Digital by Default

Category: events

  • Doing dConstruct

    After trying and failing to get tickets for the previous 2 years I have finally made it to dConstruct in sunny Brighton. Its slightly hard to describe dconstruct as an event. In theory its a web event…but no one really talks about the web. It most resembles a full day of the talks I would…

  • Open Gov Summit #opengovsum

    This morning I dragged my weary self to the bus stop at 06.15 to get the 07.01 train to London – for some of you I realise this seems like no major achievement – however for me it was something of a miracle! The reason behnd this early start was the Open Government Summit (organised…

  • Unicorns and Universities: Bathcamp 31

    This months Bathcamp was a corker (well I can only speak for the 2/3 I was there for but the Twitter buzz suggests the final talk was great as well.) Lisa put together a great agenda and the large crowd put pay to any thoughts that a night about ‘content’ wasn’t geeky enough for Bathcamp!…

  • 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…