Visiting Tower Hamlets today to talk about seeding a sustainable community enterprise while increasing participation and technology access using wireless technologies. More to post on this later.

early last week I met with two people from Brent Council Environment & Culture Department to discuss the Civic Reporter ideas and application framework that Comwifinet have been working on. A great opportunity to discuss how open accessible data could further develop participation in the up keep of the Borough. Brent Council considering working with a Made In Brent technology organisation and mobile technologies. Brent Council entertaining the public publishing daily status and performance information online....

The background to all this. Comwifinet had prototyped the Civic Reporter framework which is inspired by other innovative mobile technology projects, such as that implemented by Lewisham and the mySociety ‘Broken Civic Infrastructure’ idea. These similar initiatives all start from the question ‘Would putting pictures of abandoned cars on a map on the internet help people to think again about their role in maintaining a tidy Borough? [The background to all this....

I have been working with Jon solving some file and print puzzles for the network that he manages. The network has Windows XP and Apple OS X clients and provides services from a Suse server running OpenLDAP for authentication and Samba for file and print. The little puzzle we have been working on has been incorporating the Apple OS X machines into the authenticated file and print network. Connecting the eMacs to the wider network would provide more services to the users of the machines and give Jon less management and security headaches over the current local users / afp-island that the machines currently live in....

I just wanted to say a quick hello to the frequent visitors out there (you know who you are). Thanks for popping by, reading this site and (hopefully) providing reciprocal links back here. leave a comment, say hello back.