{"@context":{"rdf":"http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#","rdfs":"http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#","owl":"http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#","foaf":"http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/","dc":"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/","dct":"http://purl.org/dc/terms/","sioc":"http://rdfs.org/sioc/types#","blog":"http://vocab.amy.so/blog#","as":"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#","mf2":"http://microformats.org/profile/","ldp":"http://www.w3.org/ns/ldp#","solid":"http://www.w3.org/ns/solid#","view":"https://terms.rhiaro.co.uk/view#","asext":"https://terms.rhiaro.co.uk/as#","dbp":"http://dbpedia.org/property/","geo":"http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#","doap":"http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#","time":"http://www.w3.org/2006/time#"},"@graph":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/09/scotgovcamp","@type":"as:Article","blog:bloggerid":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8487172207379797242","as:actor":{"@id":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130"},"as:content":"
Writeup imminent...
","as:name":"ScotGovCamp #scotgc13","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-09-14T06:30:00.000Z"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/done"},{"@id":"blog:Done"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/attendee"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/events"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/government"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/open+data"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/open+rights"}],"as:updated":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-09-19T10:12:15.740Z"}},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/10/launch-prewired","@type":"as:Article","blog:bloggerid":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1504925507947577151","as:actor":{"@id":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130"},"as:content":"Several weeks of debating and planning following Young Rewired\r\nState finally came to fruition on the 16th of\r\nOctober, with our first Prewired event.
\r\nThirty eight kidsyoung people arrived between 9:30 and 10 on that\r\nWednesday morning (it was half term week in Scotland, so we weren't pulling\r\nthem out of school), grabbed some kindly donated Google swag, made name badges\r\nwith stickers and felt-tipped pens, and sat down for two and a half hours of\r\nlightly guided learning.
They were between the ages of three and eighteen, although the three to six\r\nyear olds were more there to be tagging along with older siblings or\r\nUniversity staff. It's obviously impossible to divide attendees up by age and\r\ndecide what to work with them on, as older definitely does not mean more\r\nexperienced. We had decided on no lower bound for the age limit, and no lower\r\nbound for experience either, figuring that the only real requirement is\r\nenthusiasm about programming. There was a huge mix of interests and abilities,\r\nand we let them decide for themselves which topics would be worth listening\r\nto.
\r\nWe also had about fifteen students, University staff or industry professionals\r\nalong as mentors.
\r\nAfter a few minutes of welcomes, where most of the room were willing to\r\nintroduce themselves and tell us what they wanted to learn ("Python",\r\n"Scratch" and "more about programming in general" were popular ones) we kicked\r\noff with three five minute introductions: to HTML and CSS (beginner), to HTML5\r\nGeolocation (intermediate) and to Python's Natural Language Toolkit\r\n(advanced). They then had the chance to spend 40 minutes in a hands-on session\r\nfor whichever of these they chose. The groups were very evenly spread, and\r\ndespite a few hiccups with Python installations on Windows and Chrome not\r\nplaying nice with geolocation (worked through thanks largely to the mentors)\r\nmost people got some code up and running and appropriately hacked about with\r\nby the end.
\r\n\r\nWe took a break for juice, crisps, chocolate and fruit, plus a bit of hardware\r\ntinkering. We'd borrowed a Nodecopter, but hadn't managed to get it charged in\r\ntime so it wasn't in the air, but there were still plenty of people interested\r\nin looking at the code to control it. We also had a demo of a robot arm, which\r\ncould be controlled by an Android app connected to a Python server, which had\r\nbeen written over the summer by one of our mentors.
\r\n\r\n\r\nNext up were three more lightning talks: introduction to Scratch (beginner),\r\ndoing cool things with Redstone Circuits in Minecraft (intermediate) and\r\nintroduction to PyGame (intermediate-advanced). The following hands-on session\r\nfor Scratch was under-attended, possibly ousted by the allure of Minecraft,\r\nbut the PyGame session had over a third of the group and made some great\r\nprogress, which was awesome.
\r\nWe finished a little late, but still managed to have time for a quick demo of\r\na football playing robot from the nearby robotics lab, and a few attendees who\r\ntook their time dragging themselves away from their screens.
\r\n\r\nI'm told that overall it was a success. I was concerned because I was\r\ngenerally called upon when something was going wrong, so my perspectively was\r\nweighted towards the negative. But it wasn't too chaotic, none of the
\r\nkidsattendees played up, and as far as we could tell they were\r\ndoing something in some way productive at all times.
A lot of them had had little to no programming experience before that morning,\r\nand I really hope they were able to take away something positive and, most\r\nimportantly, feel encouraged to try things out by themselves at home. Plenty,\r\ntoo, had enough experience that they were calling out to correct the speakers,\r\nand helping their peers to get things working. It's a huge challenge to find\r\nenough activities to engage so many different levels of experience and\r\ninterest, and I don't think we did a bad job.
\r\nOur next Prewired event will be on the 30th of October, and we're running them\r\nbi-weekly on Wednesday evenings from now on. They will be henceforth less\r\nstructured. Our primary aim is to help young people to realise that with\r\nprogramming (and related areas) they can create anything, express\r\nthemselves, and change the world. We don't wish to enforce a curriculum, but\r\nencourage them to explore areas they are interested in, learn how to teach\r\nthemselves and figure out how to make what they want, and most of all to\r\npersuade them not to be afraid to experiment - to hack - and to just keep\r\ntrying if it doesn't work first time. To get them excited before they become\r\njaded and before this society's stereotypes have a chance to impact on them.
\r\nYou can find out more about Prewired at prewired.org,\r\nand join the mailing list there too.
\r\nHere are some of the photos from the day:
\r\nIf you took some that you'd like us to add, then please send them to\r\nhello@prewired.org!
\r\nSimilarly, send any feedback you have about the event to us that way, as well.
\r\nI'll update this post (as well as the website) with resources from the\r\nspeakers and mentors as I get hold of them.
\r\nBeginning HTML and CSS:
\r\nHTML5 Geolocation:
\r\nBuilding a chatbot with Python's Natural Language Toolkit:
\r\nIntro to Scratch:
\r\nMinecraft Redstone Circuits:
\r\nIntro to PyGame:
\r\nI ventured to Glasgow for the second Open Knowledge Foundation meetup on\r\nMonday 18th. It was well attended, and there were six short talks:
\r\nLorna Campbell from Cetis talked about Open Scotland. I understood this to be\r\na collaboration between Cetis, the SQA, JISC and the ALT Scotland, to do with\r\nthe opening up of education, and influencing policy and practicein this area.\r\nHere's a blog.
\r\nGrianne Hamilton from JISC talked about Mozilla's Open Badges. You can use\r\nthem to reward learning, skills and achievements in all sorts of areas, and\r\nany organisaiton can create and issue badge packs to people who have earned\r\nthem. Recievers can then show them off anywhere they can put HTML.
\r\nGraeme Arnott talked about a collaboration between Glasgow Womens' Library and\r\nWikimedia, which resulted in the Scottish Women on Wikipedia event. This was a\r\ngroup of Scottish women getting together to edit Wikipedia articles about\r\nScottish Women, and there was very positive feedback. They have more events\r\nplanned. Graeme also reminded us about Wikimania, which is taking place next\r\nAugust in London.
\r\nJennifer Jones told us about the Digital Common Wealth project. She pointed\r\nout that with media-saturated global events like the Olympics, the official\r\nstory is already decided before the event even starts. An alternative to\r\nrelying on what is broadcast by the mainstream media is to turn the camera on\r\nthe crowd, and get the 'real' version of what is going on. The Digital Common\r\nWealth project will encourage citizen journalists to work together to craft\r\nthe story of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games from their perspective. Jennifer\r\nalso raised the point that although free tools like YouTube, AudioBoo and\r\nTwitter are great for spreading stories, the data is still held by third\r\nparties - what happens if they disappear? How should initiatives like this\r\nsafely archive their stories, and keep them in context?
\r\nPippa Gardner talked about Glasgow's Future Cities project, for which they\r\nhave £24 million to develop. It's about "people and data", but she was here\r\nto talk about data. There's the Data Innovation Engagement (which apparently\r\nneeds a better acronym) and Glasgow's data\r\nportal which has already launched. Not all of\r\nthe data on their is 'properly' open, but it's more open than it was before.\r\nThere's a maps portal coming soon. Follow\r\n@openglasgow to keep up to date. Someone\r\nasked how they can avoid inadvertantly widening the digital divide by making\r\nall this data available - as it will only improve things for people who\r\nalready have understanding and access. Pippa said there's a dedicate group in\r\nthe Council working on widening digital participation, so they're involved.
\r\nDuncan Bain, and MPhil student at the University of Edinburgh, talked about\r\nOpen Architecture. He says it's hard to define 'knowledge' and 'data' in\r\narchitecture; architects create drawings/representations, not buildings. There\r\nare efforts towards opening certain aspects of this, like wikihouse.cc and the\r\nOpen Architecture Network, but the culture of the architecture world, and\r\nwhere the money is, seems to be preventing things from going in the same\r\ndirection as software development any time soon.
\r\nHere are livestreams of the talks by Jennifer Jones:\r\none and two\r\nand a twitter timeline by Sheila\r\nMacneill.
","as:name":"OKFN Glasgow #2","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-11-20T15:16:00.002Z"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/done"},{"@id":"blog:Done"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/events"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/glasgow"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/meetup"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/okfn"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/open+knowledge+foundation"}],"as:updated":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-11-20T15:16:42.446Z"}},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/11/prewired-3","@type":"as:Article","blog:bloggerid":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-9088290610966821515","as:actor":{"@id":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130"},"as:content":"Our third Prewired event went smoothly, with 20 young people (about 4 new) and\r\n7 or so parents attending, plus 8 mentors. So lower signups than usual (a few\r\ncancellations due to school commitments), but we decided not to do a big\r\npublicity push and see how it ran with a smaller group. I didn't notice much\r\ndifference, since they organise themselves into smaller groups anyway to work\r\non different things. I think next time we'll try to reach our capacity of 40.
\r\nWe had a big group working on a variety of Python projects (games, basics,\r\nalgorithms, I'm not sure what else..), a small group doing front-end web, and\r\nquite a few doing amazing things with Scratch.
\r\nEvery week I discover new things these super-talented young people are doing\r\nwith their time, and it won't be long before many of them are spending a lot\r\nof time mentoring their peers as well as working on their own projects.
\r\nNantas came by to talk about what he does with the\r\nUniversity's Robotics lab, including the challenges of making humanoid robots\r\nplay football, and the state of the art, two-million-pounds, full sized\r\nhumanoid robot that is moving to Edinburgh in the near future. Definitely\r\nstuff to get young people excited about learning to code.
\r\nWe've been trying to encourage them to code between Prewired sessions, too,\r\nand about half of them said they had. I hope by the next time all of them\r\nhave, and I'm really excited to see what they're capable of making in a few\r\nmonths time!
\r\nBut...
\r\n
\r\nSome of the young people attending are disadvantaged by not being able to bring their own laptop, or having only really old laptops which can't support modern browsers and therefore have trouble even executing the JavaScript their writing (true story).
We'd love to be able to pay for a set of simple but up-to-date laptops that we\r\ncould lend to the attendees who don't have their own during sessions. This at\r\nleast will put them on a level playing field with the others during the\r\nsessions, and I suspect that many of them have adequate desktop machines or\r\nfamily laptops at home.
\r\nPrewired runs on a budget of volunteer blood, sweat and tears, and zero\r\npounds. We're lucky enough to be able to use space in the University\r\nInformatics building for free, and there are no shortage of keen mentors and\r\nhelpers willing to chip in their time (and in some cases cash for snacks).
\r\nSo if you work for a company who might be able to support the purchase of\r\nresources for our young coders, or know someone who does, then please get in\r\ntouch!
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","as:name":"ISWC Context, Interpretation and Meaning Workshop","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2014-08-30T16:42:00+0000"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/done"},{"@id":"blog:Done"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/conference"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/context"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/events"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/iswc2014"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/iswc"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/presentation"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/semantic+web"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/02/indieweb-tmu","@type":"as:Event","as:content":"I'm going to welcome TechMeetup Edinburgh attendees to the Indieweb today, which takes place at 1830 in the Skyscanner offices.
\r\nI'll post notes and links here later.
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\r\nThis happened!
","as:endTime":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2015-02-20T17:00:00+0000"},"as:inReplyTo":{"@id":"http://indiewebcamp.com/2015/Cambridge"},"as:name":"Indiewebcamp","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2015-02-11T13:19:00+0000"},"as:startTime":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2015-03-19T09:00:00+0000"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/done"},{"@id":"blog:Done"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/boston"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/cambridge"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/decentralised+web"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/events"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/hackathon"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/indieweb"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/indiewebcamp"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/rsvp"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/social+web"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/travel"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/usa"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/02/indiewebcamp-edinburgh","@type":"as:Event","as:content":"Along with James and Harry, I'm organising an indiewebcamp here in Edinburgh! Indiewebcamp is a 2-day unconference-style event, with lots of hacking, and support to help you take ownership of your social data and launch your own website which can interoperate with other people's, as well as with social silos like twitter.
\r\nPlanning is in early stages, but we've settled on 25/26th July and Skyscanner have offered us their office as a venue, but this is to be confirmed.
\r\nWe're (naturally) looking for sponsorship for lunches: if you're part of a tech company who would like to help out, we'd love to hear from you! You can find out more about sponsoring IWC events here.
\r\nKeep an eye on the event wiki page) for more details; you can register your interest or contribute to planning and brainstorming there too.
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","as:endTime":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime","@value":"2015-03-22T18:00:00+00:00"},"as:inReplyTo":{"@id":"https://www.libreplanet.org/2015/"},"as:name":"LibrePlanet","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2015-02-11T13:24:00+0000"},"as:startTime":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime","@value":"2015-03-21T09:00:00+00:00"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/done"},{"@id":"blog:Done"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/boston"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/cambridge"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/conference"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/events"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/free+software"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/libreplanet"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/rsvp"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/travel"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/usa"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/02/lovelace","@type":"as:Event","as:actor":{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/about#me"},"as:content":"I'm helping to organise the Lovelace Colloquium in Edinburgh this year! Lovelace is a one-day conference for female undergraduates studying technical subjects in the UK. There are talks, a poster competition, panel and social events. I've previously talked about Lovelace here.
\r\nIf you qualify, you should enter the poster competition. If you're a postgraduate or male in Edinburgh and want to help out instead, drop me an email!
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\r\nIf you're interested in getting involved, check out the Smart Data Hack website...
\r\nI'm looking forward to attending the next face-to-face for the W3C Social Web Working Group in Boston, MA, on the 17th and 18th of March.
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\r\n(ages approximate, I'm pretty bad at figuring them out..)
\r\nTODO: photos! (but also see @Prewired).
\r\nAlso massive thanks to Eder, Cameron and Harry who stuck it out all day and helped with carrying, setting up and demo-ing hardware, and Martha and Rikki who came for the last few hours (after most of the kids had left) and helped with take-down. These people are awesome.
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\r\nOn the first day we had over 20 kids; on subsequent days it dropped down to 10-15 because lots of schools were starting back this week.
\r\nHere's a rundown:
\r\nMega props to mentors for helping out over the course of the week: Nantas, Freda, Eder, Luke, Helen, Cameron and Rikki (who came on his birthday!).
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