Daily Archives: Monday, August 24, 2015

  • Tidy BS5 – homage to Rio sweeper: the trailer

    Steve WoodsBristol, Politics

    A damp Sunday yesterday saw Make Sunday Special come to Easton’s Stapleton Road.

    The Tidy BS5 crew were there with an information stall inside Easton Leisure Centre with a group of young volunteers giving out advice on how to make the most of the city council’s recycling services, ordering new recycling bins and the like.

    Meanwhile the activists had arranged to do a bit of street theatre. Having persuaded a member of Bristol Samba to get dressed up in a customised Bristol Waste uniform and themselves armed with placards, we set off towards the main stage, filming as we went…

    … ending up storming the main stage!

    Tidy BS5's sweeper on stage at Make Sunday Special
    Tidy BS5’s sweeper on stage at Make Sunday Special

    The final edited video will be posted on YouTube in the near future, so keep your eyes peeled. 🙂

  • Whitehall’s latest open standards consultations

    Steve WoodsOpen Standards, Politics, Tech

    The British government has announced it is now consulting and seeking comments on its latest open standards proposals.

    The standards on which it is inviting comments are:

    Exchange of location point information
    An open standard for the exchange of location information, allowing coordinates to be translated between systems.

    Exchange of property / place address information
    A proposed standard to define and exchange address information between government departments. This is not about changing your postal address, but it could change the way government records information about your location.

    Publishing vacancies online
    A standard to help citizens searching for government jobs and apprenticeships.

    Once the comment period closes, proposals will be assessed by a panel composed of civil servants and industry specialists, which will decide whether the proposal should go forward for consideration by the Open Standards Board. The Open Standards Board will then make a recommendation about the standard’s adoption across government.