Author: Matt Jukes

  • Sound of the Drumbeat

    For a couple of reasons this week the Mozilla Drumbeat project popped back onto my radar after a brief previous blip a while ago when it was first announced. This time I have had a proper look and the more I learn the more interested in it I get. As anyone who has read this…

  • [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…