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	<description>Tales from the frontline of Free Software &#38; Social Enterprise</description>
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		<title>Beware the Walled Garden</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2011/04/beware-the-walled-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s ShropCamp event was a great success, attracting a diverse crowd of people wanting to work with Open Data and local government. In particular it brought in a far greater crowd of non-technical people than these events generally attract.
This is good news, of course - but it did mean a lot less awareness of data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Kids to Code</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2011/04/teaching-kids-to-code/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of chats recently - at North Staffordshire GeekUp and elsewhere - have turned to programmer education. My particular input to the conversation, reflected the same concerns I express in discussion over the male:female imbalance in Free Software projects, namely we need to enthuse people about IT early on.
In short, people are being turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Opiate of the Voluntary Sector?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/11/the-opiate-of-the-voluntary-sector/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/11/the-opiate-of-the-voluntary-sector/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To MadLab, yesterday, for the Together Works AGM. Together Works is the social enterprise network for Greater Manchester, and the AGM was a chance to network, then take part in a debate on the future of Social Enterprise in the current climate of cuts.
The panel included Social Entrepreneur Dave Dawes, who started with a strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still looking&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/06/424/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/06/424/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to put up another collaboration post soon, as I&#8217;m having a lot of trouble finding people to help out on various projects. However Dilbert may have encapsulated the problem&#8230;

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		<title>The Right Choice for the Job?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/04/the-right-choice-for-the-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[drupal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back from giving my new &#8220;Free Software in the UK Voluntary Sector, and why you should care&#8221; talk to Manchester Free Software Group. A small audience, but a nice rambling debate over many fields, and good real ale at the Lass, so all-in-all a good evening.
Before travelling up to Manchester I spent a day not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software Freedom: Big, Green &amp; Fair</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/03/software-freedom-big-green-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday saw the annual Chorlton Big Green Festival, one of the country&#8217;s largest Green Fairs, and this year blessed with a stall from Manchester Free Software (MFS).
Those of us volunteering to staff the MFS Stall had a great time - not just enjoying the vegan food and drink of the Fair, and catching up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So what am I up to?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/so-what-am-i-up-to/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/so-what-am-i-up-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At recent events, when I meet new people, we naturally ask each other &#8220;What do you do?&#8221;. I&#8217;m failing quite badly at summarising my activities, so thought I&#8217;d briefly list current projects here, for reference:

Gaia University - IT strategy, project management, &#38; SysAdmin, in a programme to gradually upgrade every online aspect of this international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT Happens</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/it-happens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/it-happens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m travelling back from the Connecting 2.0 Communities event held this afternoon and evening at Madlab, in Manchester&#8217;s Northern Quarter. An MDDA-sponsored event to give technical and social media advice to community groups. I was arm-twisted into giving a short talk, so rapidly prepared an item on Social Media tactics and strategy culled from our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun, and a bit deviant</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/fun-and-a-bit-deviant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/fun-and-a-bit-deviant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FeedingManchester #3
Just back from Feeding Manchester #3, an attempt to co-ordinate everyone in the business of sustainable food production in the city, and keep the city council and its ambitious plans for local food on track. Although I do a bit of sustainable and community IT in Hulme, and social media training in the Northern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Someone wrong on the Internet?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/someone-wrong-on-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/someone-wrong-on-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Michael Sparks, on the GeekUp list, I was recently reminded of this wonderful XKCD cartoon.

Not only did it make me smile, but it reminded me that &#8220;now&#8221; is always a good time to stop in an argument on an e-mail list, thus freeing up no end of useful time :-)
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