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UK Open Standards experts publish joint statement on Government consultation
Over the weeks, we’ve kept an eye of what’s happening in the Cabinet Office’s open standards consultation (news passim) and have noticed too that the usual suspects have been trying to nobble it. News has just arrived via the Free … Continue reading
Posted in National IT News, Open Source News
Tagged #ossplease, #ukgovOSS, open standards
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Bristol Wikimania 2013 bid fails
Bristol’s bid to host Wikimania in 2013 (news passim) has been unsuccessful.The following email was posted to the Wikimania mailing list yesterday: Dear all, It is my pleasure to announce that the jury has been able to come up with … Continue reading
Posted in International IT News, Local IT News, Open Source News
Tagged event, events, hacking, open data, open source, volunteering
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CiviCRM training coming to Exeter in June
A CiviCRM training session will be held in Exeter from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm on Tuesday 12th June at Exeter CVS, King William Street, Exeter, EX4 6PD (map) This will be comprehensive hands-on training course covering the configuration, administration … Continue reading
Posted in Local Events, Local IT News, Open Source News, Training
Tagged event, open source, Training
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Munich’s Linux desktop saves millions and is more robust
Joinup reports that figures provided by Munich’s Mayor, Christian Ude, reveal that switching to a Linux-based open source desktop reduces costs and results in fewer calls to help desks, and that replacing the current pool of almost 10,000 open source … Continue reading
Posted in International IT News, Open Source News
Tagged #ossplease, #ukgovOSS, green ICT, Linux, open source
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Bristol bids to host Wikimania in 2013
Wikimania is an annual international conference for users of the various projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation (e.g. Wikipedia and its sister projects). It includes presentations and discussions include Wikimedia Foundation projects, other wikis, open source software, free knowledge and … Continue reading
Posted in International Events, Local IT News, Media and Content, Open Source News
Tagged events, hacking, open data, open source, social change
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New e-petition
A new e-petition has appeared on the Government’s e-petitions site entitled ‘Migrate all government IT to Linux based systems’ (as it’s in a good cause, we’ll ignore the original petitioner’s woeful lack of a hyphen between Linux and based in … Continue reading
We’re giving a talk
Tonight Bristol Wireless volunteers Jules and BenG are going to the Novers Park Community Centre to visit South Bristol Amateur Radio Club to give a talk on the work of Bristol Wireless. Jules has offered to do a write-up following … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol Wireless News, Local Events, Local IT News, Volunteering
Tagged event, volunteering
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Yesterday’s Evening Post
Yesterday Bristol’s Evening Post, the city’s newspaper of record (really? Ed.), carried the news of Bristol Wireless’ shortlisting for the Santander Social Enterprise Awards (which were being organised locally in conjunction with the Quartet Community Foundation). We’d originally applied for … Continue reading
North Lancs residents make broadband history
More than 100 North Lancashire residents gathered in a field at Quernmore on Saturday to make internet history. They were all members of the B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) project, a community-led company which is about to install some … Continue reading
Regional supercomputing centre set to revolutionise research
The University of Bristol has announced it has joined forces with the Universities of Oxford, Southampton and University College London to form a Centre for Innovation to share state-of-the-art equipment and world-leading skills, speeding up the rate at which complex … Continue reading
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