OggCamp approaches!
I’m getting quite ridiculously excited about an upcoming event… I’m good friends with the team from the Ubuntu UK Podcast and have been privileged to be invited onto the show as a guest host twice now....
View ArticleThe late, late OggCamp 11 write-up… and more UUPC
Forever Delayed It has been several weeks since OggCamp 11 now. I’ve been meaning to post a quick recap for a while. I’ve written before about being friends with the crew from the Ubuntu UK Podcast...
View ArticleTransferSummit 2011
One of the benefits of having attended OggCamp a few weeks ago was that I became aware of another event. Steve Lee, one of the speakers at OggCamp, is also involved with TransferSummit, and he was good...
View ArticleVirtual Worlds and Technology Futures
Last week I was privileged to be invited to give the closing keynote at an event called ReLIVE 11 (Research and Learning in Virtual Environments) at the Open University. This was certainly a big deal...
View ArticleEuropean WebSphere Technical Conference 2011
Although I realise that it seems as though I do little other than spin around “the conference circuit” at the moment what with the various events I’ve blogged about lately, that isn’t entirely true!...
View ArticleInterview with Uhuru, and more events in the pipeline
As my new role continues, a podcast I recorded with Michael Surkan over at Uhuru Software has just gone online. Uhuru provide hosting based on the Cloud Foundry platform, and add first-class support...
View ArticleMy first VMworld
I’m very excited to be here with my colleagues and our customers and partners at the annual VMworld conference, this year held in San Francisco (conveniently close to our HQ and also the location where...
View ArticleUpcoming speaking gigs
Fresh from a quick presentation and supporting Hackference this past weekend (more on that soon), I’ve turned my attention to the next couple of months of travel and events. There’s a lot of stuff...
View ArticleOn joining Twitter
I’ve been settling into my new role at Twitter over the past few months. I’m a Developer Advocate on the Developer and Platform Relations team, based out of a beautiful new London office we opened a...
View ArticleComing up on The Lost Outpost…
I’ve fallen seriously behind on blogging, and I’m less busy with work than I have been recently, so here are some of the posts you can expect to read in the next week or three… (I’ll come back and link...
View ArticleMy next steps – joining the Cloud Foundry team
I’m very excited to announce that, from April 10th, I will be joining the Developer Relations team for Cloud Foundry at VMware. This is a thrilling opportunity for me for a number of reasons. from a...
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Geekery in 8-bits and more
In which I get misty-eyed and nostalgic, geek out over electronics, and think about mobile and the cloud. Then On Saturday I went along to the Horizons 30th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum event,...
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Activities with Forge & Craft
This year, we’ve been working on improving the profile of our small maker studio – in particular, through getting out to different kinds of events. For those not aware, for about 18 months now we’ve...
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Community breakfast
After The Event I knew I would be taking a period of time to recover and re-discover my roots. Around this same time last year, I was clicking around groups on Eventbrite and found Community Pros of...
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High Tide
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about some of the events we’ve been doing as our studio. Today, we were at the High Tide Festival in Twickenham, just across the Thames from home. We generally pop over...
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Return of the Ogg(Camp)
One of the earliest community events that I got heavily involved with here in the UK was OggCamp. Back in the later part of the first decade of the 21st Century, otherwise known as around about 2009,...
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Learning about the ATmosphere
Quick post, mostly to journal things. This evening, I went along to an interesting talk about ATProto and its ecosystem, that was held at Newspeak House in Shoreditch. This was a presentation by Dan...
View ArticleAn OggCamp preview
I had the pleasure of reminiscing about OggCamps from “Days of Yore” with the excellent Les Pounder yesterday, in an episode of the Tom’s Harware Pi Cast. If you’ve never been to an OggCamp, hopefully...
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My brief notes on day 1 of Fediforum Sep 2024
[I don’t know whether I’ll write about each day of Fediforum individually… and I expect to be posting less regularly for a week or so, due to other things going on…] Photo by Lisa Fotios on Pexels.com...
View ArticleOverview of the Fediverse Discovery Providers project
At Fediforum today, Renaud and I presented on the new Fediverse Discovery Providers project, initiated by Mastodon gGmbH via a grant from NGI Search. The slide deck below mostly presents the...
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Get Involved at OggCamp 2024: bring a talk or demo
As I write this, OggCamp 2024 (which I have subtitled The Return in my head’s inner monologue) is a little over a week away. You can still get a ticket and join us! A few of us have done a little bit...
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Meetup.com is so over
Another day, another batch of events I’ve been on the list for, either announcing they are moving away from Meetup.com, or, another batch of emails telling me that the organiser has abandoned the...
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Talks and travels – RightsCon Taipei
I’m currently in Taipei – my first visit to Taiwan. This week I’m attending RightsCon 2025, along with my friend Felix from the Mastodon core team. It is a critical time for digital human rights (and...
View ArticleFediForum Advisory Board
I’m really happy to have been asked to join the new FediForum Advisory Board that is helping to guide and steer the future of the event. We are proud to announce the first-ever FediForum advisory...
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Revisiting the clouds
Thirteen years ago yesterday, I was speaking at the first meeting of the London Platform-as-a-Service User Group (now, the London Platform User Group, aka LOPUG). I’d joined VMware a few weeks before,...
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