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Teacamp Thu 1 March 2012: Wikipedia SOPA PIPA

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Mar 012012

Cafe Zest, 2nd floor, House of Fraser, Victoria St London

This weeks special guests are:

James Forrester, Wikipedia editor for 9 years, will talk about the Wikipedia blackout on 16 January 2012 in protest against proposed legislation in the United States – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate.

@jdforrester

Kwai Chi, who recently spoke at Social Media Week London, will talk about the SOPA and PIPA proposed legislation, the response from online communities and the impact of this response.

@kwaichi

3rd Agile Tea Camp – SMEs

Jan 192012

This month featuring:

Mark O’Neill who will be updating on the G-cloud Framework
Stephen Allott, who is the Government’s Crown Representative for SMEs will talk about government opening up contracts to small businesses, and how those plans will evolve in 2012
Ian Sears who works for John Collington’s Government procurement team will update us on the Lean Review and “license to source”

Time and place

19th Jan
Cafe Zest, 4pm – 6pm at 2nd floor House of Fraser, 101 Victoria St London SW1E 6QX

Teacamp original – Emer Coleman

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Jan 122012

This month featuring….

@Emercoleman will talk about @Londondatastore and the challenges for innovation in government

Time and place

12th of January, not the 5th as usual
Back in Cafe Zest, 4pm – 6pm at 2nd floor House of Fraser, 101 Victoria St London SW1E 6QX

Teacamp original – Betagov

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Dec 012011

Richard Pope from the Government Digital Service spoke about the Betagov team and how they are working. @govuk http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/category/single-government-domain/

2nd Agile Tea Camp – Procure and Deliver

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Nov 222011

Chris Parsons from the Agile Delivery Network talked about his organisation’s work on E-petitions and how, through Agile, they very quickly delivered a website capable of supporting 6.5m visits and 30m page views.

David Hardstaff from Eximium talked about the role of the intelligent buyer within the procurement process:

agile is successful when the buyer understands what they need, as opposed to what they want, and takes into account trade-offs such as ease versus complexity or open versus secure, which add to the cost and time to deliver a project.

Teacamp original – UKTI / LinkedIn

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Nov 032011

UKTI / LinkedIn success story. Kevin Partridge discussed how UKTI has built up its LinkedIn group with over 9000 members to promote their services and directly engage with businesses.

1st Tea Cloud Camp – Held at the IFG offices

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Oct 202011

Chris Chant, Programme Director for the Government’s G-cloud initiative gave his ‘Unacceptable’ speech about how the new G-Cloud is a sign of public sector IT becoming more flexible, modern and better value and offering the ‘first pay as you go’ approach to IT.

Steve Fosten, Senior Safer Neighbourhoods Officer from North Lincolnshire Council talked about how Cloud had allowed all the emergency services to be linked up for the very first time.

Future dates for your diaries:

Feb 16th: 2nd Tea Cloud camp – NAO Offices, Central London from 4-6 pm – Registration Reg’d

Mar 15th: 4th Agile Tea Camp – Cafe Zest, Victoria Street from 4-6pm

Apr 19th: 3rd Tea Cloud camp – Microsoft Offices, Cardinal Place, Victoria from 4-6pm – Registration req’d

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Teacamp original – LinkedGov and social media in Gov ICT strategy

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Oct 062011

Hadley Beeman and Glyn Wintle will update us on LinkedGov.org
@hadleybeemanSteve Wilkes Home Office will talk about the accessing social media strand of the government ICT strategy. (Information Communication Technology).The Home Office leads on this strand across government and Steve would like to outline current thinking and get your views.
@StevenRWilkes

1st Agile Tea camp – How Agile works!

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Sep 222011

Richard Pawson from Naked Objects talked about his experience working with the Department of Social Protection in Ireland on delivering a benefits administration system. Richard put into context how complicated child payments could be, and explained that this was one of 40 agile projects delivered for DSP.

Mark Foden from Foden Grealy took to the floor, quite literally, when he designed an agile model on the floor with sticky tape and paper, and nimbly leapt from box to box to show how agile can work in practice.

Teacamp original – ScraperWiki.com and the Open Knowledge Foundation

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Sep 012011

Nicola Hughes from ScraperWiki.com talked about getting information from data and social media; using it to inform the public and the government with ways of looking at spending and tweeting.
@DataMinerUK http://scraperwiki.com/profiles/NicolaHughes/

Dr Rufus Pollock, Director and Co-Founder of The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) talked about OKF and its work. The OKF is a not-for-project founded in 2004 that builds tools and communities to create, use and share open knowledge – content and data that everyone can use, share and build on. Its work includes projects like http://ckan.org/ (which powers data.gov.uk), http://openspending.org/ and http://openshakespeare.org/, events like OKCON http://okcon.org/ and the Open Government Data Camp http://ogdcamp.org/ and a wide set of community activities such its working groups http://okfn.org/wg/.
http://okfn.org/about/ @rufuspollock http://rufuspollock.org/