I was delighted to join the staff and students at MIT Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media. I shared an overview of the Government Digital Service journey The talk was kindly live blogged by Rodrigo, Ed and Erhardt.
Taking two days out of the hectic build up to the full launch of GOV.UK, I spoke at Javazone 2012 in Oslo to share the GDS story so far. You can find a video of the talk on vimeo.
This weekend was the inaugural BarCamp Grand Rapids. I was only able to make it for the day on Saturday, missing the previous evening’s introductions, talks, and trip to Grand Rapids Brewing Company, but it was good to be able to attend, and even better to have it just a short bike ride away. It was a fairly small group that was gathered, so almost all of the sessions ran in a single room. Java developers were in the majority—probably not a surprise given that it was the local Java Users’ Group that put the event together—but those of us working with dynamic languages made sure that those languages got their share of mentions. ...