FAQs
I’ve done a whole list of as yet unanswered FAQs at http://docs.psand.net/twiki/bin/view/CLAN/ClanFAQs Feel free to start filling in the blanks.
NotCon04 6th June
* NOTCON ’04 Call for Participation – Please Redistribute Freely * NotCon ’04, Sunday 6th June 2004, Imperial College Union, London http://www.notcon04.com/ Proposals due by: Friday 14th May 2004 Have you coded, created, or discovered an interesting application of technology? Then why not come and talk about it at NOTCON ’04? NOTCON ’04 is an […]
Course Delay + New Flyer
Due to problems with the wrong booking telephone number being handed out, we have delayed the start of the course to Thursday 22nd April. You can download a flyer for the course here – https://www.bristolwireless.net/images/bw.pdf Please print out some copies and distribute if you can. Because of the delay the tutors and administrators have agreed […]
Name for Demo day
It would be really useful to have an agreed title for the Demo day on June 5th so we can get on with the promotion of the event, something like Bristol Wireless Community Network Media Content Demonstration Festival although that’s a bit of a mouthful. Any other suggestions and we could put up a poll […]
New Training News
We’ve got dates for the next training course – this time we only have the opportunity to deliver the course in one slot running from Thursday April 8th for 4 weeks. All bookings will be done through Music & Message via the ECC. We are arranging to have the computers refurbished and delivered by Don […]
Pathways Work Placements
We’ve got the go-ahead with a few provisos to employ some people as work placements in partnership with Future West as part of the Pathways to Work project. We’ve had a meeting at the lab with Red and Jade West the 2 administrators of the scheme and they seem very keen to work with us. […]
Easton Residents Network – first node
The first node for the Easton Residents Network is being rolled out today at Greenhaven Sheltered Housing Greenbank Avenue East BS5 6EW Hopefully they’ll be a report here later today as to how it went.
Easton residents network- project appraisal
From: Sam Rossiter <ozzysamuk@yahoo.com> As some of you will be aware I writing an evaluation of the project that you are running with the Easton Residents Network (ERN). My methodology for doing this has been one of action or participatory research; what this means is that I have come to the project with no pre-determined […]
Business Meeting – March 8th at The Chelsea 6.30 – 8.30
Provisional Agenda for Business meeting on the wiki at http://docs.psand.net/twiki/bin/view/CLAN/ClanAgendaNextMeeting All welcome, please attend, Bristol Wireless needs you :), several projects reaching critical stages.
Internet access for blind and partially sighted people
Bringing the Web to Life – Internet access for blind and partially sighted people Presented by Andy White RNIB Technology Officer Date: Thursday 17th June 2004 Time: 9.30 am to 4.00 pm Venue: RNIB Bristol Cost: £90.00 Code: AT3 An intermediate level course aimed at visually impaired people or those who are working with visually […]
Driver News
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/25/HNlinuxdriver_1.html Linux Centrino driver released A Canadian software company has produced a driver that will let Linux users make the most of Intel Corp.’s Centrino wireless chip set. Linuxant released DriverLoader 1.6 last week and is hoping to capitalize on a market that Intel itself has identified, promising in January that it will soon make […]
Getting support from Business 3 March – 10.00 am to 4.00 p
LAST MINUTE OPPORTUNITY – FREE PLACES AVAILABLE!!!!!!!!!!! Any volunteers to go on behalf of Bristol Wireless? Getting support from Business – The CREATE Centre – – lunch provided This course is for organisations with limited experience of gaining support from business. You will learn about the benefits of partnership, how to write a basic proposal […]
Next Bristol Wireless Business Meeting
We didn’t arrange a date or time for this so I’m going to unilaterally suggest 6.30pm – on Monday 8th March in the ICT suite at Easton Community Centre, (although venue will have to be confirmed).
More IoPP donations + Giveaway News
The Institute of Physics Publishing have come up with another 20 computers which will be distributed over the next 2 Thursdays to the course participants currently in their third week of training. Paul and Ben have been leading the training, and developing more course materials – http://irvken.homelinux.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Training Thanks to all those preparing the machines for […]
Local internet radio show opens
Forwarded from Bristol LUG mailing list – how is that radio course development going Paul? :). Hey all I’m currently involved in an internet radio station project. We have a 3 hour show each week, and for the other 24×6+21 hours the original show is looped.So I was thinking of maybe having a techie show […]
Laptop for Linux
<forward from info@bristolwireless.net> Hi, I heard about the Bristol Wireless project from a friend who met one of you chaps in a pub. Mmm, liquid networking. Great project, I’ll be watching the website. I’m on the lookout for a used laptop to run Linux. Something reasonably recent, as I will be running OpenOffice. Do you […]
Day time course delay
We have 5 people signed up for the evening course, but only 2 for the daytime course, so we’re going to delay the start of the second one to Thursday 12th Feb.
Feb 16th – Funding & Finance for Co-operatives
Bristol and Bath Co-operative Business Forum: Funding & Finance for Co-operatives There is funding and financing available for co-operatives in the former Avon area to meet start up, expansion and specific project costs. This event aims to inform co-operatives of these sources of finance and to give an opportunity to ask questions to representatives of […]
LLoyds TSB
I think all the banks do something like this. NatWest used to fund a couple of posts at the Barton Hill Workshop, but I think that might have ended now – http://www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk/
BT Community Connections
Anyone know of any groups that be encouraged to apply for this besides ourselves. The possibility exists of our pooling the bandwidth locally, in return for our support in applying perhaps. Please note that BT is currently reviewing the award scheme with a proposed launch date for Year Three of January 2004. BT Community Connections […]