> 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 [...] > Isabell's application GovSpark won a special prize for the app most > likely to irritate the civil service which is great!
The GovSpark idea is fantastic, and Isabell did really well :) Although there were cosmetic features added to by the mentors and by me, I think she deserves a round of applause (and a pink tux mouse!) for her achievements! > Joe O'Dell was along as well, but sadly was > too young to fully take part this year! Sure was! Isabell's presentation was on my laptop because she didn't want to take her new purchase into london! Next year, I will be participating! > The event is much > more about Open Data than Open Source, the laptop of choice for the next > generation of technology leaders is clearly the Macbook, Well, yes :) However, OS X (more specifically Darwin) is based on Unix, and so has *some* open-ness to it. Better than what is churned out of Redmond! > but there were > a number of Ubuntu laptops present (in fact the Manchester team did 20 > application demos on Tim Dobson's Ubuntu laptop). Yes, and a lot of the work was done either using Linux (mainly Ubuntu) or open-source software (I noticed jEdit floating around somewhere, not just on my mac). Thanks everyone that attended and supported the people like Isbaell - it was especially good to see Alan there in "Ubuntu Aubergine"! > You forgot about TubeSmart and SociaLibrary (although I suppose I > don't really take part that often here usually). Also, for anyone who > thought to themselves that they'd use something like TubeSmart (the > tube map with SVG circles on top) please pressure TfL into releasing > the data via [email protected] or @TfLoffficial on Twitter. Thanks! Oh yes, I nearly forgot too! (Joking!) TfL have released APIs for thigns like that (although not for crowded-ness). The people you need to get on to are data.london.gov.uk as well as TfL! Well done everyone, and I look forward to seeing some of you next year! Joe ------------------------------------------------------- Joe O'Dell GreenerClassrooms Project Co-Ordinator http://www.greenerclassrooms.org.uk Fedora Ambassador & Contributor (FreeMedia) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ascenseur bedsLUG Co-Ordinator beds.lug.org.uk DFEY Member (SouthEast) dfey.org On 7 Aug 2010, at 12:06, Alan Bell wrote: > . JThere was a panel of judges > including Andrew Stott, the government Director of Digital Engagement. > > > The Young Rewired State will be run again next year, but they are > looking for more sponsorship if you know an organisation interested in > promoting technology innovation then point them in the direction of > http://rewiredstate.org/pages/yrs-info-centres > > Alan. > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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