…we sort of are a legacy of the original spirit of the web, and that’s very much what the Wikimedia Foundation was created to do — to ensure that Wikipedia was preserved as a nonprofit entity, with respect for community governance, and in the public interest and in the public spirit.
Tag: web
LINK: “Kick-off for the essex.gov.uk project”
To help us understand the ‘as is’ in more detail we’ve gathered insights from available data and call centre staff, tested how easy it is for users to find things on the site and identified some key gaps in understanding around the importance of designing for user need, measurement and accessibility.
Original: https://servicedesign.blog.essex.gov.uk/2018/04/12/kick-off-for-the-essex-gov-uk-project/
Five for Friday (19/5/17)
Five more nuggets of interest I’ve spotted this week:
- Jessica Lessin built a business to prove information doesn’t have to be free – great podcast about the different models emerging for journalism online. The Information is a great site, by the way (I’m a subscriber).
- The Department for Health’s fantastic digital team are hiring a Content Editor. You have until 28th May 2017 to apply.
- The Weird Thing About Today’s Internet – fantastic piece looking at the last ten years of the web.
- Making local authority data work for you – useful looking resource on open data delivered by the ODI and LGA in partnership (I think).
- James Governor summarises Microsoft’s Build conference for us in three minutes:
These have all been tweeted during the week, and you can find everything I’ve found interesting and bookmarked here.
Working openly on the web
There was a nice guest post from Doug Belshaw from Mozilla on Brian Kelly’s blog last week.
Entitled What Does Working Openly on the Web Mean in Practice?, it told us a bit about Mozilla’s culture of openness and how it ties into web based working.
Here’s a quick quote:
Working open is not only in Mozilla’s DNA but leads to huge benefits for the project more broadly. While Mozilla has hundreds of paid contributors, they have tens of thousands of volunteer contributors — all working together to keep the web open and as a platform for innovation. Working open means Mozilla can draw on talent no matter where in the world someone happens to live. It means people with what Clay Shirky would call cognitive surplus can contribute as much or as little free time and labour to projects as they wish. Importantly, it also leads to a level of trust that users can have in Mozilla’s products. Not only can they inspect the source code used to build the product, but actually participate in discussions about its development.
But you really ought to go and read the whole thing.
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Software in 2014
- Joho the Blog » What blogging was – *sniff*
- Is Local GDS a good idea? « @demsoc
- Let’s Replace Council Websites with Local.Gov.Uk – a GDS for Local Government – @copley_rich
- Joined Up Philanthropy data standards: seeking simplicity, and depth – @timdavies
- Can we fix democracy? #ukvotecamp | Sharon O’Dea
- [toread] How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet
- [toread] Broadcast Education: a Response to Coursera – Hybrid Pedagogy
- Virtual Community Summit – great looking community management conference / via @fevebee
- The Intrinsic Value of Blogging | Matt Mullenweg
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- Lockdown – Marco.org (thoughts on RSS etc)
- Doug Engelbart, visionary
- David Wilcox » Realising the knowledge assets of research for the rest of us – how about a set of recipe cards?
- LEGO Cultures of Creativity report launched today – David Gauntlett
- Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones! / Could be big news – I hope so
- On Medium
- Learning is too important to be left to the professionals | Harold Jarche
- Half an Hour: RSS Changeover Day Experiences
- David Wilcox » A new initiative supporting communities to develop digital assets
- The Race To Replace Google Reader – ReadWrite
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- Taming the Python – geting started programming on your Raspberry Pi
- Battle for the planet of the APIs
- Returning to Free Software: A Guide
- Robots and Robber Barons – NYTimes.com via @euan
- Onion Pi – Make a Raspberry Pi into a Anonymizing Tor Proxy!
- Why Java Is Still Relevant — I.M.H.O. — Medium
- Lights, camera, democracy in action – New rights for journalists and bloggers to film council meetings
- Introducing the new digital inclusion team | Government Digital Service
- MediaGoblin – free software media publishing platform
- Swedes say no to Google Apps for government use — Tech News and Analysis
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- Toe and HTTPS | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The Dark Side of E-Books
- To the internet giants, you’re not a customer. You’re just another user – by @jjn1
- meandering thoughts on the NSA scandal from @zephoria
- inessential.com: How We Work Together
- Yocto Project | Open Source embedded Linux build system, package metadata and SDK generator
- So what is the future of social media in learning? – @learningpool @watfordgap
- Announcing Open Source Junction 5: Open Source Meets the Public Sector
- A quick personal reflection on @XJamGov and #ggovjam from @carlhaggerty
- Getting Started: Building a Chrome Extension
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- David Wilcox » As the Knowledge Hub faces closure, might a creative Twitter mob help with re-invention?
- the 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist
- Make and share useful lists | Gini
- Google Reader alternatives | Gini
- Some things I’ve learnt about public speaking | John Graham-Cumming
- Evan Williams on Building a Mindful Company | Holacracy
- Reasons for Innovation Management
- Whatever happened to open government and open policy? A scorecard
- PieCrust — A static website generator and lightweight CMS.
- A guide to opening government: Help us to develop a citizen engagement chapter | Involve
- Make Things Do Stuff
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- Home – Lincoln Matrix
- Richard Stallman: My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs
- “My favorite programming language:” Google’s Go has some coders raving | Ars Technica
- David Wilcox » Ten pillars of wisdom: a manifesto for a better later life
- Passing the Public Interest Test – Government and Blogs – dxw
- The Real Reason Hadoop Is Such A Big Deal In Big Data – ReadWrite
- Web Development Course Online – How To Build A Blog – Udacity
- #KHub’s potential closure an analogy for #Localgov | Carl’s Notepad
- O’Reilly Commons – WikiContent
- Code for Europe