United Kingdom Open source News

West Ham United Hotel and Conference Centre received gold at the recent Football Hospitality Awards - ‘Conference & Events Sales & Marketing’ category and received TripAdvisor’s Certificate of Excellence

Alana Bicknell has been appointed as sales manager of catering company, Payne and Gunter.

ForLinux is delighted to announce that it has been awarded the ISO 20000-1 accreditation in Information Technology Service Management.

The Hotel Booking Agents Association is to run a technology supplier showcase day combined with workshops to help booking agents and hoteliers maximise their knowledge on the rapidly changing face of booking technology for the sector.

ForLinux, a managed hosting provider based in the East Midlands, is delighted to have achieved Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance and to be registered as an approved supplier by both MasterCard and Visa.

Box UK continues contribution to open source community with latest code library release, Routing

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Recognised by planners and other wedding experts as one of the best wedding venues in South East London, the Old Royal Naval College (ORNC) has introduced a bespoke wedding package for the UK's military services.

Lime Venue Portfolio, has continued its strategy of strengthening its sales team at its venues with the appointment of Joanna Zmienko at the Old Royal Naval College.

Opsview Enterprise provides organisations with a scalable open source alternative to expensive and proprietary IT monitoring solutions

Mayfair’s Dartmouth House held a special summer party for the meetings and event industry last night (7th April) to showcase its facilities and event offering for 2011-12.

West Ham United’s Boleyn Ground is introducing Catchment Conferencing whereby local companies get the keenest rates for their events.

Simple Risk Analysis For Software Projects is a newly released risk assessment manual, supplied with two associated templates. It is for business customers with software projects in both start-ups and large companies.

Members of the HBAA turned to the Chancellor’s budget yesterday to see the effects on the accommodation and meetings and events booking sector.

The Museum of Science & Industry, a premium central Manchester venue offering ten rooms for meetings and events has strengthened its sales team with the appointment of Lucy Cort to the position of sales manager.

Hughes Bennett Education announces the availability of FREE subscriptions for academic staff to use Bamboo Toolbox, which provides instant access to open source software for higher education.

Hughes Bennett Education, a studio in London which produces materials for higher education, announces the availability of Bamboo Tools, an innovative tool that allows instant access to powerful open source software for students in higher education.

HBAA is warning members to ensure they abide by London’ events licensing system in 2012 before a 31 March deadline

Lime Venue Portfolio, the UK’s biggest collection of unique, cultural and sporting venues is continuing with the expansion of its work force by appointing Kate Coby as sales and revenue manager at Stationers’ Hall, located in the City of London.

ACME Squares is the online advert that's so big, it needs 156 HD screens to view it.

The free fonts for download repository fonts-free.org awards the best rated and mostly downloaded fonts in 2011. The freshly founded Download platform calls all Font designers to submit their free font and to participate in the award.

Menzies Flitwick Manor Hotel has launched an exclusive residential package specifically for the meeting and events market.

netXtra launches new website for The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) - a dynamic site that replaces BASCA's old open source Joomla website with a solution underpinned by netXtra's own Xanadu content management system..

The new HBAA Official TV Channel will be the platform to share the highlights of the Association’s activities with peers

A new book that contains over 80 great recipes to create life-like Blender objects and will help readers to master techniques for creating believable natural surface materials.

SugarCRM announces record growth for the fourth quarter and full year 2010 in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The record year of growth was led by continued channel expansion in the region and the overwhelming demand for Sugar 6.

Menzies Cambridge Hotel and Conference Centre is putting its boot behind Cambridge United Football Club for the 2011 season.

Stephen Usher, Managing Director House of Usher and past Chair of the HBAA, handed over a cheque today for £2,425 to Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance (WNAA).

Surrey County Cricket Club has announced that The Oval, part of Lime Venue Portfolio, will be renamed the Kia Oval.

Susanna Christie of Infotel Solutions has been awarded the HBAA’s Tim Gasson Memorial Award for her outstanding contribution to the association throughout 2010.

The HBAA staged its annual headline social event on Friday 14th January

Harwich based start-up Sport and Health Unite Ltd become the latest users of increasingly popular CRM system from Junari.

Wyboston Lakes has rounded off the year in style by picking up two accolades at the esteemed Club Mirror Awards.

Wyboston Lakes will be hosting another popular wedding fayre on 16th January 2011.

Lime Venue Portfolio have appointed Richard Fisher and Maria Scullion to head up its management team at Dartmouth House in Mayfair.

Menzies unveils major meeting investment

Juliet Price will lead the HBAA into the next decade as the chair of the association.

MPC Data's 'KickStart' for embedded Linux offers a combination of consultancy and training delivered by experienced embedded Linux engineers.

Junari announce latest release of their popular Customer Relationship Management system and release details of new features included

Alliance membership allows Essex-based software house Junari to help shape the future of OpenERP development within the UK

Planning for Christmas has never been easier with Wyboston Lakes at hand to help.

Compass Group has scooped the Gold and Bronze awards for Best Website at the Meetings Industry Marketing Awards.

StatPro announces that it will host a free-to-attend forum for quantitative analysts in London on 3 November 2010, in cooperation with open source organisation QuantLib.

John Truscott, the leading UK Church Consultant has relaunched his own website (www.john-truscott.co.uk and created an online presence for UCAN.

Capital to become “24/7 City” during the Olympic Games

The HBAA welcomes its highest ever turnout of delegates at its powwow being held at the Holiday Inn Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Wyboston Lakes wedding fayre on Sunday 3rd October 2010

A small team of hardy employees from Wyboston Lakes Conference and Training Centres have taken part in a challenging charity walk, the “Derbyshire Dawdle” in the Derbyshire Peak District.