<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote type="cite"><div>I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State<br>hackweek <a href="http://rewiredstate.org/young">http://rewiredstate.org/young</a> lots of young people, including<br>our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups<br>based on government data</div></blockquote>[...]<div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Isabell's application GovSpark won a special prize for the app most<br>likely to irritate the civil service which is great!  </div></blockquote><div><br></div>The GovSpark idea is fantastic, and Isabell did really well :) Although there were cosmetic features added to by the mentors and by me, I think she deserves a round of applause (and a pink tux mouse!) for her achievements!<div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Joe O'Dell was along as well, but sadly was<br>too young to fully take part this year! </div></blockquote><div><br></div>Sure was! Isabell's presentation was on my laptop because she didn't want to take her new purchase into london! Next year, I will be participating!<br><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>The event is much<br>more about Open Data than Open Source, the laptop of choice for the next<br>generation of technology leaders is clearly the Macbook,</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Well, yes :) However, OS X (more specifically Darwin) is based on Unix, and so has *some* open-ness to it. Better than what is churned out of Redmond!</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>but there were<br>a number of Ubuntu laptops present (in fact the Manchester team did 20<br>application demos on Tim Dobson's Ubuntu laptop).</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yes, and a lot of the work was done either using Linux (mainly Ubuntu) or open-source software (I noticed jEdit floating around somewhere, not just on my mac).</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks everyone that attended and supported the people like Isbaell - it was especially good to see Alan there in "Ubuntu Aubergine"!</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite">You forgot about TubeSmart and SociaLibrary (although I suppose I<br>don't really take part that often here usually). Also, for anyone who<br>thought to themselves that they'd use something like TubeSmart (the<br>tube map with SVG circles on top) please pressure TfL into releasing<br>the data via <a href="mailto:enquire@tfl.gov.uk">enquire@tfl.gov.uk</a> or @TfLoffficial on Twitter. Thanks!<br></blockquote><div><br></div>Oh yes, I nearly forgot too! (Joking!) TfL have released APIs for thigns like that (although not for crowded-ness). The people you need to get on to are <a href="http://data.london.gov.uk">data.london.gov.uk</a> as well as TfL!</div><div><br></div><div>Well done everyone, and I look forward to seeing some of you next year!</div><div><br></div><div>Joe<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; 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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; 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"><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Fedora Ambassador & Contributor (FreeMedia)</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ascenseur">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ascenseur</a><br><div><br></div><div>bedsLUG Co-Ordinator<br>beds.lug.org.uk<br><br></div><div>DFEY Member (SouthEast)<br>dfey.org<br></div><div><br><br></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span> </div> <br><div><div>On 7 Aug 2010, at 12:06, Alan Bell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>. JThere was a panel of judges<br>including Andrew Stott, the government Director of Digital Engagement.<br><br><br>The Young Rewired State will be run again next year, but they are<br>looking for more sponsorship if you know an organisation interested in<br>promoting technology innovation then point them in the direction of<br><a href="http://rewiredstate.org/pages/yrs-info-centres">http://rewiredstate.org/pages/yrs-info-centres</a><br><br>Alan.<br><br>-- <br>ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com<br>https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk<br>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>