I know this conversation has now ended, but I'd just like to briefly
suggest that subsequent projects be promoted around Computer Science
departments in Universities around the country. Students often have
more time, are looking for projects that they'd enjoy hacking around
with and are looking for ways in which they can demonstrate their
employability. They also have the flexibility to be creative, and you
only need a few good ideas to start coming in before other people get
equally enthused.
Perhaps it's a failing of the UK technical community that we're
disconnected from the students and that there are so many non-
technical people in the middle of it (and that the more technical
people are so extraordinarily busy)?
On 1 Sep 2005, at 16:00, Duncan Barclay wrote:
It does seem like a lot of people have had a lack of time.
Personally I didn't find it too hard to parse the listings,
although it could have been easier with a simpler format. I think
I have made it clear that developing something around a BBC led
theme isn't really a problem for me :)
I have actually got a "prototype", although it isn't finished
enough to really be submitted just now. Should be done by the
deadline though. I have already got the tv listings on a web page,
easily scrollable, etc. Hopefully it will be great by the weekend.
Duncan
Ben Metcalfe wrote:
Dear all,
I'm writing to let you know that the inaugural backstage.bbc.co.uk
competition hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. In fact, at the
time of sending this we haven’t received any entries at all.
backstage.bbc.co.uk is very much about the BBC experimenting with
new ways of engaging with it’s expert user base, and clearly this
specific exercise hasn’t worked. backstage.bbc.co.uk also strives
to be a publicly open and transparent project, which is why I am
writing to communicate this to you all.
Moving forward, I’ve been trying to think about why this has
happened – and my guess is that it comes to one of two possibilities:
* The TV schedule data we provided over-complicated and in an
alien format that was difficult to parse, or
* The idea of developing around a BBC-led theme, even for a prize,
isn’t an approach that is of interest to the backstage.bbc.co.uk
community.
I’m keen to gather whether either/both of these reasons are the
case, or maybe there’s something else I’ve completely missed?
All of your thoughts and views are very subject are very much
appreciated, so I’d be really grateful if you could let me know
what you think – either publicly on this mailing list or privately
(ben.metcalfe [at] bbc.co.uk).
I don’t want to pre-empt your views on this, so I will get back to
you with some more thoughts and action points on my part, once I
am able to gauge where we stand (and thus what we need to do
differently next time).
Many thanks
Ben Metcalfe
Project Lead, backstage.bbc.co.uk
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