday - bear with us, updates will be posted here as soon as we know more.

If you're in Manchester, you should come along to eat some pizza and throw things at me.

Midi Birds: Playing games with .NET MAUI, Tue, May 20, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Can you use a MIDI controller to host TV game show games with the help of an event audience? Does bird song offer the perfect dataset for these games? Will a rainbow clown

🆓 Free event with pizza & drinks provided. We'll continue conversations at a nearby venue afterward.

🎟️ www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

🎮Midi Birds: Playing games with .NET MAUI with @tonyedwardspz.bsky.social!

Can MIDI controllers, birdsong & a clown wig make the perfect game show? Find out!

📅 Tue May 20th, 18:00-21:00
📍 Betfred, 72-76 Cross St, Manchester
🔊 No prior knowledge needed!

Sweet Chocolatey Kernels!, Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Two talks for the price of zero. We have a double header for you **Semantic Kernel and MongoDB** \- Luce Carter Learn how to combine AI with C# and the most popular docum

More details + free tickets here: www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

Double header at Dot Net North this month! @lucecarter.bsky.social on Semantic Kernel + MongoDB AI integration, and @stevefutcher.bsky.social making software installs smoother with Chocolatey. Tickets are free, and there's pizza + drinks!

📅 Tue 15th April, 18:00
📌 Spektrix, 196 Deansgate

Oh yeah, and its totally free!

The talk is awesome, there's pizza, loads of awesome people to meet, AND YOU CAN WIN SOCKS! What's not to love?

A Victorian take on Rich Domain Plumbing, Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup At Victorian Plumbing we're fans of domain driven design. Instead of focusing on DDD for communication this talk focuses on the application of DDD in code. We're going to e

🎟️ Tickets are free and available via our Meetup page now but act fast as spaces are limited! www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

Our next event is "A Victorian take on Rich Domain Plumbing" - Victorian Plumbing's approach to DDD in code: fewer bugs, simpler solutions!

🗣️ Dave Manton, Head of Architecture at Victorian Plumbing
📍 Peninsula Building, Manchester
🕕 Tue 18th March, 18:00
🍕 Free + pizza included!

Rust for .NET Developers, Tue, Feb 25, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Rust regularly tops the StackOverflow developer survey as one of the most admired languages among developers. It's fast, it's safe, and with its beginnings as a systems pro

📍 Finding us: We're next to Crystal Maze Manchester! Head towards MoSI - we're along the private road next to the café.

🎟️ Grab your free ticket here: www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

🦀 Rust meets .NET! Join us for an exciting evening exploring Rust from a .NET developer's perspective!

🗣️ @jameseastham.co.uk , Microsoft MVP & Datadog Developer Advocate
📍 Bonded Warehouse, 18 Lower Byrom Street, Manchester
🕕 Tues 25th Feb, 18:00-21:00
🍕 Free + pizza included!

DDD North returns to Hull University on Feb 22nd!

Join the developer community for a day of knowledge sharing, networking and top-notch tech talks. Free tickets available now 👉 dddnorth.co.uk/registration

Don't forget to give them a follow too @dddnorth.bsky.social

Awesome stuff! If you could ping us a DM on here we can get the ball rolling

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Thank you @dotnetnorth.bsky.social for hosting me and letting me geek out on how copilots and other LLM based apps work, and show off my Star Wars copilot powered by @getpieces.bsky.social.

The force is strong in LLMs – building a Star Wars inspired copilot using Pieces, Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup In the Star Wars universe, many pilots have an astromech copilot. Luke had R2-D2 in the back of his X-Wing for example. As developers, we too have copilots. Although these

👇 RSVP here. Places are free, but limited! www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

🚀 Join us as @jimbobbennett.dev shows how to build your own Jedi-powered dev co-pilot! We'll use PiecesOS to create a context-aware AI assistant (Death Star plans optional) #dotnet #manchester

📍 Betfred, 72-76 Cross St, M2 4JG
🕕 Tue 28th Jan, 18:00-21:00
🍕 Free + pizza included!

Announcing a free GitHub Copilot for VS Code Announcing a free plan for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code.

@dotnetnorth.bsky.social
as promised follow up links:
The announcement of free #GitHubCopilot for #VisualStudioCode code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2024/1...

Simplified Setup code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot...

Copilot Trust Centre copilot.github.trust.page?wt.mc_id=MVP... 1/2

GitHub - adenearnshaw/dnn-aspire: Distributed application to highlight the use of .NET Aspire Distributed application to highlight the use of .NET Aspire - adenearnshaw/dnn-aspire

Here’s the repo that compliments tonight’s @dotnetnorth.bsky.social talk on ”What’s new in Aspire” github.com/adenearnshaw...

The force is strong in LLMs – building a Star Wars inspired copilot using Pieces, Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup In the Star Wars universe, many pilots have an astromech copilot. Luke had R2-D2 in the back of his X-Wing for example. As developers, we too have copilots. Although these

UK folks - I'll be at @dotnetnorth.bsky.social in Manchester on the 28th January talking about building a Star Wars copilot with C# and @getpieces.bsky.social! Come join me.

www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

.NET Conf 2024 Local, Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup We will be recapping and reviewing some of the interesting announcements from .NET Conf. Aden Earnshaw: \- \.NET Aspire Mike Irving: \- \.NET 9 Breaking Changes Rachel B

🎯 Deep dive into .NET Conf with talks on Aspire, .NET 9 changes, GitHub Co-pilot & Uno Platform and more from our amazing speakers! #dotnet #manchester

📍 Manchester Tech Centre (on Oxford Road by Hatch)
🕕 Tue 14th Jan, 18:00-21:00
🎟️ Free!
🍕 Food included
Register: www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

Festive Meal 2024, with Umbraco Manchester, Tue, Dec 3, 2024, 6:00 PM | Meetup Main Event (Meal) at 7pm. 6:00 pm: Pre-meal drinks (optional, at Society) 7:00 pm: Meal at **Society** 9:00 pm: Post-meal drinks (optional) Society: Basement, 100 Barbiro

We're having a little pre-Christmas get together collab with Umbraco Manchester on 3rd December. No speaker this time, just your lovely faces!

RSVP & deets 👉 www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

Time really does move faster this time of year; our Christmas do is next week!

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Sorry to hear that Terrence. Hopefully you're feeling better soon.

Manchester tech folks, raise your hand!

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