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 In the current conditions, they are online only, but when some semblance of normality returns, they'll be hosted at The Dock Hub, Brighton and Hove. They will also be broadcast live via the offices of Forbidden Planet in London, where you are also welcome to attend with plans to extend to further locations with the assistance of Solis Digital.
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.
If you're interested in dotFMP, there's more info here. Other groups are here.
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Reminder - the opportunity to take the FM18 certification will end in May.
If you need to bone up, what better way than this excellent Resource, offered free to the community by Penny Ruddell?
Date and time
Monday 10th May 2021 (3rd was a holiday)
6:00-9.30 pm UK time
7:00-10:30 pm CEST
(Virtual bar after)
Location
Online only.
Times are London, UK time - add one hour for CEST
18:30 Welcome / Introduction
Jul Carson
18:40 What's New - An overview of FileMaker news
Gary Palmer
18:50 Q&A - Ask any question
Jul Carson/Gary Palmer
19:05 Fat, thin, wide or tall? Answer that in the Virtual Bar Gary Palmer
19:15 OData Interactiive Session (following on from last meeting's introduction)
John Renfrew
20:00 FM Server on uBuntu and new features coming in the next FM version
Doug Wallis
20:30 FileMaker Server on Linux - deployment with Ansible
Steve Winter
21:15 Virtual Bar Opens
21:20 Open discussion, answers to any Q&A items not finished
Further talk into the night. Beer or wine (almost) obligatory!
Topics
Instructions
Instructions for online attendance - Google Meet.
Join the event any time from 18.20 UK time onwards.
Ensure you have set a name - you won't be admitted without one. Once you are accepted into the meeting, please mute the mic on your feed. You can access this by mousing down over the bottom of the window. If you wish to leave your video on that is up to you.
Core discussion is reserved for Event Locations (Brighton and London) and for speakers at the event.
Please use the chat and only speak when invited or in a group discussion. We also ask that you only unmute your mike when speaking and mute again afterwards.
You can change the layout by clicking on the three dots on the right. If you want full screen select Change layout and Use Spotlight option.
Covid-19
Until further notice, meetings will be delivered as online events only.
Funding & Subscriptions
These meetings are FREE for everyone now and going forward beyond the covid-19 restrictions, thanks to the generosity of ForbiddenPlanet.com and solisdigital.com.
Other meetings
Other Groups
dotFMP is holding regular quarterly meetings. More info below.
Egbert is creating an amazing new resource that will end up as a calendar you can subscribe to with a vast selection of FileMaker related events worldwide.
You can subscribe now but you may need to refresh the subscription once or twice whilst Egbert finishes development.
Recordings
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 soon after the meeting.
Let me have recordings and free samples!
This area is currently restriced to attendees of previous meetings. Use the password you have been given or ask me for it.
Please send me any files you want to share with the group.
We learned some amazing things from some remarkable people at the last .fmp.berlin The next one is coming up soon: Thursday 3rd June to Saturday 5th June 2021.
The Covid-19 situation means it's an online only event again this year. Sign up here: .fmp.registration
There are now regular quarterly meetups, held on the first Thursday of every third month (usually). You can subscribe to the calendar here