What
An informal meeting (a BarCamp) of people interested in the Scottish Public Sector and the web. There will be open discussions on a number of topics (see below) led by someone with an interest in those fields. There will also be food and drink. While there will be people from roster agencies present they will not try to sell you anything under pain of being defenestrated from Microsoft's fine offices overlooking Waverley Station.
Why
The digital landscape is changing fast. Web 2.0, social media, open source, the credit crunch, website rationalisation all present new challenges we all must face.
Should we be working together?
What skills are organisations going to need in future?
Who has already done it?
And how do you actually do this stuff?
Hopefully this barcamp will go some way to establishing connections and help share experience so we can all do our jobs better.
When
Friday 27 March, 5pm - 7pm
Where
Conan Doyle Suite, Microsoft offices, Waverley Gate, 2-4 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EG
Sponsors
Microsoft Scotland
Sessions
FEEL FREE TO ADD MORE
Social networking
Discussion leader:
"I'll volunteer for this." says Mike Coulter, DigitalAgency.com
(or if anybody else wants to do it, I'll happily run a discussion about Twitter?)
Wordpress
Discussion leader: "I'm happy to do this" - Stewart Kirkpatrick
Video
Discussion leader: Christian Storstein
Freeing our data
Discussion leader: Alex Stobart happy to do something here. Peter Winstanley happy to help out too.
Participants
Please add your name or email: stewart AT w00tonomy DOT com
- Stewart Kirkpatrick, w00tonomy.com
- Christian Storstein, Scottish Government
- Alex Stobart, Enterprising Scotland
- Mike Donoghue, Story
- Dave Mullen, Story
- Andy Hyde
- Allan Tanner, Forestry Commission Scotland
- Ross Lyon, Digital Coms - Scottish Government
- Paul McGinness , Storm ID
- Mike Coulter, Social Media Consultant, DigitalAgency.com.
- Kyle MacRae
- William Paul, Head of Digital Coms - Scottish Government
- Peter Winstanley, Scottish Government
- Kirsten Boag, Digital Coms - Scottish Government
- Donald McBryde, Digital Coms - Scottish Government
- Gerry Scullion, Transport Scotland
- Emma Armstrong, SPICE
- Chris Brown, SPICE
- Stephen Doran, Quality Meat Scotland
- Nicki Sprinz, NHS Health Scotland
- James Coltham, City of Edinburgh Council and prettysimple.co.uk
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.
Please use the tag (fill in your tag -- usually barcamp{location}) for content related to this event
Please use this google group if you want to post items for discussion - email, etc:
http://groups.google.com/group/scottishpublicsectorbarcamp/
email: scottishpublicsectorbarcamp@googlegroups.com
