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It’s festive closing time (soon!)

Posted on 21/12/2011 by woodsy

In common with the rest of the country, we heathens at Bristol Wireless shall be taking a festive break and closing the lab. Our arrangements are as follows: we shall be closing from lunchtime on Friday 23rd December (aka beer … Continue reading →

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Bristol GGD #11 – Wikipedia Birthday Editing Party

Posted on 13/12/2011 by woodsy

From the Bristol Girl Geeks Dinner website: Following on from the success of our Girl Geeks vs Wikimeet event back in August, we are teaming up with Wikipedia again, this time to bring you a hands-on editing event, at the … Continue reading →

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Get online with Knowle West Media Centre

Posted on 28/10/2011 by woodsy

Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) is launching a new programme of digital skills workshops to coincide with the national Get Online week (30th October – 6th November 2011). The varied programme includes a Work Club, which will support those looking … Continue reading →

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Life’s wild editing Wikipedia

Posted on 16/09/2011 by woodsy

Yesterday Bristol Wireless volunteers Jim and your correspondent attended the afternoon session of the two Wiki Wildlife Edit-a-thons (news passim) that were jointly organised by Wikimedia UK and Wildscreen’s ARKive project, the Bristol-based digital archive of the world’s endangered species, … Continue reading →

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Raise a glass to Ubuntu Happy Hours

Posted on 02/09/2011 by woodsy

Our friends in the UK Ubuntu community want to hold more regular events in the real world, but don’t want to concentrate everything in one location. Consequently, they are going to hold an Ubuntu Hour at a pub in some … Continue reading →

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17th September is Software Freedom Day

Posted on 17/08/2011 by woodsy

Saturday 17th September 2011 is Software Freedom Day (SFD). SFD is an event with hundreds of teams from all around the world running local events to help their communities understand Software Freedom. SFD is a worldwide celebration of Free and … Continue reading →

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Bristol Wiki Academy no. 2 coming soon

Posted on 25/06/2011 by woodsy

Following on from its first manifestation (news passim), a second Bristol Wiki Academy is now being planned to take place shortly on Monday, 4th July 2011. It will be hosted jointly by the BBC Anchor Project and Wikimedia UK. The … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Open Week – another IRC teach-in

Posted on 03/05/2011 by woodsy

Your ‘umble scribe picked his title ih haste, as it’s actually a series of teach-ins. Ubuntu Open Week is currently underway from Mon 2 May – Fri 6 May on IRC in #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat between 14.00 and 18.00 hrs … Continue reading →

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Debian Women & OpenHatch package rebuilding tutorials on IRC

Posted on 02/05/2011 by woodsy

Are you enthusiastic about Debian and thinking about contributing? If yes, then the Debian Women project and the OpenHatch project want to teach you the basics. They’ll be will be holding an IRC event on Saturday 7th May to help … Continue reading →

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Linux is 20 this year

Posted on 07/04/2011 by woodsy

2011 marks the 20th birthday of Linux (or GNU/Linux if you’re a purist. Ed.) and the Linux Foundation has released the video below to mark the event. Find out more about what’s happening to celebrate 20 years of Linux and … Continue reading →

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