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I am delighted to announce that we will be holding a virtual barcamp fringe event on Friday 24th July for all those people who can’t make our main event.

To give us some idea of the numbers coming we have tickets available on Eventbrite, so go grab yourself one!

Our main avenue is the event Friendfeed account here: http://friendfeed.com/barcamptransparency

We have prepared three virtual rooms for you to discuss issues related to:

  1. Open government – http://friendfeed.com/ff-bct09opengoverment
  2. Cyber-activism – http://friendfeed.com/ff-bct09cyberactivism
  3. Social media ethics – http://friendfeed.com/ff-bct09socialmediaethics

Later this week we will be releasing the first batch of tickets for the main event using the same system, more to follow so watch this space!

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I am absolutely delighted to be able to announce that I have managed to confirm the venue for Barcamp Transparency. Barcamp Transparency will be held at the Oxford University Club on the 26th July!

This is a fabulous venue (the same one as Barcamp Apache Oxford), directions and other details can be found on our website.

I am also delighted to announce that Google has agreed to be the main sponsor for the event and will be covering the cost of the venue for us! Big thanks to all at Google and our other sponsors for making this event possible!

See you there on the 26th July!


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Today I spent a productive and thoroughly enjoyable day at Oxford Geek Jam.

This was a techy event organised by @mattythorne and @loleg at the Jam Factory in Oxford bringing together hackers, ideas people and general interested populous to bash out some ideas and start hacking on some projects.

The group split into two main camps based around a couple of ideas; Oleg wanted to hack on a visual wiki representation, and my off the cuff idea which I’ve been playing on for a little while – the Stalk-O-Matic.

Stalk-O-Matic is a little data mining toy I have had in skunk for a while which uses the Google Social Graph api to aggregate much of the public information available on the internet about you into an easily explorable form. This is done for the purposes of education and illustrates just how public private information is – something that I might talk about at Barcamp Transparency.

Off the back of the Geek Jam I have open sourced the code and have started a Google Code project which I’d be interested in seeing people get involved in – usual “It was a private hack made public so is a total mess” disclaimer applies!

Anyway, I found today both enjoyable and thoroughly useful. I hope that there will be many more events like this in Oxford!