On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 12:20:38 +0100 Isabell Long <[email protected]> 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 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
