Improve your blogging skills
A free blogging skills exhange and discussion event is taking place at Bristol’s Watershed on Tuesday 5th December 2006.
Category Archives: Local IT News
Day of Disruption
On Wednesday 1st November, 100 delegates from central and local government, the private, community and voluntary sectors across the South West met at Watershed, Bristol for a day to discuss “Harnessing Digital Disruption”.
Twitching with psand.net
This Wednesday Bristol Wireless volunteers were treated to a hands-on ‘birdspotting’ workshop, aka using satellite communications, with Mike Harris of psand.net.
New Knowle West Neighbourhood Forum Launched
On 11th October 2006, a new online forum was launched for Bristol’s Knowle West area.
ICT support event at the Watershed
On 13th November 2006, a free workshop on “Making The Best Use of Free ICT Support” will be held at Watershed, Bristol
Virtually essential: why voluntary and community groups must embrace the internet
Ignoring the Internet is no longer an option for voluntary and community organisations, according to a new booklet ‘ICT, Social Capital and Voluntary Action’ published recently by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
LTSP at Truthfest
As its ‘last of the summer wine’ expedition this year, Bristol Wireless’ mobile LTSP suite paid a visit to Truthfest at Radford Mill Farm in Timsbury.
Momentum back up to speed after the summer
The first Connecting Bristol Momentum meeting took place on Tuesday 13th September at the Watershed. This was the first group meeting since hearing back in July that Bristol had made it through to the top 10 finalists in the government’s £7 million Digital Challenge.
Link up! Knowle West Web connected to Bristol Wireless Backbone
The Knowle West Web network has now been successfully connected to the Bristol Wireless backbone.
Bristol Teachers Say Home Internet Access Aids Education
A new survey amongst Bristol schoolteachers has revealed that children who do not have internet access at home are at a disadvantage, the Evening Post reports.
We’re all LTSP’ing on our summer holidays
In various sizes and disguises, Bristol Wireless’ mobile LTSP suite has been on its summer holidays again this year, taking in the Global Village in Kent, the Big Green Gathering in Somerset and the Climate Action Camp in North Yorkshire.
Network news – Bristol Wireless Backbone now stable
After a great deal of toil, testing and tweaking, the new Bristol Wireless 5.8 GHz network backbone is now stable and is almost ready for service since it is considered to be at the pre-production stage.
Bristol’s Digital Challenge on the box
On Friday 4th August a team from BBC Bristol’s Points West filmed a piece on Bristol’s Digital Challenge bid.
BCC joins ODF Alliance
From BCC press Office – http://www.bristol-city.gov.uk/ccm/content/press-releases/2006/jul/it-development-eases-sharing-of-information.en A new IT development is marking the beginning of the end of ‘can’t open yours’ culture. As part of its drive to reduce the cost of services without compromising quality, Bristol City Council today joined the Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance. The move is expected to make it easier […]
Bristol in Top Ten Digital Cities in UK
Bristol has today been named the region’s top digital city after being
named amongst the ten national finalists in the government’s Digital
Challenge.
Learn Cinelerra video editing for free at Easton
Ben Green of Bristol Wireless is organising an introductory course on video editing with Cinelerra at Easton Community Centre in Bristol in July 2006.
Connecting Bristol Bid submitted
Bristol City Council have submitted their bid to the Digital Challenge set by the goverment for showcasing how Local Authorities and their communities can really make use of new technologies to enhance peoples lives – The bid intro lays out the ambitious aims – increase participation in the social and economic life of Bristol and […]
Bristol – capital of wi-fi
Bristol is to build on its growing reputation on a leading European city for e-communications, digital technology and media industries by bidding to become the UK’s top digital city in 2006. How the city is using the latest technology to improve services and ensure a better quality of life for everyone and why a partnership of business, community and city council leaders believe Bristol can win the government’s £7 million “Digital Challenge”.
The 90 Second Film Challenge
Ben Green prefaced this project with a quote from “Mission Impossible”, but Bristol Wireless and Fluffy Logic have suceeded in the Challenge, making a succint and informative promotional infotisement on a minimal budget and lots of hard work. We’re really pleased with the result.
More Princess Royal Gardens
Many of you will know we have been working on using old hardware with the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) and now have over 5 networks installed across the city – one of them at Princess Royal Gardens. We got involved because of Ronnie Corbett, the Warden there. Ronnie has written about getting the computers […]