From skinner at britvault.co.uk Tue May 19 12:17:52 2015 From: skinner at britvault.co.uk (Craig Skinner) Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 12:17:52 -0000 Subject: [Falkirk] Fwd: OpenTech Conference - Saturday 13th June 2015, London Message-ID: <20150519121741.GC6380@teak.britvault.co.uk> ---- Forwarded Message ---- Subject: OpenTech Conference - Saturday 13th June 2015, London Sent: 18 May 2015 22:16 From: Alasdair G Kergon Hi everyone, With less than a month until OpenTech 2015, we're really excited by this year's schedule. As you'll see it's a fantastic, diverse line up of talks by a whole range of people working on issues and projects that really matter. Go take a look at: http://www.opentech.org.uk/2015/schedule Highlights include: - Privacy: RIPA2 and Snowdenia - The State of the Network Address - Digital toilets: For your convenience - Selling ideas - Information Infrastructures: How do we show the thing? - The Open Rights Group at 10 years old - Open Health Care - Privacy: health (Do you know where you medical records go?) - 3 Digital Services - I cracked 1,000 UK Government websites. Stop me! - Data and policy - The national election: What happened? & What's next? - The Cult of Equity All this and much, much more. Tickets are GB?5 on the door, but to make sure you get in on the day, you can pre-register here: http://www.opentech.org.uk/2015/ We're already about half booked and tickets are selling fast, so don't miss out. And don't forget to remind your friends - OpenTech is as much about the people attending, as the speakers. For those who've not been before... OpenTech is an informal, low cost (thanks Open Data Institute for sponsoring us again!), one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, problems and democracy. You are guaranteed a day of thoughtful, thought-provoking talks leading to lively conversations with friends. Besides the sessions, there'll be plenty of time to talk in the bar which will be open until 10pm. _Switch off, sit back and enjoy the show_ As ever, while there is technically some wifi in the building, as soon as we all show up, there will no longer be any working wifi in the building. So listen to the speakers (or your mates in the bar) rather than compulsively refreshing twitter errors, wondering if you should have gone to a different session based on the tweets sent over 3G. __Wish you'd offered a talk?___ As always, we have kept a couple of talk slots in reserve, so if there are any hot new or breaking issues you'd like to offer, that you wouldn't have offered last month, email opentech at opentech.org.uk and we can chat. If you would like to help make the day as successful as previous OpenTechs, we're also looking for a few more volunteers to help out, email opentech at opentech.org.uk. Oh, and did we mention? You can pre-register your tickets here: http://www.opentech.org.uk/2015/registration More soon, Your friendly opentech organisers http://www.opentech.org.uk/2015/ ----- End forwarded message ----- From greg.sutcliffe at gmail.com Tue May 26 19:58:43 2015 From: greg.sutcliffe at gmail.com (Greg Sutcliffe) Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 19:58:43 -0000 Subject: [Falkirk] June talk - Kenny Coyle "Film Making, For Geeks" Message-ID: Hi all Yes, I know that title looks like a copy-paste error from May... but since Kenny got his dates wrong, he'll be along this month to atone for his past indiscretions :) So, we'll be meeting next Tueday (2nd June), and as ever we'll be upstairs at the Star Inn from about 7.30pm, preceeded by some of us getting food at the Carron Works from 6pm onwards. Kenny will be talking about his work in recording and documenting talks during the annual KDE conference - Akademy. Out of principle, talks are recorded using entirely Free and Open Source technology (with the only exception of the cameras in a few cases). During this talk, Kenny will show how a number of simple Open Source tools make this possible, where the challenges lie and (if possible) - provide a live demo of some of these tools. This talk will conclude with an overview of plans for the future and details of the experimentation with different workflows and how these will be implemented at the upcoming conference in A Coru?a. See you there! Greg