Friday fun
There’s been a lull in carrying the standard for open source this Friday afternoon and our volunteers are indulging in some recreation, as you can see below: Normal service will be resumed on Monday…. honest! 🙂
Category Archives: Local IT News
We’ve been working somewhere secret
Regular readers will recall that we paid a site visit to Somerset wildlife sanctuary Secret World a couple of weeks ago (news passim) to do a survey for some networking they wanted doing. Bristol Wireless’ Rich and Acesabe paid a return visit earlier today to carry out the actual work. It’s worth mentioning here that […]
ForgeRock recruiting in Bristol
Our friends at Bristol 24/7 recently reported that open source software supplier ForgeRock was moving its UK headquarters to Bristol’s historic Queen Square. Even more recently, Connecting Bristol alerted us that ForgeRock is recruiting staff for its Bristol office. Connecting Bristol’s post also indicates that successful candidates for ForgeRock’s jobs in Bristol will also have […]
Kebele on the network
Yesterday Bristol Wireless volunteer Acesabe paid a site visit to Easton’s Kebele Community Coop to connect them to the Bristol Wireless network. Being the good lad he is, Acesabe kept us informed throughout the process as evidenced by the following sample tweet: Another wireless link in, our northern most in Easton yet! He also documented […]
A big welcome to Neave
This week we’re pleased to have a new face in the lab – Neave Kenny, who’s with us for the week on a work experience placement, as tweeted earlier today by the chief scribe. a big welcome to Neave, who joins us today for a week’s work experience. — BristolWireless.net (@BristolWireless) June 18, 2012 Needless […]
Found a notspot? Tell Connecting Bristol
This afternoon our friends at Connecting Bristol posted the tweet below on Twitter. So, now you know what to do when you find poor connectivity about the city. 🙂
Bristol leads UK in work wifi use
The chief scribe has been known to sit in his local café writing posts to this blog using the establishment’s wifi whilst waiting for his full English and toast to arrive; and it seems he’s not alone. Quoting a study by Rupert Murdoch’s Sky, Bristol 24/7 reports that nearly 1 in 3 Bristolians – 31% […]
Open Rights Group: Censorship and Surveillance Campaign Training
Today the UK Government introduced its Snooper’s Charter proposals (aka as the draft Communications Data Bill. Ed.). To coincide with the announcement of this proposed draconian legislation, the Open Rights Group has announced a series of censorship and surveillance campaign sessions. The ORG is billing these sessions as “training that will equip activists to help […]
Local bus service to have wifi
According to the Post, Bristol’s paper of record (Ahem! Ed.), buses servicing the X1 route between Bristol and Weston Super Mare are to be upgraded with free wifi and leather seats (Kinky. Ed.). To quote the Post: BUSES which run between Bristol and Weston-super-Mare have been fitted with leather seats and free Wi-Fi to attract […]
It’s Pi day
Now that “Queenie’s little bash” (© Mr Treasurer 😉 ) is over, we Bristol Wireless volunteers are shaking off our torpor and shuffling back to the lab. When the chief scribe arrived, he was most taken with a hardware donation we’ve had. We’re no strangers to hardware donations: indeed, some of our earliest kit came […]
Council shells out so Hackspace can lay eggs
Connecting Bristol inform us that our friends at Bristol Hackspace will be arranging a workshop to build some Air Quality Eggs which will then be deployed around Bristol. Air Quality Eggs are low-cost environmental sensors capable of sensing NO2, CO2, O3, VOC and radiation. The workshop will take place in August (the exact date is […]
Bristol Wikimania 2013 bid fails
Bristol’s bid to host Wikimania in 2013 (news passim) has been unsuccessful.The following email was posted to the Wikimania mailing list yesterday: Dear all, It is my pleasure to announce that the jury has been able to come up with an intermediate result – and I would like to share with you the fact that […]
CiviCRM training coming to Exeter in June
A CiviCRM training session will be held in Exeter from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm on Tuesday 12th June at Exeter CVS, King William Street, Exeter, EX4 6PD (map) This will be comprehensive hands-on training course covering the configuration, administration and every-day use of CiviCRM. The event is aimed at administrators and users in organisations […]
Bristol bids to host Wikimania in 2013
Wikimania is an annual international conference for users of the various projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation (e.g. Wikipedia and its sister projects). It includes presentations and discussions include Wikimedia Foundation projects, other wikis, open source software, free knowledge and free content, and the different social and technical aspects which relate to these topics. It’s […]
We’re giving a talk
Tonight Bristol Wireless volunteers Jules and BenG are going to the Novers Park Community Centre to visit South Bristol Amateur Radio Club to give a talk on the work of Bristol Wireless. Jules has offered to do a write-up following the talk, so call back soon to read the details! 🙂
Yesterday’s Evening Post
Yesterday Bristol’s Evening Post, the city’s newspaper of record (really? Ed.), carried the news of Bristol Wireless’ shortlisting for the Santander Social Enterprise Awards (which were being organised locally in conjunction with the Quartet Community Foundation). We’d originally applied for the award after a report on them was spotted by a keen-eyed Bristol Wireless volunteer […]
A special offer for Bristolians
TCP/IP is the open framework that makes the internet work. Of that framework, we’d like to draw your attention today to the IP bit. IP stands for Internet Protocol, of course (and not Intellectual Property address, as once written by the Digital Britain Minister in the last government. Ed.), and every device connecting to a […]
Regional supercomputing centre set to revolutionise research
The University of Bristol has announced it has joined forces with the Universities of Oxford, Southampton and University College London to form a Centre for Innovation to share state-of-the-art equipment and world-leading skills, speeding up the rate at which complex data can be processed and will play key role in a new £3.7 million regional […]
Bristol Hackspace chat channel
Our friends at Bristol Hackspace now have a chat channel, as testified by the following status update on Twitter. We have an IRC channel. Chat with us on irc.freenode.net in #bristolhackspace or on the website: http://bristol.hackspace.org.uk/chat/ We might see you in there for a natter sometime! 🙂
Latest CiviCRM release – now with WordPress integration
The latest release (version 4.1.1) of CiviCRM, the open source customer relationship management (CRM) system for non-profits, NGOs and advocacy organisations, now features integration for WordPress, in addition to its traditional integration for the Joomla and Drupal content management systems. Read the original release announcement. It looks as if there’s going to be plenty to […]