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Opentech 2017 - 13th May

Hey all, Since word of mouth these days seems to mean posting to twitter, which works less well than mailing lists used to, here’s an email to send to your friends :)

The OpenTech provisionally final schedule is now up - http://www.opentech.org.uk/2017/schedule - it’s never actually final until people start talking, but hopefully it won’t change too much.

Thanks to our lovely sponsors, The Indigo Trust, we have free entry for students, those working in not-for-profit organisations, public sector, or otherwise on low incomes (which covers the previous two categories too). If you think this covers you, it probably does - just have relevant ID at the door and we’ll waive the entry fee.

If you’ve already booked, you got an email this morning saying so (the first 4 words are "you have already booked"). If not, then you haven’t booked, and should pre-register here: http://www.opentech.org.uk/2017/registration

We’re over half full, so if you’ve not booked your place yet, you should probably do so now (and remind your friend who’s probably forgotten).

Announcement follows

See you in not-very-long-at-all,

Sam and David

With a month until OpenTech 2017, we’re really excited by this year’s schedule. As you’ll see it’s a fantastic, diverse line up of talks by a whole range of people working on issues and projects that really matter, after a year of democracy doing things that it wasn’t necessarily expected to do. Go take a look at: http://www.opentech.org.uk/2017/schedule.

Highlights include:

We survived 2016, what about 2017?

Standards for Private Browsing

This is for .everyone

post-FUBAR: what’s next?

Privacy: 23 million children

DIY ISP

MicroPython, micro:bit and a Million Children

Design thinking - build it faster

What can deep learning reveal about beautiful places?

Mapping Land Ownership

Periods: a provocation

Open Organs - Post-biological Organ Trade

The future: Hope, Scale, or Change?

All this and much, much more.

Tickets are £5 on the door, but to make sure you get in on the day, you can pre-register here:http://www.opentech.org.uk/2017/

We're already about half booked and tickets are selling fast, so don’t miss out. And don’t forget to remind your friends - OpenTech is as much about the people attending, as the speakers.

For those who’ve not been before... OpenTech is an informal, low cost (thanks to The Indigo Trust for sponsoring), one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, problems and democracy. You are guaranteed a day of thoughtful, thought-provoking talks leading to lively conversations with friends. Besides the sessions, there’ll be plenty of time to talk in the bar which will be open until 10pm.

Switch off, sit back and enjoy the show

As ever, while there is technically some wifi in the building, as soon as we all show up, there will no longer be any working wifi in the building. So listen to the speakers (or your mates in the bar) rather than compulsively refreshing twitter errors, wondering if you should have gone to a different session based on the tweets sent over 4G.

Thanks to sponsorship from The Indigo Trust, those who are students or who work for not for profit organisations get free entry. OpenTech takes place at our usual location - the (formerly known as) University of London Union on Malet St (now known as Student Central). For entry to their building, house rules apply.

If you would like to help make the day as successful as previous OpenTechs, we're also looking for a few more volunteers to help out, email opentech@opentech.org.uk

Oh, and did we mention? You can pre-register your tickets here: http://www.opentech.org.uk/2017/registration

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What’s happening at OpenTech 2017

With a month until OpenTech 2017, we’re really excited by this year’s schedule. As you’ll see it’s a fantastic, diverse line up of talks by a whole range of people working on issues and projects that really matter, after a year of democracy doing things that it wasn’t necessarily expected to do. Go take a look at: http://www.opentech.org.uk/2017/schedule.

Highlights include:

We survived 2016, what about 2017?

Standards for Private Browsing

This is for .everyone

post-FUBAR: what’s next?

Privacy: 23 million children

DIY ISP

MicroPython, micro:bit and a Million Children

Design thinking - build it faster

What can deep learning reveal about beautiful places?

Mapping Land Ownership

Periods: a provocation

Open Organs - Post-biological Organ Trade

The future: Hope, Scale, or Change?

All this and much, much more.

Tickets are £5 on the door, but to make sure you get in on the day, you can pre-register here:http://www.opentech.org.uk/2017/

We're already about half booked and tickets are selling fast, so don’t miss out. And don’t forget to remind your friends - OpenTech is as much about the people attending, as the speakers.

For those who’ve not been before... OpenTech is an informal, low cost (thanks to The Indigo Trustfor sponsoring), one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, problems and democracy. You are guaranteed a day of thoughtful, thought-provoking talks leading to lively conversations with friends. Besides the sessions, there’ll be plenty of time to talk in the bar which will be open until 10pm.

Switch off, sit back and enjoy the show As ever, while there is technically some wifi in the building, as soon as we all show up, there will no longer be any working wifi in the building. So listen to the speakers (or your mates in the bar) rather than compulsively refreshing twitter errors, wondering if you should have gone to a different session based on the tweets sent over 4G.

Thanks to sponsorship from The Indigo Trust, those who are students or who work for not for profit organisations get free entry. OpenTech takes place at our usual location - the (formerly known as) University of London Union on Malet St (now known as Student Central). For entry to their building, house rules apply.

If you would like to help make the day as successful as previous OpenTechs, we're also looking for a few more volunteers to help out, email opentech@opentech.org.uk.

Oh, and did we mention? You can pre-register your tickets here:http://www.opentech.org.uk/2017/registration

Your friendly opentech organisers

This event's predecessors, in 2013, 2011, 2010 2009 (audio) 2008- and 2005 were low cost, one-day conferences about technologies that anyone can have a go at, from "Open Source"- style ways of working to repurposing everyday electronics hardware. Before that was NotCon 2004, an informal, low-cost, one-day conference on things that technologies were perhaps not intended to do.

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OpenTech 2017 - Registration is open

OpenTech 2017 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, experience and democracy. Talks by people who work on things that matter, guarantees a day of thoughtful talks leading to conversations with friends.

We’re back on the 13th May, with old friends and new talking, about:

SSL for fun and chaos

Crowdsourcing beauty*

People or Pixels?

.Everyone

Bill and Gavin

Be Bold

Democracy Club

Really wearable hardware*

Law: Changers and breakers*

The Open Rights Group

Ooops: Data on 20 million (ex)children

Ooops; Brexit, open, tech, and beyond*

We’re less than half full on the schedule, so there’s still plenty of space for more - especially smaller and more specialist geek topics - the more esoteric the better.  What is it you think about that the geek world should know more about (especially starred categories above) ? ��http://www.opentech.org.uk/2017/offer/  

What else do we need?

Can your organisation sponsor opentech? We need a sponsor to make the event work. £5k is what it takes to run the event, which means that we don’t have to turn anyone away who wishes to attend (until we hit fire capacity).

We need you to come along! There are a lot more talks to be announced, but registration is now open. We usually hit capacity for the venue, so you need to pre-register if you want to get in (we take money on the day): http://www.opentech.org.uk/2017/

Once you’ve booked your place, please tell your friends to come too.

More soon. Sooner, if you offer the talk you’ve always thought you should give ;) We'd love to hear about it, and are happy to help you figure out how your idea works in practice

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OpenTech 2017 - coming soon

Ahoy, Survivors of 2016!

OpenTech will return on the 13th May, at a soon to be disclosed location in London.

If you’re interested in talking, email opentech@opentech.org.uk

If you know someone who should talk, email them and us saying why.

If you have £5.5k to sponsor the event, definitely email us. We take a single event sponsor to cover costs, and turn no one away from the event on the basis of the entry fee.

We’ll send more details in a couple of weeks, when we have a call for talks - but emailing us now gets you into that first announcement.

Hoping the New Year is bringing what you hoped...

Your friendly opentech organisers,

Sam & David.

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gitfs - building a filesystem in Python

A mobile web of apps and documents

meditation for opentech-types?

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Science in Action

Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists & Engineers - Confessions of a Science Communicator

Science and Democracy

Science as Art

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Democracy in action

I stood as a candidate, and...

Democracy Club

The Twitter Election?

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Blockchains, addressing, and everything

Blockchains - the power of trustless networks

Let's redecentralize

Addressing data

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OpenPump: open-source hardware for medical devices

OpenHealthCare

Open Access Research

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From the Tip: physical infrastructure lessons for data.

Do you know where you medical records go?

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Moving government publishing to GOV.UK without breaking the web

Open Source Journalism

I hacked 1,000 UK Government websites. Stop me before I hack again!

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Not the Government Digital Service

DVLA Digital

statistically significant: what next for the "world's worst website"?

HSC Digital Service

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Lost in Tech Translation

360Giving : Open Funding Data

The Cult of Equity

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The State

The State of the Network Address

The State of Data

Bill Thompson and Gavin Starks

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Beyond Snowdenia:

RIPA 2?

The 3rd year of Snowdenia

Privacy: I do not think that word means what you think it means

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Session #C1:

Un-artificial Intelligence: How people learn

Objects of Intrigue: Modifying object behaviour to increase interaction

how we spent a year turning a caravan into a spaceship

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Audio: 10 years of the Open Rights Group