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News and more from the latest CamJam event in Cambridge.
September 2014 CamJam
On September 6, 2014, I attended CamJam [1], which is the name of the Cambridge Raspberry Jam. As the name suggests, this event is held in Cambridge in the UK. CamJam is held every two months (or thereabouts), and it is located at the Institute of Astronomy, on the outskirts of the city (Figure 1).
The first Cambridge Raspberry Jam was held in July 2012, shortly after the Raspberry Pi was officially released to the public; however, this was an event organized separately from CamJam. The CamJam (Figure 2) we now know had its first event in May 2013, and I think it is fair to say that it's one of the best, most established Jams around the world. It's regularly attended by more than 100 people of all ages.
Despite being in the hometown of the Raspberry Pi, the event is not actually run by the Raspberry Pi Foundation themselves (they are almost certainly far too busy with other things!) but by two extremely dedicated volunteers who are heavily active in the Raspberry Pi community – Michael Horne and Tim Richardson. When they are not organizing CamJam, Michael is a ColdFusion web developer and runs the Raspberry Pi Pod blog [2], and Tim is a Performance Architect.
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