Pi birthday celebration

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Manchester Pi Jam

We report on the recent Pi Jamboree held in Manchester.

Despite being heavily involved in the Raspberry Pi community (I volunteer for The MagPi magazine [1] and run Pi Supply [2], among other things), during the past two years, I have managed to attend only one previous Raspberry Jamboree event in Sheffield. So, I was delighted to find out that the 2014 Manchester Jamboree would be held on a date that I was actually free.

This was the second Manchester Jamboree and, like the previous event in 2013, it was held to coincide with the birthday of the Raspberry Pi computer itself, so it was the perfect get-together to talk about, play with, and celebrate everyone's favorite little computer!

The event was a three-day Raspberry Pi bonanza, organized by the enthusiastic Alan O'Donohoe (@teknoteacher), comprising two days co-located with the Education Innovation Conference and Exhibition (EICE) in the Manchester Central conference center and a family hack day afterward at Edge Hill University.

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