Posts tagged open source

Links for 2008-06-24

• BBC plans £68m network of local video news websites [Guardian]
• The perils of choice on the radio [James Cridland]
• The power of postcodes [Puffbox]
• Open source hardware [The Economist]

New venue for WordCamp UK

The venue for WordCamp UK has been changed - it’s now going to be at The Studio in Birmingham.

This is very close to the previously planned venue and so should not prove to be a problem for those travelling from outside Birmingham.

Details of how to book tickets for the event, to be held 19-20 July 2008, will be released shortly.

For full details go to the WordCamp UK wiki.

RepRap builds RepRap

The Replicating Rapid-prototyper (RepRap) has built a copy of itself.

The Bath University 3D printer has built another version of itself.

Amazing!

Find out more at the RepRap site.

Linux and Unix timelines

These are impressive.

GNU/Linux distro timeline, covering 1992 to the present, and Unix history, which includes a Unix timeline spanning 1969 to now.

The explosion of Linux distributions over the past eight years or so is particularly eye opening.

Aston WordCamp UK venue

Following intrepid research by Birmingham-based WordCamp UK mailing list members a venue for the event has been secured.

WordCamp UK will be held at Aston University Lakeside Centre, Birmingham, Saturday and Sunday 19-20 July 2008.

Many thanks to Ian Covey for organising the venue.

For full details go to the WordCamp UK wiki.

Social surplus

Excellent post by Clay Shirky.

A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken…

WordCamp UK venue sought

It looks like WordCamp UK is now going to be 19-20 July 2008 in Birmingham.

We’re now looking for a suitable venue.

WordCamp UK show of hands

At this stage in planning for WordCamp UK it would be extremely useful to get a show of hands indicating the number of people likely to attend.

This will help in making arrangements such as booking a suitable venue.

Following discussion on the WordCamp UK mailing list the following assumptions are currently being made:

• Dates - Saturday and Sunday 19-20 July 2008.
• Location - Birmingham.

Therefore could everyone indicate if they can attend WordCamp UK, making these assumptions, by adding their name to the attendees page on the event wiki.

It would be useful if responses could be made by 1200 (GMT) on Friday 18 April 2008 at the latest.

Hopefully this will give us a good idea of numbers likely to attend.