[Newark] FW: [lugmaster] ANNOUNCE: Wuthering Bytes technology festival (26 Sep - 2 Oct)

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Subject: [lugmaster] ANNOUNCE: Wuthering Bytes technology festival (26 Sep - 2 Oct)

Wuthering Bytes, the leading community-driven open technology festival
in the North, is to celebrate its third year when it opens to visitors
later this month. From 26th September to 2nd October

Co-founded and organised by local technologists Andrew Back and Tim
Harbour and hosted at the Hebden Bridge Town Hall, this year's
Wuthering Bytes is the largest yet with a full week-long schedule.

More information below.

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Subject:        Re: Wuthering Bytes technology festival (26 Sep - 2 Oct)
Date:   Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:44:06 +0100
From:   Stuart J Mackintosh <sjm at opusvl.com>
Reply-To:       sjm at opusvl.com
Organisation:   OpusVL


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It is worth noting that I have arranged a discount code which provides a
free ticket to anyone in the Open Source community to the "Open for
Business" day on Monday 28th: http://t.co/RGa8o8wCcI

I will be presenting a talk during the day along with Tariq Rashid (Home
Office), Adam Jollans (IBM), Peter Cotes (NHS Open Source), Amanda
Brock  (Global Switch), Maha Sheik (Warwick Business School)  and others.

The programme for the Open for Business day is here:
http://wutheringbytes.com/days/openforbusiness/talks.html

I have been posting updates on this via twitter:
https://twitter.com/SJMackintosh (along with the ODF Plugfest in the
Hague next week)

Full details of the event can be found on the event website here:
http://www.wutheringbytes.com/

Event summary below.


Venue:

Hebden Bridge Town Hall
St. George's Street
Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX7 7BY


Wuthering Bytes, the leading community-driven open technology festival
in the North, is to celebrate its third year when it opens to visitors
later this month. From 26th September to 2nd October

Co-founded and organised by local technologists Andrew Back and Tim
Harbour and hosted at the Hebden Bridge Town Hall, this year's
Wuthering Bytes is the largest yet with a full week-long schedule.

"The great thing about open source hardware and software is that it
lowers the barrier to access to technology," co-founder Andrew Back
told the HebWeb, stressing the event's focus on open source software,
open hardware, and open data, "while also fostering a culture of
sharing skills."

The week-long Wuthering Bytes festival, named for the Brontë novel
inspired by the picturesque Top Withens in Haworth, begins with a day
of talks organised by the national Open Source Hardware User Group on
Saturday, 26th September, followed by hands-on workshops on the 27th
where attendees can learn how to make their own 3D-printed digital
microscope, use free software to create 3D models for printing, create
low-cost Smart Home sensors, design their own circuit boards, how to
solder, and more.

The British Computer Society's Open Source Specialist Group and the
Open Source Consortium jointly host Monday 28th September's Open for
Business day, which aims to aid interested parties with starting their
own open-source business.

These are followed by three days hosted by Calderdale Council,
beginning with Intelligent Towns on 29th September which includes a
close look at the Internet of Things and the UK's Smart Cities
initiative, and how both are set to transform Calderdale.

Tomorrow's People, on Wednesday, 30th of September, continues the
future-gazing with a look at public service provision, and the
Council's hosting ends on Thursday 1st October with a Make, Do, and
Mend Technology Fair, a free event which includes a Restart Party
where attendees can bring broken technology and learn how to repair it
themselves.

The Wuthering Bytes schedule concludes with the Festival Day on Friday
2nd October, which features talks on subjects as varied as data and
privacy to using CAT scanners and X-ray machines to read ancient
scrolls. A particular highlight of this day is a discussion on the
history of Calrec Audio, a highly successful local audio specialist
dating back to the 1950s and best known for providing the hardware for
Premier League football broadcasts.

Key speakers at Wuthering Bytes Festival Day this year include:

Professor Danielle George, Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning at
the University of Manchester, providing a keynote speech on the radio
spectrum and radio-frequency engineering. Amongst other things,
Professor George presented the 2014 Royal Institution Christmas
Lectures that were broadcast by the BBC.

Eva Pascoe, co-founder of Cybersalon.org and Cyberia, the world's
first Internet Café, speaking on the risks posed by corporate data
grabs
Stephen Jagger, former managing director of Hebden Bridge-based Calrec
Audio, speaking on the company's incredible global success from its
origins in the 1950s

David Mills, a scientist working on using CAT scanners and X-rays to
read ancient scrolls and damaged audio and video tapes that would be
destroyed using traditional viewing methods

Chris Thorpe, co-founder of publisher I Can Make and chief technology
officer of Moshi Monsters, speaking on the educational uses of
technologies including 3D scanners and printers

"The reception in previous years has been great," Andrew explains,
"which can be attributed to the fact that we've had some pretty
amazing people present and others running fantastic hands-on
workshops. It was clearly an honour to have had the inventor of the
ARM processor (Sophie Wilson) present at Wuthering Bytes last year,
and that was some talk!

Sarah Angliss also gave an incredible talk that explored the
pre-electric roots of electronic music, there was a live demo of a
rocket engine, Ann Kilbey's talk on being a computer programmer in the
early 1960s was also utterly captivating. And these were all on one
day last year - there are too many to list!"

More information on the event can be found at www.wutheringbytes.com.
Tickets are available now, priced at £10 per day including lunch. A
brief schedule summary is reproduced below, for reference.

Saturday 26th September
Open Source Hardware Camp Talks

Sunday 27th September
Open Source Hardware Camp Workshops

Monday 28th September
Open for Business, hosted by the BCS Open Source Specialist Group and
the Open Source Consortium

Tuesday 29th September
Intelligent Towns, hosted by Calderdale Council

Wednesday 30th September
Tomorrow's People, hosted by Calderdale Council

Thursday 1st October
Make, Do, and Mend Technology Fair, hosted by Calderdale Council

Friday 2nd October
Wuthering Bytes Festival Day

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Stuart J Mackintosh

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