Blogs
Progress on the Mountain Rescue website
Blogged by Steve Parks on Saturday, 6 January 2010
It's now nearly 8pm on Saturday, and I now have wifi access in a cafe (we've been without access at the mountain rescue centre) - so it's time for a quick roundup of progress.
* We scoped out the user stories with the head of the mountain rescue team to make sure we build the site that best suits the needs of their visitors and staff.
* A local dev server was set up by Alice, Stephen Mount, and Dan giving us a drupal 6.15 codebase to build the site on, plus an installation of Atrium for project management. >> READ MORE
UK Drupal Weekend - Taking on the challenge
Blogged by Steve Parks on Saturday, 6 January 2010
As you may have read in Kamila's previous post, we're part of a group of UK Drupal developers who have volunteered to spend the weekend developing a new website for the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue team, in the Lake District. >> READ MORE
Building a site in a weekend for Mountain Rescue
Blogged by Kamila Miara on Saturday, 6 January 2010
A group of Drupallers have got together to work for a higher cause – to update, simplify and revamp the website of Langdale/Ambleside Mountain Rescue. All keen, all volunteers, all in one weekend; I’ll keep you updated on what’s happening here in the Langdale/Ambleside Mountain Rescue premises:
The project starts with a meeting in the Mountain Rescue Premises and with a lot of coffee. >> READ MORE
Open Atrium at the World Bank
Blogged by Steve Parks on Saturday, 6 September 2009
The World Bank has rolled out use of Open Atrium to manage its internal communications on projects and respond to disasters.
The Washington DC based company that created Open Atrium, Development Seed, has blogged about the news (with a few screenshots) here: http://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/sep/08/custom-open-atrium-intranet-... >> READ MORE
Dries Buytaert: The State of Drupal
Blogged by Steve Parks on Wednesday, 3 September 2009
DrupalCon Paris is underway now, with Dries Buytaert cutting a Cat5 cable instead of a ribbon to officially open proceedings.
He's now speaking in his role as the project founder and lead about the 'state of drupal'.
And first, the subject of the code freeze for Drupal 7 - he's describing the waves of drupal development work, and how it builds up towards code freeze into a patch frenzy - and how developers complain.
He shows a quote:
Paul Saffo: "People overestimate short-term benefits of innovation, but under-estimate long term benefits". >> READ MORE
YCombinator StartUp Challenge: The Future of Journalism
Blogged by Steve Parks on Monday, 1 August 2009
How can the media can best evolve for the web? What is going to replace newspapers online? How can content sites make money?
The answers to these questions are highly valued at the moment. Rupert Murdoch believes he can just put content behind a subscription pay wall and people will be happy to pay for it rather than get it free from other sites.
Some sites (like TechCrunch that the link below goes to) make money from advertising and events while giving the content away free.
But many sites make no money at all. >> READ MORE
The Social Media Revolution
Blogged by Steve Parks on Monday, 1 August 2009
Here's some food for thought about the power and growth of social media.
Liveblog: Entrepreneur Country Conference
Blogged by Steve Parks on Thursday, 4 June 2009
I liveblogged the Entrepreneur Country event yesterday.
The original, as-it-happened liveblog can be found here: http://www.steveparks.co.uk/liveblogging_entrepreneur_country_event
Here's the roundup of the day... >> READ MORE
Liveblog: Techcrunch Geek n Rolla Event 5
Blogged by Steve Parks on Wednesday, 3 April 2009
This is the last in my series of blog posts writing up the Techcrunch Geek n Rolla tech-entrepreneurship event...
15:53 Reshma Sohoni, CEO, Seedcamp - Recession Business Models for Tech Startups
Seedcamp is a great organisation helping very early stage companies get some seed funding, some expertise and advice, and share their experiences. She's going to give some of that experience now. >> READ MORE
