Posted on November 28, 2007 by watfordgap
Just a couple of new releases and new discoveries to share with you today.
Nick Blundell (one of the team at Illuminate ICT) has made the release candidate version of SmartBOX 1.0.
SmartBOX is completely open source easy-to-install, easy-to-manage resilient, minimal hardware specification, and feature rich network server, with an emphasis on ease of use by non-technical [...]
Filed under: FOSS, ICT Hub, ICT Volunteer, Ubuntu, Web 2.0, linux, nptech, nptechuk | No Comments »
Posted on November 22, 2007 by watfordgap
Do you ever go into an event thinking you’ll have heard it all before?
This was my thought as we got ready for the older people’s ICT conference today. This is the second time we’ve run an ICT Hub conference at Blackburne House here in Liverpool and surely ICT is ICT is ICT? Why is [...]
Filed under: Circuit Riders, Funding, ICT Hub, ICT Support, Older People, nptech, nptechuk | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 15, 2007 by watfordgap
Oh this ones a bit of a firework…..
This research report from GMCVO makes very interesting reading.
Hang on! Why is he blogging about a report that says new innovations in ICT aren’t one of the top priorities that the voluntary sector needs from it’s ICT (no watfordgap isn’t closing just two days after the first birthday!)
But [...]
Filed under: ICT Hub, ICT Services, ICT Support, Web 2.0, nptech, nptechuk | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 13, 2007 by watfordgap
It rather crept up on me without me realising, but today, after 365 days my blog has reached its first birthday.
Yes, I am a little surprised to have got to this point as many bloggers give up and at times finding both space to blog and subject material to blog about has been quite [...]
Filed under: Blogs I read a lot, ICT Hub, Random Musing, Regional Champion, Web 2.0, nptech, nptechuk | 4 Comments »
Posted on November 12, 2007 by watfordgap
In my email this morning there was a link from Helen at South Witham Broadband (part of the Community Broadband Network) to the website of the recent Silver Surfer award ceremony. In these Richard from Martley Mesh was awarded the prize for the Silver Surfer Entrepreneur of the year in the work he did [...]
Filed under: ICT Hub, Older People, Regional Champion, Rural Things, nptech, nptechuk | No Comments »
Posted on November 7, 2007 by watfordgap
It wasn’t meant as a challenge, but Tony Okotie, the East Midlands Regional Champion has been doing some research into alternatives to proprietary ICT equipment. It can’t beat the Bristol Wireless crew on price, but this is a brand new laptop from ASUS running Linux, Open Office and all the FOSS software you could want.
To [...]
Filed under: East Midlands Region, East of England Region, FOSS, ICT Hub, SKiLD, Ubuntu, Yorkshire and The Humber Region, Youth, nptech, nptechuk | 3 Comments »
