Guy Dickinson and I have submitted our proposal for “Ideas for My Council” to Building Democracy, a new initiative from the Democratic Engagement Branch of the Ministry of Justice (what a fantastic department name). The competition is not dissimilar to Show Us a Better Way from Tom Watson & co., to which we’ve also submitted this proposal. You can view our proposal on the Building Democracy site.
Various of the previous projects were run by the awesome My Society, e.g. Fax Your MP which became WriteToThem, so winners of this competition would be in good company.
Fingers crossed.
I’ve spent a fair amount of the day today looking into fantastic presentations, and what makes them look fantastic. Presentations are really hard aren’t they? Getting up in front of people. Putting your points and ideas up there to be criticised. We need to give ourselves the best chance of interesting and engaging people, to increase the chances of a better.
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I spent the weekend in the company of 50 or so other WordPress users, designers, developers, the odd Aussie Automattician, and a WordPress lead developer at the first WordCamp UK. It was great to meet a such a varied and interesting group of bloggers and blog makers, many of whom I’m going to have to wait until next year to properly talk to… a weekend is just too short!
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My presentation for WordCamp UK on WordPress Plugin Development (although I will update this soon with better slide notes): PDF version.
You can click on the mockup above, to see a full screen view of the mockup.
This mockup is part of a submission that Guy Dickinson of Participo and I are submitting for the UK Government’s “Show Us A Better Way“ competition to create innovative and socially useful applications with Government data.
Update: You can see the idea on the “Show Us a Better Way” site now, Ideas for My Council.
Update 2: Guy and I have now submitted this idea to the “Building Democracy” site. Fingers crossed (again).
My phone used to sync with iCal several times a day, but when I upgraded to Leopard it wiped my cron tab file and all that goodness stopped. (Your crontab file is a way of scheduling tasks on your Mac using the Terminal application.) I’ve just googled around for the solution and found it again: Use cron to automate iSync at non-standard intervals. Nice neat solution, to which I would only add the following: 0 8,10,12,14 * * * osascript -e ‘tell application “iSync” to synchronize’ >> /dev/null Whenever a Cron command runs, any output is sent by email to the account handler. This simply builds up as unsendable email in the system, or spams you every time the script runs… either way it’s not good. The >> /dev/null simply sends any output into a black hole so it doesn’t bother me.
Originally I’m sure I had this set so iSync closed down again when it was done… so maybe more to follow.
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