NTK
every other friday
backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech 2005
23rd July 2005
from UKUUG & NTK. Supported by backstage.bbc.co.uk
Registration - closed
Provisional Schedule
The final lineup may be subject to change due to 'openness' beyond our control.
Speaker background by ASB.
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Tim Hope, Julian "Dan Ashcroft" Barratt - The Pod (pilot episode): Techno Is Not A Joke The Media Lounge - Media Lounge Gaiden |
Gavin Starks - Exequo open broadcast network James Larsson - Motherboard Kerplunk Steven Goodwin - Cenobitic |
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| 11.30am-12.20pm: | 11.30am-12.20pm: | ||||
| Living Life in Public | Practical Open Content | ||||
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Danny O'Brien: - On the Net, you can go from obscurity to slashdotting to global fame to obscurity without making a penny. You can have privacy or influence, but not both. You can be famous for fifteen people, but not keep a forwarded email a secret. Danny O'Brien talks about the decoupling of fame and fortune, and the new security of obscurity.
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Chair: Suw Charman
Paula Le Dieu: |
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| 12.30pm-1.20pm: | 12.30pm-1.20pm: | ||||
| Ted Nelson: A Countercomputer Universe | Media Hacking | ||||
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Chair: Matt Webb
- Philosopher, film-maker and inventor of hypertext, Ted Nelson
will demonstrate part of a new document system,
Transliterature - which keeps every quotation connected
to its original context - and discuss its copyright doctrine (transcopyright).
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Chair: Ewan Spence
Matt Westcott: |
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| 1.30pm-2pm: | 1.30pm-2pm: | ||||
| 2pm-2.50pm: | 2pm-2.50pm: | ||||
| Launch of backstage.bbc.co.uk | Social Factors and Usability | ||||
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Chair: Ben Hammersley Ben Metcalfe, Project Lead: - The official launch of the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer network, opening up BBC content for you to play with |
Chair: Louise Ferguson Chris Lightfoot and Francis Irving: - Social and technical lessons from mySociety's core projects Martin Belam: - Putting A F__k Off Sized Dalek on the BBC Homepage Isn't Big or Clever John Scott: - Taking digital art to a new stage at Glastonbury Festival |
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| 3pm-3.50pm: | 3pm-3.50pm: | ||||
| The Future is Open (or should be) | Where's the British EFF? | ||||
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Chair: Ben Hammersley Jeremy Zawodny, Yahoo Troublemaker: - The last few years have seen interest surge in "open" technology, standards, formats, and APIs. Why is this important for those who use and write software, those who create and enjoy digital media, and those building new businesses? Jeremy will make some informed speculation where is all this headed and talk about what Yahoo doing in these areas. |
Chair: Danny O'Brien
Does the UK need a membership digital rights organisation? And if so, what cool-sounding acronyms haven't already been taken?
Panel discussion with: |
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| 4pm-4.30pm: | 4pm-4.30pm: | ||||
| 4.30pm-5.20pm: | 4.30pm-5.20pm: | ||||
| BBCi and BBC R&D: Hacking the TV Stream | Blogs and Social Software | ||||
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Chair: George Wright
- BBCi, broadcast content, and the post-PVR landscape The Ludlam family: - Building Britain's biggest PVR - not a "Personal Video Recorder", but a "Promiscuous Video Recorder" Stephen Jolly: - Dirac video compression, and some nifty things you can do with Digital Broadcasting (Slides) |
Chair: Gia Milinovich Tom Reynolds: - Blogging without losing your job Paul Mutton: - Big Brother's Big Brother Paul Lenz: - Who Should You Vote For? launches "What Shall I Read Next?" |
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| 5.30pm-6.20pm: | 5.30pm-6.20pm: | ||||
| Mobile and Wireless | Web Services | ||||
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Chair: Saul Albert Dr Lizbeth Goodman: - Wireless, Seamless, Discreet: style and substance in mobile platforms and projects for the SafetyNET Project Sebastien Noel: - SMS Guerilla Projector and other devices Space Hijackers: - new projects |
Chair: Steve Bowbrick Don Young: - Amazon web services Gavin Bell: - Every page tells a story Lee Bryant: - Collaborative archives Simon Willison and Rob McKinnon: - Augmenting the web with Greasemonkey |
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The final lineup may be subject to change due to 'openness' beyond our control.
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