spread the web opentech 2009
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How can geeky people with simple or advanced web skills give their time to help others in a more discriminating way than mere serendipity.How can we match wants and needs more effectviely? #opentech 2009TRANSCRIPT
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Opentech 2009
Spread the web
Fran Sainsbury and William Perrin
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The Problem
• People we like are being ripped off
• With rubbish, expensive inflexible websites
• Why don’t they do it themselves?
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Seven hours project management and testing to embed a YouTube video on flat low traffic html site
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People lack confidence and basic skills
• Think its technical and complicated
• People often literally afraid of the web
• They had a go many years ago
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Inspiration
Simple sites
Wordpress or
on Wordpress.com
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Next - revamp this local school site
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How this could be spread
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Despite
The pressures of earning a living
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Opentech posters
• The people who need this most aren’t here today
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• Our stuff is simple because we are• Opentech people have far more talent• Can do more powerful things
Opentech
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Put aside 100 hours
• “Every time a person takes into their own hands the tools of production…They are able not just to consume, but to produce, to invent culture”
• Matt Webb
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Can we match want with need?
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Is something like this the answer?
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America exports their geeks