Regular readers will be aware that on 13th January, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, will be giving at talk in at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol (news passim). In the meantime news has been received from Ask Bristol that there will be a live webcast of the event. As Ask Bristol stated recently on […]
Over at Connecting Bristol, a forthcoming event has been announced for the end of the month. Entitled “Apps for Communities”, it will be held at the Council House, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TR (map) on 28th and 29th January 2011. It is being jointly hosted by Bristol City Council, Local by Social and the Connecting […]
Our resident purveyor of bah-humbug writes: It’s that time of year again; even the normally secular Bristol Wireless lab has started to acquire greetings cards. However, there’s another reason to celebrate 25th December: Sir Isaac Newton, a man of gravitas, was born on that day in 1642 (under the old calendar reckoning. Ed). Visiting the […]
Yesterday, Rich, Jules and yours truly were representing Bristol Wireless at a Connecting Bristol event (news passim) at the Watershed entitled ‘The Digital Challenge is Over – The Digital Opportunity is Here’. It was good to see some old (not in the geriatric sense. Ed.), familiar faces: Kevin and Stephen from Connecting Bristol, Stephen Dodson […]
The Government’s £7 mn. Digital Challenge, launched in 2007, is over but, according to Connecting Bristol, ‘digital’ has more to offer Bristol than ever before. Bristol City Council, the Watershed, Knowle West Media Centre and local digital agency Nameless are sending an open invitation to you to an open meeting at 2.00 pm on Monday, […]
An email’s arrived from Steve Virgin of Wikimedia UK to say that Jimmy Wales, the man behind Wikipedia, is coming to Bristol on 13th January 2011. He’ll be appearing at the Victoria Rooms (map) on that day between 12.00 and 13.00. This is a special event to mark 10 years of Wikipedia, featuring the man […]
News reaches the lab that the Digital Challenge, set up nationwide some three years ago to promote digital inclusion, has come to an end. One spin-off of the Digital Challenge was the formation of the DC10plus network, which was formed 3 years ago by the 10 Digital Challenge finalists (of which the city of Bristol […]
Today, 30th July 2010, the last Friday of July, is the 11th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. It’s a day to appreciate those people who look after your IT from unpacking new hardware from its box, installing operating systems, configuring said systems, fitting cabling and other infrastructure and basically dealing with anything afterwards that crops […]
On 9th June 2010 the inaugural meeting of the Bristol ICT Training Forum was held at Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC). The intention of which was to explore the possibility of starting an ICT training consortium, including collaborative bidding for funding. The following organisations were represented: John Sawbridge (City of Bristol), Jim Farrand (Bristol Wireless), […]
The Ubuntu UK community and Canonical, the commercial sponsors of Ubuntu, are currently inviting folk to a very different type of IT event being held on Tuesday, 13th July in London between 1 pm and 5 pm. The venue is The Brickhouse, 152c Brick Lane, London, E1 6RU (map). The nearest Tube station to the […]
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 areas of alternative media, renewable energy, online video distribution, free software or any other form […]
On 19th and 20th June this year, Bletchley Park, former home of Blighty’s World War 2 code breakers (when it was known as Station X. Ed.) and now the home of the National Museum of Computing, will be hosting Britain’s first ever Vintage Computer Festival (VCF). The event is being billed as a unique gathering […]
Yer ‘umble scribe, wearing his company secretary’s hat, has just emailed the members the following notice: NOTICE OF AGM The Annual General Meeting of Bristol Wireless for 2009 will be held at 6.00 pm on Tuesday 1st June 2010 in the Lab, Hamilton House, Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3QY. It will be followed by our […]
From Friday 14th to Sunday 16th May 2010, Wikimedia UK will host Wikimedia delegates from around the world who will be meeting in Bristol. This meeting is a three-day summit to discuss technical and strategic issues that cover the work the global Wikimedia Foundation and its national chapters do in relation to the worldwide fundraising […]
Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) is a busy place these days. This morning your scribe’s inbox received a cunning invitation to an event they’re organising from 4 pm to 6 pm on Friday 21 May, otherwise known as Silver Surfers’ Day 2010, a national series of events to promote the use of digital technologies by […]
Yesterday John Honniball emailed a reminder for the Bristol Dorkbot (tagline: “People doing strange things with electricity”. Ed.) event, taking place this coming Tuesday, 20th April. John writes: A reminder about the next Dorkbot Bristol meeting at the Pervasive Media Studio (map). It’ll be on the 20th April at 7pm until about 10pm. It’s a […]
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 publish our news and a free WordPress blog from WordPress.com is an easy route for […]
Not to be confused with tomorrow, April Fools’ Day, today, 31st March 2010 is Document Freedom Day – that time of year when those of us in the open source movement highlight the use of open standards for documents, that lifeblood of any organisation. One thought that strikes me when thinking about open formats is […]
Earlier this week on Monday, Bristol’s Watershed (“home of the laptoperati” – event quote. Ed.) played host on Monday evening to Connecting Bristol‘s Green Open & Social event. The event was so well attended there was a waiting list for tickets due to over-subscription. As with many Connecting Bristol events, it was also streamed live […]
Our friends at Connecting Bristol have asked for our assistance in publicising their Green, Open and Social event being held at 6 pm on Monday, 22nd March 2010. Connecting Bristol’s Kevin O’Malley writes: Connecting Bristol are hosting a free event on 22nd March exploring the way that the principles of Green, Open and Social Computing […]