<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Well, I have to agree with you but it does no harm to have a tiny bit of publicity. The site is really biassed to Scotland anyway.</span></div><div><span>Ogg Camp:-<br></span></div><div><span> There was an interesting lecture by the Director of the 'Open Rights Group' re the Government's Communications Bill. The salient points made were that: It really didn't matter that the data gathered did not include the body of an email message because everything you post, everywhere, will be gathered and, with triangulation, the authorities can find out all they want about the activities of an individual or group. Further, as it stands (in the Bill), the Secretary of State can decide, without any recourse to anyone or any body, that they want to snoop or take action. He suggested that a 'black box' will likely be given to ISPs
and they will have to route traffic through it. Already, as I am sure most people are aware, the terrorism laws have been widely misused. What the new bill will do is effectively make legal what probably takes place anyway but, when an investigative reporter finds out what is going on, they can say it is perfectly legal. To be honest I find the whole thing deeply disturbing. The last Government tried to bring in a similar bill. I am assuming that the secret Police and other lobbyists are pushing for this and the ignorant Politicians are doing as they are bid. The Politicians are supposed to represent our interests but they don't. I suspect, also, that, us being the 51st state of America, the CIA will also have a hand in this. This is turning into a blog so I will end there!</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I went to a talk on running groups. I can't say that I learned a great deal as I have run groups before but it consolidated a few
things. He did say that some businesses, who wanted to recruit, were happy to provide some funding to local groups where they perceived it could be a source for them.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>There were stalls there from ScaperWiki, Hacker Public Radio, O'Reilly Books & Open Rights Group - amongst others.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Brian<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Alice Kaerast <alice@kaerast.info><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Brian <bradlug@techchico.org.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 20 August 2012,
19:38<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bradford] opentechcalendar.co.uk<br> </font> </div> <br>Oh joy, yet another person wanting to become the owner of the<br>definitive list of tech events/groups in the UK/Yorkshire - this time<br>with even crapper than usual calendaring and no maps. I give them six<br>months before they give up like all the others before them.<br><br>Was there anything actually useful/interesting at Oggcamp?<br><br></snark><br><br>Alice<br><br><br><br><br>On 20 August 2012 19:21, Brian <<a ymailto="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk" href="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk">bradlug@techchico.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> I have taken the liberty of including BradLUG's details on<br>> <a href="http://opentechcalendar.co.uk/index.php/groups/" target="_blank">http://opentechcalendar.co.uk/index.php/groups/</a><br>> Someone from the site gave a talk at OggCamp12.<br>>
Brian<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Bradford mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>> <a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford</a><br>><br><br><br><br>-- <br>Mx Alice Kaerast<br>Devops supergirl, agile coach, corporate sysadmin, optimisationeer<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>