[ubuntu-uk] Young Rewired State is in 1 week!
Hi all, Just a quick reminder that Young Rewired State Festival of Code start a week on Monday: https://youngrewiredstate.org/festival-of-code They are still accepting participants and could do with a few more mentors so if you know any 10-18 year olds who like technology and computers, get them to register; if you know anybody who has a bit of free time to mentor kids, get them to register as a mentor. It's all great fun! Cheers, Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Young Rewired State
I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups based on government data. Joe O'Dell was along as well, but sadly was too young to fully take part this year! There was a panel of judges including Andrew Stott, the government Director of Digital Engagement. Isabell's application GovSpark won a special prize for the app most likely to irritate the civil service which is great! The event is much more about Open Data than Open Source, the laptop of choice for the next generation of technology leaders is clearly the Macbook, but there were a number of Ubuntu laptops present (in fact the Manchester team did 20 application demos on Tim Dobson's Ubuntu laptop). The Young Rewired State will be run again next year, but they are looking for more sponsorship if you know an organisation interested in promoting technology innovation then point them in the direction of http://rewiredstate.org/pages/yrs-info-centres Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Young Rewired State
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 12:06 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups based on government data. Joe O'Dell was along as well, but sadly was too young to fully take part this year! There was a panel of judges including Andrew Stott, the government Director of Digital Engagement. Isabell's application GovSpark won a special prize for the app most likely to irritate the civil service which is great! Genius! Where can we get the app? Is it in Launchpad yet? ;-) Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Young Rewired State
On 7 Aug 2010, at 12:16, Bruno Girin wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 12:06 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups based on government data. Joe O'Dell was along as well, but sadly was too young to fully take part this year! There was a panel of judges including Andrew Stott, the government Director of Digital Engagement. Isabell's application GovSpark won a special prize for the app most likely to irritate the civil service which is great! Genius! Where can we get the app? Is it in Launchpad yet? ;-) Hi! It has a website, http://govspark.org.uk/ You can find more information at http://rewiredstate.org/projects/govspark or of course ask me. :-) I have a fair few tweets to read through along the lines of hey add this do this do that, but if anyone does have any comments, email is the best way to get a constructive and not abbreviated/rushed/shoved into 140 character response from me! Can I just point out, though, that the data is not live data yet, however that is definitely something I want to integrate. :-) Isabell. -- Isabell Long isabell...@gmail.com http://issyl0.co.uk/ PGP Key ID: EB83C2BD -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Young Rewired State
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 12:20:38 +0100 Isabell Long isabell...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 Aug 2010, at 12:16, Bruno Girin wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 12:06 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups based on government data. Joe O'Dell was along as well, but sadly was too young to fully take part this year! There was a panel of judges including Andrew Stott, the government Director of Digital Engagement. Isabell's application GovSpark won a special prize for the app most likely to irritate the civil service which is great! Genius! Where can we get the app? Is it in Launchpad yet? ;-) Hi! It has a website, http://govspark.org.uk/ You can find more information at http://rewiredstate.org/projects/govspark or of course ask me. :-) I have a fair few tweets to read through along the lines of hey add this do this do that, but if anyone does have any comments, email is the best way to get a constructive and not abbreviated/rushed/shoved into 140 character response from me! Can I just point out, though, that the data is not live data yet, however that is definitely something I want to integrate. :-) Isabell. I should imagine there are civil servants running around now try to see if they can get the data covered by the Official Secrets Act ;) I watched the presentations on ustream and was very impressed with all of them, some wonderful ideas. Anybody that wants to see the show and tell sessions, they are here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rewired-state the sound was a bit dodgy but you get the general gist of things. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Young Rewired State
On 7 August 2010 12:06, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups based on government data. Joe O'Dell was along as well, but sadly was too young to fully take part this year! There was a panel of judges including Andrew Stott, the government Director of Digital Engagement. Isabell's application GovSpark won a special prize for the app most likely to irritate the civil service which is great! The event is much more about Open Data than Open Source, the laptop of choice for the next generation of technology leaders is clearly the Macbook, but there were a number of Ubuntu laptops present (in fact the Manchester team did 20 application demos on Tim Dobson's Ubuntu laptop). The Young Rewired State will be run again next year, but they are looking for more sponsorship if you know an organisation interested in promoting technology innovation then point them in the direction of http://rewiredstate.org/pages/yrs-info-centres You forgot about TubeSmart and SociaLibrary (although I suppose I don't really take part that often here usually). Also, for anyone who thought to themselves that they'd use something like TubeSmart (the tube map with SVG circles on top) please pressure TfL into releasing the data via enqu...@tfl.gov.uk or @TfLoffficial on Twitter. Thanks! -- Harry Rickards - ha...@linux.com Vote Lib Dem - Building a fairer Britain - http://libdems.org.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Young Rewired State
I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups based on government data [...] Isabell's application GovSpark won a special prize for the app most likely to irritate the civil service which is great! The GovSpark idea is fantastic, and Isabell did really well :) Although there were cosmetic features added to by the mentors and by me, I think she deserves a round of applause (and a pink tux mouse!) for her achievements! Joe O'Dell was along as well, but sadly was too young to fully take part this year! Sure was! Isabell's presentation was on my laptop because she didn't want to take her new purchase into london! Next year, I will be participating! The event is much more about Open Data than Open Source, the laptop of choice for the next generation of technology leaders is clearly the Macbook, Well, yes :) However, OS X (more specifically Darwin) is based on Unix, and so has *some* open-ness to it. Better than what is churned out of Redmond! but there were a number of Ubuntu laptops present (in fact the Manchester team did 20 application demos on Tim Dobson's Ubuntu laptop). Yes, and a lot of the work was done either using Linux (mainly Ubuntu) or open-source software (I noticed jEdit floating around somewhere, not just on my mac). Thanks everyone that attended and supported the people like Isbaell - it was especially good to see Alan there in Ubuntu Aubergine! You forgot about TubeSmart and SociaLibrary (although I suppose I don't really take part that often here usually). Also, for anyone who thought to themselves that they'd use something like TubeSmart (the tube map with SVG circles on top) please pressure TfL into releasing the data via enqu...@tfl.gov.uk or @TfLoffficial on Twitter. Thanks! Oh yes, I nearly forgot too! (Joking!) TfL have released APIs for thigns like that (although not for crowded-ness). The people you need to get on to are data.london.gov.uk as well as TfL! Well done everyone, and I look forward to seeing some of you next year! Joe --- Joe O'Dell GreenerClassrooms Project Co-Ordinator http://www.greenerclassrooms.org.uk Fedora Ambassador Contributor (FreeMedia) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ascenseur bedsLUG Co-Ordinator beds.lug.org.uk DFEY Member (SouthEast) dfey.org On 7 Aug 2010, at 12:06, Alan Bell wrote: . JThere was a panel of judges including Andrew Stott, the government Director of Digital Engagement. The Young Rewired State will be run again next year, but they are looking for more sponsorship if you know an organisation interested in promoting technology innovation then point them in the direction of http://rewiredstate.org/pages/yrs-info-centres Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Young Rewired State
On 07/08/10 12:06, Alan Bell wrote: I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups based on government data. Joe O'Dell was along as well, but sadly was too young to fully take part this year! There was a panel of judges including Andrew Stott, the government Director of Digital Engagement. Isabell's application GovSpark won a special prize for the app most likely to irritate the civil service which is great! The event is much more about Open Data than Open Source, the laptop of choice for the next generation of technology leaders is clearly the Macbook, but there were a number of Ubuntu laptops present (in fact the Manchester team did 20 application demos on Tim Dobson's Ubuntu laptop). :P Considering there were about 30 apps in total and 14 were from Manchester and were demo'd on my Thinkpad running Ubuntu you can twist the stats in our direction if you want. (not very representative though!) All the Young Rewired State Manchester applications are currently linked from http://dev.dfey.org including the farcical html5 ones. :P If you're based in Manchester then you may be interested in some of the buss timetable applications we built. Again, you can play with everything on http://dev.dfey.org :) For victims who didn't suffer yesterday, the YRS Manchester video is here: http://tdobson.net/node/422 Thanks again to everyone! Cheers, Tim -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Young Rewired State :: 2nd-6th August
Apologies for the blatant offtopicness, but recently I've been thinking it's how it's more important than ever to get young people aware and engaged with digital issues. (Please forward this email to anyone you think it might interest) This email is Manchester specific, but Young Rewired State is happening across the UK. :) - What is Young Rewired State? Young Rewired State (YRS) is a initiative that aims to support young developers and coders in using public data to build apps, websites and anything else that people may use. It is about mashing up and getting out there with data people may not have seen or experienced before. - Who can take part? Anyone aged between 15-18. - When is it? YRS will take place *next week* between Monday 2nd August and Friday 6th August 2010 - Where is it taking place? YRS is taking place at centres across the country - there are centres in Brighton, London, Norwich, Oxford, Birmingham and Manchester. In Manchester we will be based at the MadLab - a space well-known for digital collaboration in the city centre. - What will happen? We will meet on the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the MadLab and work together on ideas and developments. On Friday 6th August we will take the train down to London to meet the other teams, show tell our work and perhaps win a prize! - Do I need to have skills? The nature of Young Rewired State means that people will get quite technical however we are looking more for a mindset rather than simply technical skills. If you have programming experience then you are very welcome and if you are interested in developing apps, websites or good uses of public data, then by all means come along. Basically, we want you to have 'tinkered' with computers in your own time and of your own accord. - What time will it be each day? We can meet at MadLab at 10.30am each day, and try and finish around 5pm or so. - Who else is involved? In Manchester we are supported by the MadLab and staff from Substance, Blackpool Council and Digital Freedom in Education and Youth. All support staff will be CRB checked and we will always be in a group. - How much does the whole week cost to attend? It's free to attend. Nada. Nothing. £0.00. All we ask is that you commit to turning up on time each day. :) - Do I need to register? Yes - there is a central registration form at YRS (http://events.osmosoft.com/recipes/yrs/tiddlers.wiki ), but if you would be as kind to email us to let us know that you've registered we can pass information straight over to you! - What else do I need to do? We need to know that you've told an responsible adult as to where you'll be - particularly if you come to London. By all means, put them in contact with us, if there is anything not clear? - So, why should I do this? YRS is the great opportunity to develop the next killer app whilst getting a headstart into IT and meeting people at the cutting edge of technology! - It's been a long time since I was 18 but this sounds rather exciting, is there any way I can lend a hand? Yes! Can you forward this email to anyone who would be interested in attending? Please do pass it on! We are looking for extra sponsors and mentors. Donations of developer time, money or prizes would be very gratefully recieved. Contact the organisers: Tim Dobson/Steven Flower: y...@tdobson.net Tim: 01457 597 007 --- P.S. Sorry if you've recieved this via several lists -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
