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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: A Musical Christmas Special

Wed 2nd Dec 2009 at 8 p.m.
Hectors House, 52-54 Grand Parade, Brighton

This years Christmas special £5app will be held at Hector's House and has a music theme (much like the gaming theme of last year's Christmas special).

We've got quite a busy line-up, so we expect everything to run for a bit longer than usual:

Seb has the main talk:

Before Seb Lee-Delisle was peddling his digital creations, he had an entirely different life. He spent most of his 20s setting up Solar Records and promoting his band Stargirl (later Laine). Investing over £50,000 of their own money, they released their own CDs, made it onto the radio and TV, played in front of 30,000 people, recorded at George Martin’s Air Studios and had full page spreads in the nationals.

They were at the forefront internet music boom of the late 90s. The future was looking rosy for this group of dynamic 20-somethings. So come and find out what it was like, how the hell they got the £50K, and why their plans didn’t quite reach fruition…

Beer – several of us who are doing well this year will put up some bar-money (Alan of SensibleDevelopment and Ian's ProCasts so far, several more to come, get in contact if you want to share the love). We may also get mulled wine if we're lucky.

Food – maybe nibbles. Hopefully either cake or cookies too.

Next, please sign-up on Upcoming so we know how much beer to provide and tweet/post about the event to help us spread the word. Cheers!

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