Archives for the ‘Community’ Category

Node101 - sharing skills on video blogging

By Rosie Sherry • Jan 17th, 2008 • Category: Community, Education, Events

Node101 is a worldwide open source project designed to spread videoblogging. The idea is to change media from a one way conversation towards a dialogue. Node101 aims to teach anyone through supportive resources and skillsharing.
Organisers of Node101 in the UK recently organised a Navlopomo screening at The Werks which really showed a great [...]



Café Scientifique Brighton

By Ian Ozsvald • Jan 16th, 2008 • Category: Community, Events

Last night Davina Bristow of the BBC spoke at the monthly Café Scientifique on “The Neuroscience of Love”. Davina gave a good account of recent research into attraction, sex and relationships with reference to work on reptiles, fish and humans.
What struck me as really interesting was that the talk had to be held in [...]



A Bright(on) start to 2008

By Rosie Sherry • Jan 7th, 2008 • Category: Community, Education, Events

At the end of 2007 there was no doubt that the technology community had gone social. There have even been some predictions there will be a social burnout. However, only 7 days into the new year and there is so much to talk about already!Here’s a breakdown of what’s coming up:

Farm Web Freelancers [...]



Charity Christmas Geek Dinner

By Rosie Sherry • Dec 11th, 2007 • Category: Community, Events

The 28th of November saw a collaboration of the girl geeks and the guy geeks to bring one big Charity Christmas Geek Dinner.
Rather than repeat things too much, I thought it would better to link to a few write ups that have been written by myself, Simon & Winky.
The Geek Dinners are always a bit [...]



£5 App Xmas Special

By Ian Ozsvald • Dec 8th, 2007 • Category: Community

On Tuesday John and I ran our 9th £5 App - our Xmas Special. We had a grand turn-out of 39 people situated with beer in the Quadrant Pub in the heart of Brighton (pictures - thanks Jane, John and the rest).
First up Annesley talked about his DaoConsumer IE plugin - it lets users [...]



Brighton OpenStreetMap launches

By Rosie Sherry • Dec 4th, 2007 • Category: Community

On the face, it may seem like a crazy idea to get people to create a collaborative map. Just as Wikipedia was received with sceptism, OpenStreetMap seems even more crazy, difficult or even impossible.
The fact that the whole of Brighton has been mapped by individuals is testimony that we have a committed digital and [...]