Clearer Channel

Open Publishing is big news. So big, in fact that I’m going to give it capital letters sometimes. At the moment I read a lot of technology articles about Open…

Clearer Channel is a project which does some hosting. Here are some of the websites hosted here. Some are pretty old but some are recent and active. I like doing…

The Manchester LETS scheme is getting active. It’s hosted on the clearerchannel server (although they are very self sufficient at setting it up!). Here’s some info about what they are…

Sourcefabric who are working to take over from Flossmanuals on the development of Booki have put out the following video. “Sourcefabric builds open source software to support independent media worldwide….

I’ve been visiting Sunseed and have been working on a new website for them. Have a sneak preview here.   [edit - the site has gone live now http://sunseed.org.uk] We sat…

The next HacktionLab gathering will be in Bradford at the 1 in 12 Club on 21-22nd January 2012. For more information keep a look out on the following page. http://hacktivista.net/hacktionlab/index.php/Winter_2012_Hacklab…

The Sourcefabric team used Floss Manuals to write the Newscoop Cookbook.   The open source not-for-profit organisations FLOSS Manuals Foundation and Sourcefabric are pleased to announce their newly forged partnership…

I was asked by Adam from Floss Manuals, if I could facilitate a workshop on Documentation for the TEH network in Bordeaux in late Oct 2011. I was keen to…

Great insights (incites?) as always from Andy Oram from O’Reilly this time about the difference between traditional book writing and collaborative authoring. http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/wrap-up-from-floss-manuals-boo.html There’s also some thought provoking stories on…

This is an image gallery of photos from the Peacemaker project in Oldham. You can see videos made by the young people here.