Open Tech 2008 Sessions
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10:30 AM
Ends: 10:50 AM
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Rembrandt, Pr0n and Robot Monkeys: Lessons From the Present About Flesh and Technology
Who was Dr Von Tulp, and what can Rembrandt's painting of him tell us about human-computer interaction? How is a week without the internet like loosing a leg? Why are the heady ... 2 notes |
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10:30 AM
Ends: 11:30 AM
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No2ID and the Open Rights Group: State of the Nation
Now that Tony Blair has taken time out to, among other things, learn how to use email, what does the future look like for campaigns which focus on the social impact of new techn... |
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10:30 AM
Ends: 10:50 AM
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From E-Business to G-Business
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10:50 AM
Ends: 11:10 AM
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Living with Chaos: Why Nothing is Simple in IT
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10:50 AM
Ends: 11:10 AM
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Solar Hot Water and Open Source IT
A brief description of the state of solar hot water tech - the environmental benefits of deployment, and places where things could be done better with the application of some be... 1 note |
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11:10 AM
Ends: 11:30 AM
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What the Frog's Eye Tells the Future
Something about how the folks at the beginning of neuroscience, computers and cybernetics were all interconnected, and what it might mean for what's coming next. We're living in... 1 note |
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11:10 AM
Ends: 11:30 AM
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Quick look at Edenbee
This talk focus on the website www.edenbee.com a community builder focused on the helping individuals reduce their carbon footprint. http://www.edenbee.com |
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11:30 AM
Ends: 11:50 AM
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TiddlyWiki Tales
TiddlyWiki is a popular open source wiki platform that's not like other wikis: it doesn't require a server (it'll even work on a USB stick), and it doesn't even support collabor... 3 notes |
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11:30 AM
Ends: 12:30 PM
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Here's the UK EFF
The Open Rights Group (ORG) was conceived at a session titled 'Where's the UK's EFF' at OpenTech 2005. In the following six months, 1,000 individuals pledged to contribute a fiv... |
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11:30 AM
Ends: 11:45 AM
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Energy awareness
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11:45 AM
Ends: 12:00 AM
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AMEE - The World's Energy Meter
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11:50 AM
Ends: 12:10 PM
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Android and the Open Handset Alliance
An overview of the Android mobile operating system that Google has been developing with the Open Handset Alliance. Android is an open source project that aims to stimulate innov... 2 notes |
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12:00 PM
Ends: 12:15 PM
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Aerial Heat Maps
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12:10 PM
Ends: 12:30 PM
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Social networks and FOAF
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12:15 PM
Ends: 12:30 PM
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Welcome to WikiClimate
An introduction to WikiClimate, which aims to do for climate change what Wikipedia did for general knowledge, i.e. become a compendium of all climate-related information, as wel... |
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12:30 PM
Ends: 1:30 PM
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Lunch
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1:30 PM
Ends: 2:30 PM
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Power to the people - one year on from the Power of Information Report
How the Power of Information Report by Tom Steinberg and Ed Mayo is making an impact inside the UK government. Letting data mashers improve public services, Sir Humphrey goes bl... |
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1:30 PM
Ends: 2:00 PM
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Overthrowing (Local) Government Using Open Source
I'm one of the people trying to overthrow our local (Bristol and neighbour's) council's transport policy http://www.railwaypath.org/ I've been trying to apply OSS techniques to ... |
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1:30 PM
Ends: 1:50 PM
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OpenID and Decentralised Social Networks
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1:50 PM
Ends: 2:10 PM
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Distributed, Federated, Partial
What shape is the Internet becoming, despite maps of the internet from luminaries such as Tim Berners-Lee, it is a mixed picture at best. We make tools to solve the problems we ... 2 notes |
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2:00 PM
Ends: 2:30 PM
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Tracking Arms Dealers with Python and Bits of String
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2:10 PM
Ends: 2:30 PM
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The Web is Agreement
A rapid, highly personal, tour of the road towards Openness and Collaboration on the Web, as drawn out in the slightly mad poster "The Web is Agreement". http://thewebisagreeme... 2 notes |
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2:30 PM
Ends: 2:50 PM
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Planning Alerts
http://www.planningalerts.com/ |
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2:30 PM
Ends: 2:50 PM
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Linux for the Non-Computer Literate
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2:30 PM
Ends: 3:00 PM
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From Stealth Mode to Open Source in 90 days
A new startup does for atoms what wikipedia did for bits. More details on the day. |
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2:50 PM
Ends: 3:10 PM
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3 Years of OpenStreetMap
We're nearing completion of the UK and a lot of people won't have seen or heard of us for a while, so come learn what OSM has been doing these past 3 years and enjoy the goodnes... |
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2:50 PM
Ends: 3:10 PM
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Aptivate: Digital Tools for the Developing World
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3:00 PM
Ends: 3:30 PM
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No Comply: or Why the Paranoid Android Approach to Security is a Bad Idea
Recent proposed changes to legal frameworks around the globe have led to a situation where legitimate security research is being stiffled. The DMCA and the Patriot Act in the US... |
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3:10 PM
Ends: 3:30 PM
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Enabled by Design
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3:30 PM
Ends: 4:00 PM
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Afternoon Break
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4:00 PM
Ends: 4:30 PM
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mySociety: Putting Freedom of Information Online
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4:00 PM
Ends: 4:20 PM
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Proof by Overwhelming Notation: An Introduction to What Quants Do
Introduction to finance, using Ruby and Open Source tools to write a basic system for managing personal investments. An emphasis on DIY investment advice; live coding; environme... |
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4:00 PM
Ends: 4:30 PM
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Publishing with Microformats
Take the data that you are already publishing - contact details, events, reviews - and make it more portable and mashable with a simple smattering of markup. http://microforma... 1 note |
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4:20 PM
Ends: 4:40 PM
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Home Automation - First Steps
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4:30 PM
Ends: 5:00 PM
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Travel Time Maps
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4:30 PM
Ends: 5:00 PM
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Power of Information: Rewiring the London Gazette with RDFa
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4:40 PM
Ends: 5:00 PM
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Current Cost
For past few weeks, I've been playing with the 'Current Cost' meter for monitoring home power consumption. (Imagine a kill-a-watt, for your whole house). It looks like this: htt... |
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5:00 PM
Ends: 5:30 PM
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Living on the Edge of the Network
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5:00 PM
Ends: 5:30 PM
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Finding Good TV on the Interwebs with RDF and REST
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5:00 PM
Ends: 5:20 PM
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Data Portability, Your Other Rights Online
Little is known about data portability but its gained quite a lot buzz and has some major players on-board. Well this talk is all about the practical side of data portability. F... 1 note |
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5:20 PM
Ends: 5:40 PM
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Free the Data, Read the Data!
All Government software should come with free downloadable "readers" so that citizens can view data they have a right to - data produced with public money. As more central and l... |
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5:30 PM
Ends: 6:00 PM
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Digital Money
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5:30 PM
Ends: 6:00 PM
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The Bastard Child of Baird and Berners Lee
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5:40 PM
Ends: 6:00 PM
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Open Knowledge: Promises and Challenges
Open Knowledge is material that others are free to access, re-use and redistribute (see opendefinition.org). We are beginning to witness the potential of applications and servic... |
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6:00 PM
Ends: 6:15 PM
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Evening Break
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6:15 PM
Ends: 7:15 PM
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Security Discussion
A panel discussion on hot topics in IT security, speakers will include: Ben Laurie Paul Mutton (Netcraft) Bob Blakley (Burton Group) Graeme Burnett talking about beancounter-led... |
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6:15 PM
Ends: 6:45 PM
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Intro to Hadoop
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6:15 PM
Ends: 6:45 PM
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Guardian.co.uk: building for the open web
The recently relaunched guardian.co.uk has been built ready to allow data and services to flow in and out. In this talk I'll be showing how we are remixing our own content, and ... |
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6:15 PM
Ends: 6:45 PM
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Telling Social and Environmental Stories Using Online Video
"Telling social and environmental stories using online video" is a presentation on how online video and videoblogs can be used to tell stories of social and environmental conseq... |
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6:45 PM
Ends: 7:15 PM
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We Tell Stories
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