Video Recordings now available

Our recordings of previous events are now all available on our YouTube Channel, including the January 2025 Event. So if you missed out, head on over there now.

Chats from the previous events can be found on the Meetings page.

The January event was an AI special that kicked off the year in great style. We had presentations from Wim Decorte on the practicalities of how to set up AI ("It's just an API call, remember that.") Then Ian Jempson showed us some AI performance stats followed by some of his second Malmö presentation and some of his current work on getting Claude to talk to FileMaker. Cris Ippolite then joined in and promoted a great discussion about AI. It was a real privilege to have probably the three top Claris platform AI developers leading this.

A well attended, lively discussion followed in the Virtual Bar that went on for another couple of hours.

Chat transcripts from the last and previous meetings are available in Meetings.

Our video recordings are on our YouTube Channel. Gary has promised to get this one up soon!

Ian and Cris will be back for our March event, along with Kate Waldhauser. Another one not to miss!

Funding
A quick note on funding. These meetings are free and we plan to keep them that way, but going forward we need to be able to cover the costs of setting up and running these meetings and making them available after. To that end, in the near future, we will be setting up some crowd funding. We'd really appreciate it if those who can afford to and find these meetings valuable could provide a small amount of financial support. There will be options for one-off and regular contributions.

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Agenda for meeting 79 (January 2025)

Date & time

Monday 3rd March 2025
7:00-9.30 pm UK time
8:00-10:30 pm CET
Virtual bar after

London
GMT/UTC
Brussels
CET +1
NY
EST -5
Austin
CST -6
LA
PST -8
Sydney
AEDT +11

19:00-21:30

20:00-22:30

14:00-16:30

13:00-15:30

11:00-13:30

06:00-08:30 Tue 5th

Virtual bar after

Location

Online

Agenda

(Provisional)

Time (UK)

Topic

Presenter

19:00

Welcome/Intro

Jul Carson

19:05

What's New - Roundup of Claris News.

Gary Palmer

19:20

Claris Connect

Kate Waldhauser

20:00

Claude talks to FileMaker

Ian Jempson

20:40

Learn AI

Chris Ippolite

21:30

Virtual Bar

Our meetings are attended by an assortment of very talented developers. If there's something you want to discuss with whoever is there, let us know and we'll do our best to give it air time.

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About

An informal gathering of developers and users of all levels where we all learn something. Discover new techniques, solve a problem or just chat about matters FileMaker with like minded people!

Meetings are usually held on the first Monday of every odd month (the second in the case of a UK Bank Holiday). They are always online and occasionally in person as well at The Dock Hub, Brighton and Hove.

If you came to the last meeting, please give us some feedback - we want to know what people think of the meetings so we can tailor them to your needs. Let us know how the presenters did, whether the topics were interesting or relevant etc.

Links to conferences are here. Links to other groups are here. Please let us know of any other conferences or groups we should include.

If you enjoy our meetings, please share on social media with the hashtag #FMBug

Next Meeting Monday 3rd March 2025
Subsequent Meeting Monday 12th May 2025

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    Christian Schmitz of MonkeyBread maintains a list of upcoming events worldwide here.

  • Previous FMBug Events
    Recordings

    Meeting 79 ( January 2025) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 78 ( November 2024) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 77 ( September 2024) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 76 ( July 2024) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 75 ( May 2024) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 74 ( March 2024) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 73 ( January 2024) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting (72) Post-EngageU Special ( December 2023) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 72 ( November 2023) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 71 ( September 2023) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 70 ( July 2023) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 69 ( May 2023) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 68 ( March 2023) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 67 ( January 2023) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 66 ( November 2022) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 65 ( September 2022) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 64 ( May 2022) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 63 ( March 2022) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 62 ( January 2022) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 61 ( November 2021) was presented as a live event online using Zoom. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 60 ( September 2021) was presented as a live event online using Google Meets and in person in Brighton and Hove. After a persistently unwelcome rogue attendee, the meeting was re-started. Both sessions were recorded and combined into a single video.

    Meeting 59 ( July 2021) was presented as a live event online using Google Meets. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 58 ( May 2021) was presented as a live event online using Google Meets. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 57 ( March 2021) was presented as a live event online using Google Meets. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 56 ( January 2021) was presented as a live event online using Google Meets. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 55 ( November 2020) was presented as a live event online using Google Meets. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 54 ( September 2020) was presented as a live event online using Google Meets. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 53 (July 2020) was presented as a live event online using Google Meets. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 52 (May 2020) was presented as a live event online using Google Meets. The session was recorded.

    Meeting 51 (Mar 2020) was available as a live event online using Google Meets. This session was not recorded.

    These recordings are available on our YouTube site er, quite soon after the meeting.

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