Following the success of our 'Off-line Job Board', where development teams can talk about new positions on their teams and developers (and agilists, testers, architects) can announce their availability, Skills Matter and MiniBar have joined up to see if we can take the idea of 'jobs for and by developers' further.

We are organising an evening, dedicated to help development teams find new colleagues and developers can find out about some really cool projects. At this evening event, approximately 10 Tech Companies will pitch their coding projects – young web start-ups as well as more established ones, with innovative projects – to software developers looking for interesting, agile projects using progressive technologies.

The format is straight forward: we start with ten lightning sessions where the developer team and/or CTO of each company can pitch their software project and open position for 3 minutes.

And we hope to attract an audience of around 100 developers, architects and other software professionals with an interest in cool positions. For and by developers, this event should give you an good idea of the technologies and practices at some of the most exciting projects today.

Following the lightning talks, there will be an opportunity to talk to the developers, CTOs and CEOs of the companies present and have a drink, or two.

Are you part of a company and would like the chance to pitch to attendees at this event? Please apply through findninja@skillsmatter.com supplying: your company name, size of your company, and the project pitch/job description. Limit: 100 words. Deadline for submissions: 5pm, Thursday April 21.