Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Making the case for a FOSS CMS

    Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on a project to make the case for using an open source CMS for a big project and I thought I’d share some of the work I’ve been doing here – nit sure how helpful it would be for anyone else though! The big glaring…

  • Back the Bid! Bringing Wikimania to Bristol

    Wikimania is the annual conference for the Wikimedia Foundation (so basically the Wikipedia conference). This year it is in Washington, D.C. and in previous years it has taken place in Haifa, Gdańsk, Buenos Aires, Alexandria, Taipei, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Frankfurt. The host city is chosen, not surprisingly, in an open, wiki-like manner by members of…

  • The Westeas (a Teacamp for the West)

    I have a feeling that there might be an opportunity to maintain some kind of community off the back of #govwest and while interest is high in public sector digital projects due to things like GOVUK but also as Carl mentioned in his talk the perception that web services might equal cost savings! One of…

  • Gov:West thoughts

    So despite promising myself I wouldn’t run any more events I had this nagging idea for a Govcamp inspired mini-conference (I bottled the unconference idea!) consisting of local speakers and the odd guest from the ‘smoke’. Thanks to some seed funding from the UKGovcamp gang and equally importantly the opportunity of making it a part…

  • What is inside INSIDE GOVERNMENT? #govuk

    Last night at a little before 9pm the latest ‘launch’ from GDS Towers took place and professionally this was very much the deliverable I had the most interest in. INSIDE GOVERNMENT (more cap-tastic action!) was formerly known as the ‘Whitehall’ project or occasionally refered to as the ‘corporate publishing platform’ and it is the activity…