http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk Making the world a better place, one byte at a time... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:07:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am delighted to report that tickets for the Barcamp Transparency main event are now available. This is a free event, but we need to get an idea of how many people are coming, and a rough list of contacts so that we can furnish you with things like Wifi keys ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2009/06/28/barcamp-transparency-tickets-now-available/ Yesterday I spent a pleasant evening at Trinity College Oxford at the No2ID summer identity and privacy event. This was an enjoyable and lively event made up of a panel of interested parties and members of the public. On the panel were: Robert Buckland (Tory candidate, Swindon South) Steve Goddard (Lib Dem candidate, Oxford ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2009/06/26/on-data-ownership/ I am delighted to announce that we will be holding a virtual barcamp fringe event on Friday 24th July for all those people who can't make our main event. To give us some idea of the numbers coming we have tickets available on Eventbrite, so go grab yourself one! Our main avenue ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2009/06/24/virtual-event-and-tickets/ I am absolutely delighted to be able to announce that I have managed to confirm the venue for Barcamp Transparency. Barcamp Transparency will be held at the Oxford University Club on the 26th July! This is a fabulous venue (the same one as Barcamp Apache Oxford), directions and other details can ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2009/06/17/barcamp-transparency-venue-confirmed/ One thing we try and do when working on a new Elgg feature is - where we can - couple things together as loosely as possible and provide hooks for third party developers to extend Elgg and fill in any blanks. A good example of where this has been done is ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2009/06/15/loosely-coupled-elgg-extensions-captcha-example/ Today I spent a productive and thoroughly enjoyable day at Oxford Geek Jam. This was a techy event organised by @mattythorne and @loleg at the Jam Factory in Oxford bringing together hackers, ideas people and general interested populous to bash out some ideas and start hacking on some projects. The group split ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2009/06/07/oxford-geek-jam/ Barcamp Transparency is gaining momentum fast. Our sponsorship list is growing and we already have already confirmed a number of high profile people who are going to attend! I therefore urge you to keep the 26th of July free in your calendar! Tell your friends! On a somewhat related note, I vote ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2009/05/13/bct09-gaining-momentum/ This is just a short post to say that Barcamp Transparency is now on Digg. Please take a moment to digg this up! http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2009/05/12/barcamp-transparency-on-digg/ Those eagle-eyed developers who have been tracking the Elgg core SVN may have noticed that I have recently committed a bunch of captcha related changes, including a simple captcha module. I just thought I'd write a quick post about it as this module makes use of a bit of Elgg functionality ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2009/05/08/extendin-actions-in-elgg/ Sponsor Barcamp TransparencyView more presentations from Sylwia Presley. I am pleased to announce that the Barcamp Transparency UK sponsorship pack is now available! Many thanks to @sylwiapresley for putting this together! Please help by spreading the word as much as you can, and if you represent an organisation that is interested in ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2009/05/07/barcamp-transparency-sponsorship-pack/