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A trip to BarnCamp 2011

Posted on 15/06/2011 by woodsy

On Monday the advance crew – by now known as the tat-down team and consisting mostly of Bristol Wireless volunteers – arrived back tired but satisfied from the rural Barncamp site up the Wye Valley. Our journey began the previous … Continue reading →

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Bristol Wikimedia Academy

Posted on 08/03/2011 by woodsy

When: Saturday 19 March 2011. Arrive at 9.40 a.m. for a 10.00 start, continuing until 4 p.m. Lunch will be provided. Where: Room 1.06, Merchant Venturers School of Engineering, Woodland Road, University of Bristol, BS8 1UB (map) What: A non-technical … Continue reading →

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Ada Initiative supports women in free and open source

Posted on 10/02/2011 by woodsy

Sexism in free and open source software (FOSS) culture has been increasingly discussed and documented over the past couple of years. However, little has been done about it. Moreover, the lack of women contributors to projects such as Wikipedia has … Continue reading →

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Welcome OSFON!

Posted on 28/01/2011 by woodsy

News reaches the lab (hat tip: Lugbikaner) that Nigeria now has its own open source advocacy group called the Open Source Foundation for Nigeria (OSFON). According to OSFON’S website, its mission is The mission of Open Source Foundation for Nigeria … Continue reading →

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The Linux Lord’s Prayer

Posted on 15/06/2010 by woodsy

One of the joys of this year’s BarnCamp (news passim) was the banter around the campfire in the evening (in some instances the campfire conversation was redolent of this recent xkcd cartoon. Ed.). And for the following we’re indebted to … Continue reading →

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Last day to register for BarnCamp 2010

Posted on 31/05/2010 by woodsy

Today is the last day to sign up for BarnCamp 2010, which will be staged in the beautiful Wye Valley from 11th to 13th June 2010, courtesy of Hacktionlab, a regular convergence space where activists interested and/or working in the … Continue reading →

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Arise Sir Georg, a free software ‘knight’

Posted on 28/04/2010 by woodsy

Georg Greve, founding president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, has received the Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz am Bande). Georg received this high award from the German President for his work on … Continue reading →

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Live in South Bristol? Want to learn WordPress?

Posted on 01/04/2010 by woodsy

News arrives in your correspondent’s inbox and via the South Bristol Digital Neighbourhoods (SBDN) blog that a series of WordPress workshops has just got underway. Both SBDN and ourselves run WordPress (“both free and priceless at the same time“) to … Continue reading →

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A date for your diaries – Nowtopia

Posted on 27/03/2009 by woodsy

At 6 pm on Friday 3rd April, Bristol Wireless is jointly hosting a talk entitled Nowtopia at St Werburghs Community Centre (map here) in conjunction with our friends from Bristol Radical History Group and Bristol Anarchist Bookfair. The event will … Continue reading →

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WCW 2009 announced

Posted on 11/02/2009 by woodsy

The Wireless Community Weekend (WCW) hosted annually by Freifunk is taking place at the end of May (22.-24.05.2009) and will be staged once again at c-base in Berlin. The event programme has not been firmed up yet and will be … Continue reading →

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