Tech for Good UK
Organisers Network
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A network for anyone running a Tech for Good community group in the UK.
• Intro Presentation - Find out where we started and why
(voluntary) principles that may be useful for you to help to define your activities.
techforgoodorganisers.uk/slack
email [email protected] to join
techforgoodorganisers.uk/whatsapp
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Td5iaWkfdTwbYU_ZxkeEGcMSiMofsQts?usp=sharing
Events for the network of organisers - not events put on by groups for their members.[a][b][c][d][e][f][g][h][i][j][k][l][m][n][o][p][q][r]
End of Jan sometime Network Updates (“Community Squad”)
📆 coming soon
📆 https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAud-itpzMqH9SvlH2M-v5SP4NJ9GXxhmub
📆 https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrcOisrTkpE9A2NGZcBeLsFJGKzyvqaSu3
📆 https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvc-6oqT4oGt2DxR-91w8ZZXPiWiASbgx3
Co-design session to design a local-national tech for good network. Slides, Jamboard.
Attendees: TfGSW (Annie, Ed Howarth, Eriol), TfGLive(Bex, Harriet, Alina, Marie), DfG (Maddie, Barrie), TfGLondon (Ellie), TfGG (Dama), TfGB (David S), TfGNE (David V), CC (Arielle), NSL (Kate), NH (Ed S)
📆 https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkcu2urTMrG9MiLcrtIZWuN6yfYj_fMi-t
https://jamboard.google.com/d/1Qta_8RUC8zq_6BXYCU0b0sxkZd89PAZC8qzWy7UqqGw/viewer?f=9
📆 https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEof--hqjItH9cCPZ__XUXD3DfY6ymVjY4P
📆 https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ucO-vqj0rHNW-kS-r3p8F24EoSWjou_eb
We tend to work in Slack, that’s the best place to input if you want to get involved.
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If you organise a UK Tech for Good type community, add yourself to the list!
Main contact: Bex Rae-Evans
🦄 Organiser www.techforgood.live
💼 Director wearereply.com
🏠 Manchester
Other techforgood.live organisers
Sacha [email protected] (Newsletter/ blogging)
Harriet [email protected] (Volunteers)
Fay [email protected] (Social Media)
Jonny [email protected] (Podcast/ brand)
Greg [email protected] (podcast and finance stuff)
Alina [email protected] (research, blogging and newsletter stuff)
Marie Wilson [email protected] (Connection with SalfordCVS and 10GM)
Hera, Sophie, Tom, Harry, Paul, Mille, Sam (Podcast contributors)
Dama Sathianathan
Dama Sathianathan & Ellie Hale
💼 Bethnal Green Ventures & CAST
📧 [email protected] / [email protected]
Edward Saperia
💼 Dean Newspeak House
🏠 London
🐦 @edsaperia / @nwspk
Sidd Bannerjee
💼 DCMS
Kate White
💼 Superhighways
🐦
Jonathan Chevallier
💼 CEO Charity Digital
Marc Sloan
Sandra Pallier
💼 Designer at Microsoft
Ian Watt
🏠 Aberdeen
🐦 @watty62
Barry O’Kane
Jane Griffin
💼 AND Digital
Maddie Stark
💼 SCVO
Dwayne Pascal, Milosz Falinski
David Scurr
Ellie Hale
🐦 @eg_hale
Bryan Rossi-Anderson
🏠 Brighton
David Van Der Velde
💼 Land Digital
🏠
🏠 Newcastle upon Tyne
🐦
Annie Legge
🦄 Tech4Good South West and techforgoodsw.org.uk
🏠 Bath
Ed Howarth
🦄 Tech4Good South West and techforgoodsw.org.uk
🏠 Bristol
Helen Woodcock
🦄 Tech4Good South West and techforgoodsw.org.uk
🏠 Bristol
Eriol Fox (they/them)
🦄 Tech4Good South West and techforgoodsw.org.uk
💼 Open Food Network, Open Source Design & Newcastle Uni PhD
🏠 Bristol
Other organisers
Maria Lenoard, Tech4Good South West coordinator
Rebecca Tregenna
🏠 Exeter
Michael McAndrew
🏠 Exeter
Pauline Roche
🏠 Birmingham
🦄 This Is Our Brum and Birmingham Tech Week
🏠 Birmingham
🦄 community organiser ProMo-Cymru in Wales
🏠 Cardiff
Community of practice (Youth) as well as being location based
Chris Thorpe
Chris Ashworth
Clara
Other people who might like to join!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewmoorut/
🐦 @CIACIC1
https://techforgood.global/tech-for-good-directory
https://airtable.com/shrJzniVbxdWcVAd8/tblI7sTP2cnHgh8zD/viwD6afr3lc6X7bFM
https://www.meetup.com/Product-For-Good/
https://matrix.org/open-tech-will-save-us/
https://www.meetup.com/One-Digital-Meetup/
https://discuss.opengovernment.org.uk
http://www.meetup.com/Journocoders
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SoftwareTechEALondon
https://www.meetup.com/EdTech-Developers-Meetup
https://localgovdigital.slack.com/
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/localgov-digital-10479776496
https://www.meetup.com/London-Open-Data-Missions/[u]
https://www.meetup.com/London-Gov-Design-Meetup/
https://www.meetup.com/fintech-for-good
https://www.meetup.com/Humane-Tech-London/[v]
https://actbuildchange.com
https://www.meetup.com/AI-Ethics-London
https://www.meetup.com/London-ICT4D/
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-uk
https://www.meetup.com/medtechlondon/
https://www.meetup.com/Net2Camb/
💻 meetup.com/Women-Hack-For-Non-Profits
🐦 @WHFNP
💻 wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Events
Open Data Camp
💻 https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-pzvZdizC/
http://fairsay.com/networks/ecampaigning-forum
[a]where can we find/post events that groups put on for members?
[b]What's the user story for that?
[c]We could create a register of calendars for each group, perhaps.
[d]As an organiser when I am holding an event on x TfG theme I want to make it visible so that I can attract relevant participants
[e]As a charity worker when I want to learn about digital I need to be able to find relevant events wherever they are in the country
[f]Right, but neither charity workers nor relevant participants will be using this forum.
[g]For the most part, we won't be attending each others' events.
[h]Hey, so I founded and ran https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/ for 7 years before passing it on, and I can tell you getting a good list of events is really hard work.
But I also think there are good use cases to getting this kind of data in an open list that can be reused. There were good reasons before everything went virtual, and now that it has there may be even more. Happy to discuss (If there's any chance you could hold a co-design session when I'm not at work that would be great. I just joined your email list, if I could be approved?).
If you want to do this, I'd strongly suggest that this website NOT try to list individual events. As Edward's second comment says, I'd instead strongly suggest having a section where each group lists an Open Data event feed somewhere. This is much more likely to be kept up to date.
It also has the side affect of really encouraging all groups to make sure they produce an Open Data feed somewhere! I'd recommend iCAL - regular attendees can import this straight into their personal calendars.
In fact, I'm going to sit down now and start trying to add some of these groups to Open Tech Calendar - it has a feature where you can add them to a custom list, which you can find at https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/curatedlist/19
[i]cheers James and Ed. maybe its not part of this platform, but a place where we share events with one another would be good so we can share with wider communities.
In the North East, a guy called James Rutherford runs tech diary to aggregate all the tech meetups.
https://www.techdiary.co.uk/ne
Id love to see something like this for all TfG events, but I dont know how much work is involved or how it would be resourced.
James if you think its worth a chat then let me know.
[j][META I didn't get an email about this reply, is there some option that is turned off?]
I'm happy to chat; hello at jmbtechnology.co.uk will get me.
But no surprise; my suggestion would be all events should have an Open Data feed. Then Open Tech Calendar, Tech Diary NE, and whoever else wants can pull them all together.
This can be as simple as a public Google Calendar; the key point is they commit to keeping it up to date. An important note; meetup.com does NOT count as Open Data as you need a paid account to get an API key these days.
[k]+1 @[email protected], open calendar feeds for each group would be ideal.
[l]I've added as much Open Data as I can find to https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/curatedlist/19 . There aren't many events partly because there isn't much open data, but also honestly most groups don't seem to have any future events scheduled.
[m]I just caught up with this thread - looks like a great resource - is there anything we can do to make events more open? Can create a small guide and put it in the google drive?
[n]Cheers for the heads up- Bexs - I didnt get notifications either. Missed all these.
[o]Hey - I'm up for helping with a guide. I actually wrote up https://www.opencommunitydata.org/2020/11/20/publishing-your-events-google-calendar.html recently. You can email me - happy to chat.
Key point I think to emphasise: creating it is one thing, making sure it is kept up to date is the real problem.
(For instance a common problem is people set a pattern like "4th Wed of the month" then one year that falls on Christmas Day and they don't come back to update their feed saying it's actually not happening on that day.)
For that reason, if your current ticketing provider / event lister can provide an Open Data stream in some way that should probably be the first choice.
[p]Is it worth continuing this conversation in the slack? Just so everyone else can see/ contribute?
[q]I did ask for an invite to Slack but haven't got a reply - do add me at this email address? @[email protected] Thanks
[r]Oops, invite sent!
[s]CAST build tech for good near you that we could build on? https://tech-for-good-near-you.herokuapp.com
[t]looks great. could it be coordinators role to nudge community leads for content?
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