Some Education Related Events (mainly for students and recent grads)

Focus is on St. Petersburg and Russia-wide activities.

Industry Related

• DocFlow http://docflow.ru/
• Russian Internet Week http://russianinternetweek.ru/ 
• СПИК http://www.sp-ic.ru/ 
• Central and Eastern European Software Engineering Conference in Russia (CEE-SECR 2009) 
• EMC Forum http://www.emc-forum.ru/
• Cisco Expo http://www.ciscoexpo.ru/ 
• Sun TechDays http://developers.sun.ru/techdays2009/
• RootConf-2009 "Профессиональная конференция системных администраторов "

There are smaller events in St. Peterburg. How to get to know about them?

http://www.osp.ru

http://www.pcweek.ru/events/

http://events.cnews.ru/agenda/

http://spbit.ru/meetings/

User Groups (in St. Petersburg)

 Linux Users Group

 Java Users Group

•  Haskell User Group
•  Smalltalk User Group
•  SPB Ruby User Group

Student Schools

• List by Alexander Kulikov http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/~infclub/?q=studentschools 
• Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval http://romip.ru/russir2010/ 
•  (Finnish Russian University Cooperation in Telecommunications)
• SYRCoDIS - Spring Young Researchers Colloquium on Databases and Information Systems
• Spring Young Researchers Colloquium on Software Engineering http://syrcose.ispras.ru/

     Schools in other subjects

• Season Schools by High School of Economics
• http://hse.ru/winter/  
• http://www.hse.ru/news/branches/3746849.html
• http://sun.hse-inc.ru/ , http://adhoceducation.blogspot.com/2009/07/hse-summer-school-on-enterpreneurship.html
• Winter Psychological School (St. Petersburg State University) http://flogiston.ru/news/conference/zpsh2009 , группа в ВКонтакте 

Lectures, Seminars

• Lectures and seminars in Computer Science Club http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/~infclub/ (video available!!)
• Семинар по UNIX и скриптовым языкам http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/aptu/?q=seminars/se  
• Семинар по автоматической обработке естественного языка (Natural Language Processing) http://mathlingvo.ru/nlpseminar (video available!!)
• Межвузовская лаборатория робототехники (сайт обновляется вяло - актуальная информация в вК-группе)
• Физико-математический клуб при ПОМИ
• Гостевые лекции ВШМ СПбГУ http://www.gsom.pu.ru/career/guest_lectures_archive/ 
• Лекторий "Контекст" http://www.contextclub.org  

Lectures/Project based learning

• Академия Современного Программирования http://www.amse.ru/
• Академия ИКТ http://www.ictacademy.ru
• St. Petersburg Open Source and Linux Lab http://osll.spb.ru/
• Finnish Russian University Cooperation in Telecommunications http://fruct.org
• St. Petersburg State University Information Management Research Group

Live Events

• Computer Festival Chaos Constructions
• HackDay www.hackday.ru
• Конференция TEDx 
• http://citycamp.tv/ 
• неконференция "NevaCamp" 

Contests

Microsoft Imagine Cup http://imaginecup.com/ 

Imagine Cup Russia 2009 (в ссылках) http://adhoceducation.blogspot.com/2009/07/imagine-cup-russia-2009.html

Google Summer of Code http://code.google.com/soc/

www.it.campus.ru 

http://www.planet-it.ru/

Other

Петербургский фестиваль языков 

AIESEC Internships across the world http://www.aiesec.spb.ru/ 

Пространство коммуникаций Raum-7 http://raum-7.com/

News Sites and Blogs

Каталог ИТ мероприятий http://it-event.ru/cities/spb/ 

Информатика в России http://www.csin.ru

http://www.konferencii.ru/

Петербургская версия проекта "Теории и практики" (T&P)"

Хабрахабр

http://yakov-sirotkin.livejournal.com/

http://yury-lifshits.livejournal.com/

http://adhoceducation.blogspot.com/ 

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