Yet more happenings over Knowle West way. On Tuesday 23rd February, a Community & Technology event is being held from 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. at the Knowle West Media Centre on Leinster Avenue in Knowle West (map). The event is being billed as an opportunity for those with interest or experience in working with […]
Voscur, Bristol’s umbrella organisation for the voluntary and community sectors, recently announced it will be organising green ICT surgeries. They’re to be held between 2.00 p.m. and 4.00 p.m. on both Thursday 25 February 2010 and Monday 1 March 2010 on at The CREATE Centre, Smeaton Road, Bristol, BS1 6XN (map). Voscur’s website states: Voscur […]
It’s Valentine’s Day and the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is calling on free software users everywhere to show their love for free Software. Behind every free software initiative and organisation there are real, hard-working people from the developers to those who help with documentation and users who assist in squashing bugs and improving the […]
News arrives from Knowle West Media Centre that a South Bristol Digital Mentors Assembly is to be hold on Thursday 21st January 2010 from 5:30-7:30pm at the Tobacco Factory, Raleigh Road, Southville, BS3 1TF (map). It’s being organised to share digital aspirations for South Bristol and to challenge Bristol’s Digital Leaders to deliver them. Participants […]
Makala Campbell (Cheung) of Knowle West Media Centre writes: Hi All, Do you know of an older person that could benefit from getting online? Maybe you know someone who works with older people or has an older relative or neighbour? Please forward the relevant info below (choose which one) and help get older people to […]
We learn from Connecting Bristol that a green ICT solutions event is being held at Lecture Theatre 2, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantocks Close, BS8 1TS (map) from 6:00pm – 8:15pm. This event will showcase both collaborative projects and commercial providers from Bristol and Bath. Full details, including how to book, can be […]
It’s before 10 am on a Saturday morning and there’s a dozen or so Bristol Wireless folks huddled together in Hamilton House. Besides amazement at our weekend early rising proclivities, readers are probably wondering if this gathering served some useful purpose; and of course it did – we’d all come together for a day’s networking […]
Freeskilling don’t – and don’t think you do either (quite rightly. Ed. 🙂 ). Tomorrow night – Tuesday, 13th October – they’re organising an event at the Better Food Co. Cafe in St Werburghs (map), starting at 7.00 pm to tell you why you don’t need Redmond’s offering. To quote from the publicity: Ben Smith […]
Bristol Wireless volunteer phasma has posted the following article on Bristol Indymedia for a forthcoming event on 30 September at the Freeshop, 35 Stokes Croft, Bristol (map): Open workshop coming up in preparation for an ongoing project involving the community, open source, the Linux terminal server project and general networking. With a view to our […]
The curiously-named Celebrating Age Festival is being held in Bristol from 28 September to 3 October 2009, featuring events and activities at various venues around the city for those of its residents well afflicted by Anno Domini. The Celebrating Age Festival publicity page on Bristol City Council’s website announces that: During the week older people […]
Are you young (aged 15-18) and good with IT? In London next weekend? Well, you could be interested in the Young Rewired State weekend being organised then by Rewired State (byline: Geeks Meet Government. Ed.). Young Rewired State is a weekend event emulating the success of ReWired State’s National Hack the Government Day, but this […]
Martha Lane Fox, the recently appointed Champion for Digital Inclusion visited Bristol recently. I was asked to come along and give a five-minute talk about the work that Bristol Wireless has been doing to promote ‘digital inclusion’. I have reproduced my notes for the talk below; although they weren’t delivered in full on the day, […]
Rachel, the co-host of Bristol Dorkbot writes: Hi Everyone I just want to clarify that the Dorkbot next meeting is on Tuesday 21st July at the Pervasive Media Studio. You can sign up at the website for the meet now! NOTE: the PMS website has it down this evening, so if anyone thinks that its […]
Are you doing or have just done your A Levels and want to do practical technical computing? As we previously reported (news passim), Bristol’s University of the West of England is staging its Linux Boot Camp from Monday 29th June to Wednesday 1st July. The event will involve two and a half days of technical […]
About a week ago I wrote a piece (news passim) when the forward crew for Hacktionlab were about to depart to site, since when a discreet silence has been maintained. A partial excuse for such taciturnity was your scribe’s duties on the woodpile for the event – hard physical graft for someone used to tickling […]
Further to the previous post on the move to Hamilton House (news passim), Julien Weston writes: With a new beginning welcoming us at Hamilton House, Bristol Wireless are of course not forgetting those we are sadly leaving behind. So, we will be organising a fabulous and sumptuous LEAVING PARTY, to be held in The Zoo […]
I had an email from fellow Bristol Wireless volunteer Mike last night asking if I could fiddle with the order of posts on the site to bring the last post on Hacktionlab (news passim) to the top of the BW news page. After some thought, I decided to write this post instead. For those who […]
After Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle, the Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast is coming to Bristol this Friday 22nd May. The Grauniad’s team will be at the Watershed from 4pm and they’re looking forward to meeting techies, gamers, developers and entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes and hearing all their ideas and thoughts about the local scene – […]
Sitting on the desk before your correspondent is page 15 from Linux Format edition 119 for June 2009. This is a page entitled ‘Events radar’ and features Linux & open source events from around the world. Looking at June there’s one in particular that caught my eye – Bristol Wireless Linux Bootcamp, Bristol UK, particularly […]
News arrives in yer ‘umble scribe’s inbox from Bristol Dorkbot organisers Mike and Rachel (must be that time of the month again. Ed.), who write: Hello everyone, As you probably have heard, the next Dorkbot encounter is taking place on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 7:00pm – 10:00pm at the Pervasive Media Studio, Anchor Square, Bristol […]