UK Youth Parliament social media guidelines

Just turn up at Cafe Zest from 4pm on the day, you don’t need to book a place in advance and is open to everyone. It is very informal in the corner of the cafe, and very friendly. If you are coming for the first time or on your own, find me (Jane O’Loughlin) and I will introduce you to some teacampers.

• 4pm – 4.30pm : people arrive, have a chat and a cup of tea
• 4.30 – 4.40pm: Rhammel  will talk for  10 mins
• 4.40pm – 6pm: discussion with everyone and some people break into smaller groups and chat and catch up
• 6pm: sometimes there is beercamp in nearest pub, often lead by @baskers..

Contact me @teacamplondon if you would like more information.

• Mary McKenna ( @MMaryMcKenna ) is the Director of Learning Pool, the successful winner of last year’s No.10′s Innovation Launch Pad for entrepreneurs.  She has perviously been a Director at Agility Consulting. Mary will talk briefly about how Learning Pool has created a viable business model around open source technology in a way that saves customers money, provides flexibility and encourages public sector customers to share and collaborate with each other.

• Malcolm Lowe, deputy SRO for Agile , will introduce the  new HM Government Agile community site, being launched at Agile Tea.

• Paul Dolman-Darrall from Emergyn will be giving you his personal perspective of the story of one of the most Agile projects government has ever seen but never realised. Called ‘The four weeks that saved Ed Balls’ this is the 4 weeks following the nightmare that became true for Ed Balls who faced pressure both within the Common’s and front page news when ETS failed to deliver a £156m  SATS scoring system.

• 17th May – Just come along, there is no need to book
• Cafe Zest, 4pm – 6pm at 2nd floor House of Fraser, 101 Victoria St London SW1E 6QX

Social media guidelines teacamp

Are you writing or updating or interested in social media guidelines? Or do you just want to come and mingle with some digital people?  If so, come along and share your thoughts and views with:

Louise Kidney @loulouk Government Digital Service;  Tim Lloyd @timolloyd Dept for Business;  Julia Chandler @juliac2 DFID;  @nettienoodles Ministry of Justice; Alice Ainsworth @aliceainsworth Dept for Health; Robin Riley @robinwryley HMRC; Simon Everest @simoneverest DEFRA;

and also Steph Gray @lesteph Helpful technology and The Magic Dragon @Puffles

Louise, Tim and Steph will do five mins each on guidelines they are writing / have written, followed by discussion with everyone.

How teacamp works…

Just turn up at Cafe Zest from 4pm on the day, you don’t need to book a place in advance and is open to everyone. It is very informal in the corner of the cafe, and very friendly. If you are coming for the first time or on your own, find me (Jane O’Loughlin) and I will introduce you to some teacampers.

• 4pm – 4.30pm : people arrive, have a chat and a cup of tea
• 4.30 – 4.45pm: Louise, Tim and Steph will do 5 mins each on guidelines they are writing / have written
• 4.55pm – 6pm: discussion with everyone and some people break into smaller groups and chat and catch up
• 6pm: sometimes there is beercamp in nearest pub, often lead by @baskers..

Contact me @teacamplondon if you would like more information.

• Les Oliver  from Connections Agile Services will be updating us on progress of the joint-approach to the Agile Transformation Programme to the Ordnance Survey organisation, the progress to date and the challenges encountered along the way.

• Ebrahim Gora from the NAO will be telling us about 2 pieces of work currently underway on Agile. This work is to  create an  awareness of agile projects underway across government, assist in information exchange between these projects and identifying organisations with skills and experienced people who could possibly help with the cross-government piece and to help build a wider support and information sharing network.

• 15th March – Just come along, there is no need to book
• Cafe Zest, 4pm – 6pm at 2nd floor House of Fraser, 101 Victoria St London SW1E 6QX

This weeks special guests are:

• Denise McDonagh will provide both an operational and a programme view of Cloud, from her position as Director of ICT for Home Office, and Deputy Programme Lead for the G-cloud for Government. She will update on the progress with new G-cloud framework and will offer her views on how Government is progressing with the challenge of the ‘Unacceptable’. Denise will also talk about using cloud services in government and getting to grips with the Government Application Store.

• James Smith who works with Tonino Ciuffini, Head of Information Assets at Warwickshire County Council, a foundation partner on the government’s G-Cloud programme with talk about their recent project migrating the email service from on-premise to Google Apps public cloud solution providing insight into lessons learned and top tips.

• The event will be held on Thursday 16th February from 4 pm – 6pm at 

• Charity Cloud Computing Network: the aim is to reduce costs for charities through alternatives to direct funding. The city council are holding an IT support forum for charities in March and discussion will include: what dopeople need to live in a digital world   http://www.westminsterintouch.com/
• Getting homeless people online: the aim is to get smart phones and free wifi for homeless people to help them keep in contact with family and agencies, giving them an address and identity.

•    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”

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

• 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