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<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html><head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://bcs-spa.org/stylesheet.php?cssid=42&mediatype=screen" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" > <title>SPA - Home</title> </head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" onLoad="" margin-height="0"> <div class="header"> <div class="spamenu"> <table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" width="510px"> <tr><td id="Membership"><a href="http://bcs-spa.org/membership.html" class="menuitem">Membership</a></td><td> - </td><td id="Aims"><a href="http://bcs-spa.org/aims.html" class="menuitem">Aims</a></td><td> - </td><td id="Events"><a href="http://bcs-spa.org/events.html" class="menuitem">Events</a></td><td> - </td><td id="Committee"><a href="http://bcs-spa.org/spa-committee.html" class="menuitem">Committee</a></td><td> - </td><td id="Resources"><a href="http://bcs-spa.org/resources.html" class="menuitem">Resources</a></td><td> - </td><td id="Wiki"><a href="http://bcs-spa.org/cgi-bin/view/SPA/WebHome" class="menuitem">Wiki</a></td></tr></table> </div> <div class="utilities"> <a href="/" class="utilityitem">Home</a> - <a href="committee.html" class="utilityitem">Committee</a> - <a href="contact.html" class="utilityitem">Contact</a> </div> <div class="logo"> <a href="index.php"><img src="furniture/spalogo.gif" width="151" height="82" border="0" /></a> </div> <div class="title"><img src="furniture/spatitle.gif" width="422" height="41" /></div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="leftcol"> <div class="headingline"><h1 class="yellow">Who are we?</h1></div> <p>SPA (pronounced 'spar') is the <em>Software Practice Advancement</em> specialist group of脗聽<a href="http://www.bcs.org">BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT</a>. Read about our aims and mission <a href="index.php?page=aims">here</a>.</p> <div class="headingline"> <div class="headingline"><h1 class="yellow">What do we do?</h1></div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <ul> <li>organise regular <a href="index.php?page=events">events</a> (currently in London only, but anywhere else where there is demand and a team to organise a session)</li> <li>organise and run the <a href="index.php?page=committee">SPA conference series</a> (including Mini SPA) and occasional <a href="index.php?page=autumn-series">lecture series</a></li> <li>run <a href="index.php?page=mailling-lists">mailing lists</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="headingline"> <div class="headingline"><h1 class="yellow">How do I join?</h1></div> </div> <p>Although everyone can attend BCS SPA meetings, those attending more than one or two are encouraged to join BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, at the appropriate grade. You'll find everything you need to know about joining SPA <a href="index.php?page=membership">here</a>.</p> <div class="headingline"> <div class="headingline"><h1 class="yellow">What else is on this site?</h1></div> </div> <p>Lists of past and planned events are <a href="index.php?page=events">here</a>, including presentation materials and/or notes in many cases, along with newsletters and other useful materials. There used to be a wiki for discussion of related topics, but it was not used much and so the content is now offered on a read-only basis.</p> <p>You can jump from here directly to the <a href="index.php?page=london-meeting-programme">London Meeting Programme</a> and to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBhokJ0qd3_wlvr0j85YhmNfNj8ZJ8M-" target="_blank">our playlist on YouTube</a>.</p> <div class="headingline"> <div class="headingline"><h1 class="yellow">Affiliates</h1></div> </div> <p>There are a number of <a href="index.php?page=friendly-organisations">friendly organisations</a> whose goals are broadly sympathetic to those of SPA, and with whom SPA has had cross-sponsorship or other arrangements in the past.</p> <div class="headingline"> <div class="headingline"><h1 class="yellow">Where's OOPS?</h1></div> </div> <p><a href="index.php?page=name-change">Find out why</a> BCS OOPS changed its name to SPA. Or <a href="index.php?page=history">read more</a> about SPA's thirty year history.</p> </div> <div class="rightcol"> <div class="headingline"><h1 class="green">News</h1></div> <p class="newsheading body newsitem" style="line-height: 19px;"><strong style="font-size: 12px;">SPA Conference</strong></p> <p class="newsitem">The annual <a href="https://www.spaconference.org/" target="_blank">BCS Software Practice Advancement conference "Software in Practice"</a> brings together experts and practitioners to share the latest thinking in software development. Recordings of past conference sessions are available.</p> <p class="newsitem">No conference is currently planned for 2024. It's a lot of work to put together a conference and the level of participation in recent years has been frankly disappointing. Please get in touch with the committee if you would be interested in reviving the annual conference.</p> <p class="newsitem">Please <a href="https://www.spaconference.org/about" target="_blank">contact us</a> if your organisation might be interested in sponsoring the next conference.</p> <p class="newsheading">Next evening meeting (London)</p> <p class="newsitem">4th December 2024, 18:30-20:00. Dildeep Gabrhi: <a href="https://spa041224.eventbrite.co.uk/" target="_blank">Adventures in AI-Generated Video</a>.</p> <p class="newsitem">[<a href="?page=london-meeting-programme">Full London programme</a>]</p> </div> </div> <br /> <div class="footer">© 2004-2012 BCS SPA. </div> </body> </html>