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Category Archives: Volunteering
Linda Bell is new Bristol Wireless Chair
Yesterday Bristol Wireless held its Annual General Meeting (news passim). About 10 members attended along with 2 guests. Part of the proceedings inevitably included the election of the committee and we’re very pleased to announce that Linda Bell has agreed … Continue reading
It’s AGM time – soon!
Wearing his company secretary’s outfit, your correspondent has just sent the following email and posted the following notice in the lab. NOTICE OF AGM The Annual General Meeting of Bristol Wireless for 2013 will be held at 4.30 pm on … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol Wireless Events, Bristol Wireless News, Local Events, Volunteering
Tagged event, volunteering
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Wikimedia Commons smartphone app released
Wikimedia Commons is a great resource: nearly 17 mn. freely usable media files that anyone can use for any purpose and to which anyone can contribute too! Contributing to Wikimedia Commons is also getting easier: it’s now possible to transfer … Continue reading
Posted in International IT News, Open Source News, Volunteering
Tagged free software, open data, open source, volunteering
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Bath University researches internet and cognition
The University of Bath has an interesting research project on the books at present, investigating the relationship between attention and internet use and is looking for volunteers. This study consists of two phases. In phase I, participants will be asked … Continue reading
Posted in Local IT News, Volunteering
Tagged social change, social networking, volunteering
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Very advance notice
Via a friend connected with our mates at Bristol Hackspace, we have received very early notice indeed of a date for your diaries and calendars in 2013; there will be a Mini Maker Faire at MShed at Princes Wharf, Wapping … Continue reading
Posted in Local Events, Local IT News, Volunteering
Tagged DIY, event, hacking, volunteering
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Debian bug squashing parties arranged for Wheezy
Debian is a great Linux distribution. Indeed, besides being a distribution in its own right, it acts as the foundation for the very popular Ubuntu distro and countless others. Here at Bristol Wireless, we’ve been using Debian for as long … Continue reading
Posted in International Events, International IT News, Open Source News, Volunteering
Tagged Debian, events, free software, Linux, open source, volunteering
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It’s Ada Lovelace Day
Today, 16th October is Ada Lovelace Day, which is a worldwide event about sharing stories of women — whether engineers, scientists, technologists or mathematicians and has the aim is to create new role models for girls and women in these … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol Wireless News, International Events, International IT News, Open Source News, Volunteering
Tagged activism, event, events, hacktivsm, Linux, open source, volunteering
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Bristol University wins special award
We learned today from Bristol247′s news wire that Bristol University has won a special award for its efforts to ‘bring knowledge to all’ through its collaboration with Wikimedia UK, the UK charity that supports the work of Wikipedia and its … Continue reading
Posted in Local IT News, Training, Volunteering
Tagged open source, Training, volunteering
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English Wikipedia now over 4 million articles
It’s just been announced by Wikimedia UK, the UK charity that supports the work of Wikipedia, that the English language version of Wikipedia has today passed through the barrier of 4 million articles: The English @Wikipedia now has over 4 … Continue reading
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Tagged open source, volunteering
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A brief look at Creative Commons
While the rest of the BW crew were enjoying a sunny weekend, the chief scribe was up with the sun (almost!) last Saturday to attend the Wikimedia UK 2012 Conference and AGM at London’s Science Museum in South Kensington. One … Continue reading
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