{"id":4118,"date":"2012-06-22T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T10:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2012-08-22T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T10:46:38","slug":"short-takes-raspberry-jam-raspberryjam-and-milton-keynes-geek-night-mkgn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/short-takes-raspberry-jam-raspberryjam-and-milton-keynes-geek-night-mkgn.htm","title":{"rendered":"Short takes: Raspberry Jam (#RaspberryJam) and Milton Keynes Geek Night (#MKGN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, aside from struggling with the culture shock of getting back to work after a fortnight of Internet abstinence, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/microsoft-finally-gets-its-mobility-act-together-but-cuts-loose-early-adopters-of-the-windows-phone-os.htm\">getting very angry with Microsoft<\/a>, I spent my evenings at\u00a0two fantastic community events. Both of them deserve a lot more space on the blog but I&#8217;m short of time right now, so a teeny overview will have to suffice.<\/p>\n<h3>Raspberry Jam<\/h3>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Raspberry Jam London\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/raspberry-jam.png?resize=300%2C110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Complete with scones (really!), Raspberry Jam was a fantastic evening of RaspberryPi fans talking about some of the things that they are up to and hosted by Alan O&#8217;Donohoe (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/teknoteacher\">@teknoteacher<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Genevieve Smith-Nunes (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pegleggen\">@pegleggen<\/a>) talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorothy-stringer.co.uk\/hackday\/\">the HackDay she&#8217;s organising at her school<\/a>\u00a0with 250 Year 9 students who will be building &#8220;something&#8221; with RaspberryPi (and the website is a constantly moving feast as its the kids who are building it). She&#8217;s also teaching Scratch to kids in Year 1 and 2 (my children are Foundation and Year 2, so this is very interesting to me).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(great quote by the way &#8211; &#8220;nobody&#8217;s the teacher; everyone&#8217;s the teacher; and we&#8217;re all students&#8221;).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neil Ford (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NeilCFord\">@NeilCFord<\/a>) talked about Portable Pi &#8211; a project for taking Raspberry Pis on field trips to provide a portable website for kids to upload research data where there is no mobile phone reception. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/registry\/wishlist\/1Z7VPDF4XWMW3\/\">shopping list for a Portable Pi<\/a> is available on Amazon (although I can&#8217;t see the battery on there right now).<\/li>\n<li>Neil also mentioned the <a href=\"http:\/\/youngrewiredstate.org\/\">Young Rewired State<\/a>\u00a0Festival of Code that&#8217;s happening in August &#8211; teaching kids to code, hoping to create the next Mark Zuckerbergs, and to keep them in the UK.<\/li>\n<li>There was a demo of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riscosopen.org\/\">Acorn RISC OS<\/a> running on a Raspberry Pi. I&#8217;d forgotten just how advanced it was, back in the days before Windows&#8230; what&#8217;s more, it is tiny (6MB) and includes BASIC. Great for starting to code&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>John Bevan (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bevangelist\">@bevangelist<\/a>) showed us <a href=\"http:\/\/thimble.webmaker.org\">Mozilla Thimble<\/a> &#8211; a really simple tool to teach people how to publish on the web and one of a wider suite of tools that Mozilla is creating.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus there was loads of opportunity for networking, snacks, beer, soft drinks and more.\u00a0Hosted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/about\/mozilla-spaces\/\">Mozilla Space<\/a> in London (a great venue for like-minded open source-oriented people), the organisers are looking for more RaspberryJam events to be created across London, the south-east (and presumably further)&#8230; jump on the #RaspberryJam hashtag for more.<\/p>\n<p>You can also watch the recording (filmed on an iPhone using a rather cool tracking tripod head called a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swivl.com\/\">Swivl<\/a>) on YouTube:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ShUnnqEmPGM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<h3>MK Geek Night<\/h3>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"MK Geek Night\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/mkgn.png?resize=153%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"240\" \/>Regular readers will know that, about once a month, I head down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalsurrey.co.uk\/\">Digital Surrey<\/a>, which usually has some great speakers on topics of interest to &#8220;digital&#8221; (media\/marketing\/tech) types, like me. With the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital-bristol.eventbrite.com\/\">Digital Bristol<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalberkshire.com\/\">Digital Berkshire<\/a> spin-offs, I considered starting a Digital MK or a Digital Buckinghamshire but I simply don&#8217;t have the time (or the contacts). That&#8217;s why I was so excited to see Richard Wiggins and David Hughes announce <a href=\"http:\/\/mkgeeknight.co.uk\/\">Milton Keynes Geek Night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wow! 190 people in a community arts centre in a converted bus station; two big speakers; three 5-minute\u00a0lightning\u00a0talks and some one-minute pitches. What a great evening.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jon Hicks (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HicksDesign\">@HicksDesign<\/a>) spoke about iconography, using the redesign of Skype&#8217;s emoticons as a case study. Who knew there was so much to designing icons? I had an inkling there would be, and it&#8217;s pretty fascinating stuff (for geeks).<\/li>\n<li>Kate Kenyon (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Kate_Kenyon\">@Kate_Kenyon<\/a>) told us, in just 5 minutes, how to slash content and create better websites that work for users, not just company politics.<\/li>\n<li>James Parker (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MrJamesParker\">@MrJamesParker<\/a>) gave us some tips on how Twitter helped him to become a better designer. \u00a0I won&#8217;t leave you hanging &#8211; and they are not just for designers either &#8211; they are:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li>Follow people relevant to you (not just celebrities).<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217; be a passive user &#8211; get involved in the conversation.<\/li>\n<li>Make friends &#8211; contacts are everything.<\/li>\n<li>Follow me.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Code Club (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CodeClub\">@CodeClub<\/a>) were there &#8211; there are 120 schools and 1436 volunteers signed up now (maybe more this morning) to teach our children to write code with curriculum changes and after-school clubs. It&#8217;s a pity I don&#8217;t cut code for a living as this is a great initiative to get involved in.<\/li>\n<li>Brendan Dawes \u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BrendanDawes\">@BrendanDawes<\/a>) gave a whacky but enlightening talk on low-tech hacks and making &#8220;things&#8221; from &#8220;stuff&#8221; (that description simply doesn&#8217;t do the talk credit &#8211; I&#8217;ll write more in another post, I hope)<\/li>\n<li>And then there were the one minute pitches for employment opportunities, user groups, special interests, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fantasmagorical!<\/p>\n<p>The next event is scheduled for 20 September. Full speaker line-up is yet to be announced, but includes Relly Annett-Baker (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RellyAB\">@RellyAB<\/a>) talking on content strategy\u00a0and, based on the inaugural event, I have high hopes that Richard and David will find more great speakers. Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MKGeekNight\">@MKGeekNight<\/a> on Twitter for more details.<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie url=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/dvlngl\/status\/215884358911918080&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, aside from struggling with the culture shock of getting back to work after a fortnight of Internet abstinence, and getting very angry with Microsoft, I spent my evenings at\u00a0two fantastic community events. 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