Quite a few years ago now I organised a ‘fringe’ event to the UKOER conference in a local pub the night before. It turned out to be an interesting evening with speakers from Creative Commons and P2PU (still thankful to Pippa and Nathan) and some notable attendees from both Canada (Brian and Scott) and all…

The ‘Github for Government’ was interesting if not really what I was expecting from the description. Part of the problem is that I think that while there are clearly some parallels between open source and open data there were less than Ben from Github seemed to be suggesting and thus the premise was a bit…

Despite being good last night and leaving the pub at a decent hour I still managed to be late this morning and as such missed the start of the Anil Dash opening keynote 😦 (luckily its available online – though there is some dead space at the start ) I did show up in time…

I’ll admit my only real understanding of the concept of ‘science fairs’ comes from a mild addiction when I was younger to shows of the ‘Saved by the Bell’ genre. So any such event without Screech is a little bit of a let down. The #mozfest version is however something to behold. There were apparently…

This years Mozilla Festival kicks off on Friday with its traditional ‘science fair’ evening reception. I missed last years Mozilla Festival but I am a veteran of the original outing in Barcelona (then called Drumbeat) and also the first one at Ravensbourne in London. I’m not really a hack day kind of guy but have…