Conference

Turing Festival – Edinburgh

23 – 25 August I was excited to be heading back from DrupalCon to the Turing festival,¬†unfortunately¬†due to date cross overs I was unable to attend the earlier part of the festival however we were able to make some dates. I took my friend @pimunchers along with me to the festival as its always nice to have another ubergeek around to bounce tech ideas from. We were able to make it to a legal discussion…

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News Software

Mozilla OS >> It is no longer a pipe dream

“I have been following MozillaOS for awhile now but this week I got to meet some people in Mozilla HQ in London who were responsible for pushig it forward. I can not tell you how excited I was. I have been watching this project since its announcement as I feel that it will be a real game changer for the Mobile Marketpace. Why do I think this? There are a couple of reasons that I…

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Conference

DrupalCon Munich

20 to 24th August So another year another DrupalCon 😀 Was so happy to have made it back to Europe for DrupalCon after getting sick last year it was great to be able to attend again. There was so many old faces makes you realise how long you have been around the community. The conference was great keynote from Dries as usual was an interesting look at what is coming up in the next little…

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Hardware

Meeting Raspberry Pi Maker

At the Turing Festival in Edinburgh I attended the start-up after party. It was great had been 2years since I had been in Edinburgh so seeing so many faces was awesome got to catch up with a couple of old friends and also got to meet Eben Upton from Raspberry Pi and have a quick chat about licensing, Open Source, OLPC and there next steps. Was a real honour meeting him as I had watched…

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Education

Young Rewired State Finals

10 to 12 August So the week was a success and the teams headed down to Birmingham to present there ideas. The Friday was spent locked up in rooms practicing their presentations and then finally presenting to a group of judges who would pick the winners for the Saturday presentation. The Saturday presentation was huge there was about 500 people or more packed into the hall which was lit up with amazing sculptures and LED lighting effects. The winners…

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Meet-Up

Drupal meet-up Manchester

7 September So I took the Virgin fast train down to Manchester to visit Paul Johnson to attend the Manchester UK Drupal meet-up and to discuss Drupal con Sydney Social Media Lead responsibilities. The trip down was great as I had¬†received¬†a first class ticket from Virgin due to the problems with the Glasgow to London train. Comfortable ride, nice food and great wifi. I stayed at an old hotel near the train lines. It reminded…

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