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A meet-up for programmers, web developers and designers to discuss and showcase their “£5 apps” - lightweight software created by one or two people who take a simple idea and run with it.

The discussion will range from technical (what tools/languages were used during development) to business (building communities, spreading the word, costs and rewards).

For us the £5 App has been the best regular event in digital Brighton. It provides an environment which balances wonderfully the worlds of hardcore technology development and inspiring stories of entrepreneurship.

The £5 App has inspired us to build things that we can share with the community in Brighton, having the deadline of a £5 App to present at was a driving force pushing us to release the now popular HowSociable.com

Jon Markwell, Founder of Inuda.com

I love the sense of buzz in the £5 App meetings. Everyone there is either doing something - building a business or making an application - or there to learn how to start doing it themselves. It's got the best intersection of bright, motivated and helpful people of any event in Sussex.

Paul Silver, founder of brightonfarm.com

£5 apps is a fantastic expression of the DIY Digital Community: real people talking candidly about their experiences launching products and businesses. Whether I've been speaking or attending, it's always been great fun and I've never left one of the evenings without something interesting to think about :)

Tom Hume, founder of futureplatforms.com
£5 app on flickr >>

Meetup: Wildlife, Plaques, Robots, Show and Tell

Tue 30th Mar 2010 at 8 p.m.
The Skiff, 49 Cheltenham Place, Brighton

We've got a busy lineup for this £5app.

Simon Willison and Natalie Downe will be talking about Wildlife Near You, which as part of a team of twelve they mostly built in a fort.

Then Jez Nicholson and Simon Harriyott will discuss Open Plaques - a project:

"... that aims to find and provide data about all the commemorative 'plaques' (often blue and round) that can be found across the UK and worldwide."

Steve Carpenter will talk about his latest robots (not sure which one yet) and will hopefully demo his iPhone-controlled Dalek and maybe his iPhone-controlled maze solver.

After the main talks there will be some shorter show and tell sessions:

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