Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • [JISC] Weeknote 17/33

    Well that was a busy old week. The Survive or Thrive conference took place in Manchester on Tuesday and Wednesday and after a morning of emails and Skype calls I traveled up Monday afternoon. The event was a great success I think with many great presentations, some very interesting conversations and a real opportunity (for…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 16/33

    Really short update this week. It has been a horribly disjointed week starting with a bank holiday and ending with me feeling pretty unwell and in-between some of the worst train journeys I have experienced. The big thing this week was a steering group meeting in York for one of our biggest national scale projects…

  • Ignite Bristol: The Sequel

    The venue and date for the second helping of Ignite in Bristol has been announced; it is going to be at the Tobacco Factory Theatre on the 15th July. This is quite an upgrade from the original venue – almost doubling the capacity and I guess it will make it easier to sort the filming…

  • CC Salon NYC – Open Education

    I was browsing the Creative Commons website (as one does!) and was particularly taken with the idea of the CC Salons‘ – small, local events based around themes of interest to the Creative Commons community. They seem to mainly be evening events not dissimilar to what Mike does with Bathcamp and I think that is…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 15/33

    Well that was an interesting week. I awoke Monday morning to a Twitter stream full of rumors about the imminent closure of Becta and significant worries about the future of HEFCE and by implication JISC. Lovely way to start the week. As it happened the rumors regarding Becta were correct and while it is fair…