Chief scribe
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 […]
Subscribers to our mailing list will be aware that our long-time colleague & friend Lloyd Cohen passed away suddenly and unexpectedly at the end of August. Lloyd was heavily involved in the development of the Bristol Wireless network when it evolved from a purely local area project around Easton to a city-wide infrastructure when the […]
Over the last few days Bristol Wireless volunteers Rich, Amias, Acesabe and Mark have been working to upgrade the network connection we provide to Rosevear sheltered housing scheme for the elderly in Newtown, Bristol. This has seen our volunteers at work not just in Rosevear itself, but also on the top of Twinnell House in […]
Some months ago Bristol Wireless were asked by Easton Community Centre to provide some new LTSP thin clients in secure cabinets, similar to those already installed in St Werburgh’s Community Centre (news passim), whilst regular readers may recall our first post on the Mk. II cabinets. The first of the cabinets was delivered to Easton […]
Every couple of years or so, just like the occasional omnibuses rumoured (and in some circles believed. Ed.) to provide a service to the travelling public, trundles up a story about wi-fi being implemented on public transport services. The last one of these that your correspondent can recall off the top of his head involved […]
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 […]
Regular readers will be aware of the existence of Tux, the Linux kernel mascot (news passim) and now if you live in the United States, you’ll be able to show your commitment to free and open source software by carrying a Tux-branded Visa credit card, courtesy of the Linux Foundation, the non-profit organisation dedicated to […]
Your correspondent (for his sins. Ed.😀 ), in addition to filling the role of press officer for Bristol Wireless, also acts as the co-operative’s Company Secretary. As a part of that that role the following email has today been circulated on Bristol Wireless’ general mailing list: Hi all One of my duties as company secretary […]
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 […]
Our old friend John Palfrey has emailed us with an update and picture of his Linux Lounge bus, which is gradually coming together as a showcase for open source IT and green energy technologies. The bus is a 1984 MCW Mk11 Metrobus, 9.5m in length and is powered by a 10.5L 6 cylinder Gardner engine. […]
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 […]
Regular readers will be aware that Bristol Wireless’ move to Hamilton House (news passim) is imminent, i.e. this coming weekend. Quite independently of our move, the Bristol Evening Post is today carrying a feature on Hamilton House and its role in the transformation of Stokes Croft. The piece includes the following on ourselves: Among the […]
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 more than 3 very happy and enjoyable years in St Werburghs Community Centre, the Bristol Wireless lab is on the move this month to Hamilton House on Stokes Croft. Of course, moving is one of life’s stresses – and this is also true of organisations; there’s lots of sorting out and packing to be […]
Yesterday Jules, our Bristol Wireless treasurer, took delivery of a brand new Eee PC. Needless to say, Jules chose a model with Linux – a proper operating system. Moreover, ever since he bought it he has had his nose stuck in reference materials and been hacking it around to customise it to meet his needs. […]
vnunet.com reports that almost 2 years after the WEEE disposal rules came into force, the UK is still lagging behind the rest of Western Europe in recycling electrical goods. Research by Dell found that 13 per cent of UK consumers do not recycle electrical goods at all – more than four times the figure in […]
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 […]