“Proprietary software threatens democracy”
Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda ended this year’s QtCon, free software community conference with a keynote speech on, inter alia, free software in the European public sector. Ms Reda explained how...
View ArticleUnder a month to CiviCon London 2016
Billed as “Europe’s biggest event for the leading third sector CRM“, it’s now less than a month until CiviCRM’s Civicon 2016 in London, which is being held on 6th and 7th October. CiviCRM is the...
View ArticleProtests planned for W3C meeting in Lisbon
Next week, demonstrators will gather at a meeting of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Lisbon, Portugal to make the same demand as was made at the last major W3C meeting in March: stop streaming...
View ArticleBristol academic to chair augmented reality conference
A Bristol academic is to chair a major augmented reality conference, the University of Bristol reports. Professor Walterio Mayol-Cuevas of Bristol University’s Department of Computer Science is to...
View ArticleGet online at J3
Your ‘umble scribe has today received an email from Kurt James, Neighbourhood Partnership Co-ordinator at Bristol City Council, announcing an event next month in east Bristol. Bristol Libraries is...
View ArticleBuilding IoT London: Call for Papers ends in fortnight
German IT news website heise and our old friends The Register are joint sponsors of the Building IoT London event to be held in March 2017. The former reported at the end of last week that software...
View ArticleWe’ve moved!
After 4 very happy years at Windmill Hill City Farm, Bristol Wireless has moved. Our move has taken us from south of the River Avon in Bedminster back to Easton where Bristol Wireless started over 14...
View ArticleFree CiviCRM seminar in London
MTL Group company NfP Services are hosting a free CiviCRM seminar at their offices at 340 Gray’s Inn Road London, WC1X 8BG (map). The seminar will also include refreshments and lunch and will run from...
View ArticleBristol’s CFMS launches new supercomputer
The Centre for Modelling & Simulation (CFMS), a not-for-profit organisation that specialises in high value design capability, which is based at the Bristol & Bath Science Park, launched a new...
View ArticleFeeling Insecure at the Engine Shed
Bristol Wireless member Nigel Legg writes: The focus of the fourth Bristol & Bath IoT meetup on Monday 21st November was security – making your things secure. There have been some DDoS attacks that...
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