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//Brighton Bloggers

1 November November 8pm
The Victory, Duke Street map

The Brighton Bloggers community and website was born during the Virtual Festival of 2003, which means the Digital Festival was a great time for a meet up. An opportunity to meet up and talk with bloggers in the Brighton area, with an advice session for people to find out more.

The Brighton Bloggers had a great meet up on Thursday, with about 15 local bloggers attending. Photos and more here.

//Flash on the Beach '07 Conference

4 - 7 November 8am to late
Dome Corn Exchange map

Flash on the Beach has brought together the most creative, technical, inspirational and entertaining industry leading speakers in the rich media industry for this ground-breaking 4 day conference. Tickets & more info.

//Y design awards

Monday 5 November 6.30 to late
Brighton Pier map

The Y Design Awards were launched last year to recognise and reward the UK's leading creative talent demonstrated through the use of digital technology. The evening event on Brighton Pier announced the Peoples’ Choice Award which recognizes the best overall piece of work entered into the 2007 YDA scheme.

Y Design Awards are over for this year, congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who voted!

//Flash and Chips

Tuesday 6 November 5:30 -7:30
Pitcher and Piano, 1-5 King's Street, BN1 1NB (on the front) map

Flash and Chips was a meet-up for developers, creatives and digital agencies interested in the wonderful worlds of viral web games and in-game advertising.

// Brighton And Hove Web Awards

Thursday 15 November 7:30 - 11:00pm
Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton map

Brighton and Hove Web Awards, an annual celebration of the city's creative talent and expertise nominated by the public and local industry.

See photos of the evening here.

//Week of Skillswap

19 - 23 November
Madgex Offices, North Street map

Informal training by the local community for the local community. Volunteers gave up some of their free time to train a small group of their peers in a subject that interests them. Usually sessions take place every month or two: for this week of the Festival, there was be a session every night. Read more here.

// Flash Brighton's Big Day Out

Saturday 24 November 1:00pm to late
Royal Albion Hotel map

A day for web developers to get introduced to the Adobe technologies driving some of the hottest applications on the web such as YouTube, Google Finance and Yahoo Maps. Topics included Flash, Flex, and the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for creating visually rich, high performance, and cross platform web applications. Flash Brighton is a local group of Adobe Flash platform enthusiasts, including designers, animators, and coders. Free.

// OpenStreetMap Brighton 1.0

Thursday 29 November, 6 - 8pm
Brighthelm Centre

OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways.

Read more about the event here.