After my presentation at Edinburgh tech meet-up I meet Kate Ho from Scotland Geek Girls who asked me if I would like to present at the September dinner. I was pleasantly surprised and quite taken back by the offer. I spent the next while polishing up my slides to represent more about what OLPC as a project does rather then just a pure technology stack look which was the angle I took for the Edinburgh…
Went to see the Edinburgh Mobile Meet-up that i had heard so much about. It is put on at Inspace in Edinburgh University, the space is lovely. The whole area is painted white to act like a Canvas for the artworks to be displayed on. The Life Turns exhibition at http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/outreach/inspace Inspace was still on display. Life turns was a new media exhibition which enabled people to download an iphone app and take a series…
Another event being put on by Ollie Saunders is the Edinburgh HackerSpace Opening. This will be on Friday the 17th of September. I will miss it unfortunately as I will be in London. But if you are in Edinburgh pop in and check it out fun for all Geeks. http://wiki.edinburghhacklab.com/%E2%80%9D Edinburgh Hacklab
I was lucky enough to see <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee present at the keynote for Over the Air on Saturday. He gave a very casual informal speech about the internet where it is headed, the importance of semantic web, the need for all people to have equal access to information. It was inspiring and I was lucky enough to be sitting up close with a perfect view of the man who invented HTML. Later that day I…
I raced from Caen Twitter meet-up onto a ferry into Portsmith, England then a train into London to the Imperial College to Over the Air conference which was on the 9th and 10th of September. All I can say is WOW ok one of the best planned conferences I have ever been to and also it was FREE. The conference is focused on the Web and the latest happenings. There was presentations on all platforms,…
The London web Meet-up organiser Nathan O’Hanlon decided to make the 16 September meet-up something different by holding it on a ferry as it cruised up and down the Thames. http://www.meetup.com/londonweb/calendar/13824435/ I went with my friend Tom Bamford a fellow Drupalista. There was a presentation by Andy Hume from Clear Left about “the Progressive Web” great talk I was really impressed. There were also three shorter talks from Mozilla on HTML5 and building Mozilla plug-ins.…