Teacamps are…

....regular meetups of gov/non gov digerati in a cafe over a cup of tea. Teacamps are informal and you can just turn up. Next teacamps are:

16 May: #agiletea with @dafyddbach and @simoneverest
6 Jun: #goodlaw #teacamp @johnlsheridan speaking
4 Jul /1 Aug / 5 Sep / 3 Oct / 7 Nov / 5 Dec: teacamp original

Thurs 16 May – agiletea

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May 082013
 
Agile growing pains
Simon Everest and Dai Vaughan from the Transformation team at GDS will be talking about their experiences introducing agile working practises into more traditional environments.
Simon’s a proposition manager who’s working with the Rural Payments Agency to help them digitise farm payments. Dai’s a technical architect working with DVLA to transform their services.

Time and place

  • 16 May – just come along, no need to book
  • Cafe Zest, 4pm – 6pm at 2nd floor House of Fraser, 101 Victoria St London

Contact info

@agiletea, samantha.helliar@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk, alexandria.jackson@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk

 Posted by alexjackson at 11:29 am

Thu 2 May: #openpolicy #teacamp

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Apr 262013
 

Thu 2 May 4pm – 6pm  #openpolicy #teacamp

Cafe Zest, 2nd floor, House of Fraser, Victoria St, London, SW1E

Teacamp this month is on open policy making in government and we have a great panel of speakers from DemSoc, government and a PhD student. They are:

Anthony Zacharzewski @demsoc
Anthony is the chief executive of Demsoc, a non-partisan membership organisation for democracy, participation and new ways of doing government.

Ade Adewunmi @Adewunmi
Ade works in the digital policy team at Government Digital Service and is looking at open policy making on government.

David Thorpe @thorpesque
Deputy Director Digital Policy at GDS/CO, David is exploring ways to integrate digital tools and design-thinking into the policy process to make it more agile, open, resilient and pragmatic to address the changing environment.

Hannah Rutter @OpenPolicyUK
Hannah works in the Cabinet Office and has recently joined the ‘Open Policy Making’ team, after a few years in different aspects of public service reform. She has previously worked in the Department of Health and charity sector.

Alice Newton @aliceenewton
Alice is the lead on digital strategy at the Ministry of Justice, currently looking at supporting policy teams with digital tools and techniques

Mary Houston @mh3g09
Mary is studying for a PhD in social policy at University of Southampton. The PhD is focusing on role of civil servants in democratic digital engagement in policy making. She also works part time as a news planner in the Department for Communities and Local Government.

 

How does teacamp work?

If you want to come to teacamp, just turn up on the day, it is open to everyone. It is in the corner of the cafe and very informal and friendly. If you are coming for the first time or on your own, ask for Mark or Jane and we will introduce you to some teacampers.

4pm – 4.30pm : people arrive, have a chat and a cup of tea
4.30 – 4.40pm:  Introductions and you can plug any events etc
4.40 – 5.10pm: panel members will each give 5 minute update on their work
5.10 – 6pm:  Q&A, group discussion
6pm: #beercamp in nearest pub, often led by @baskers…

 

Contact info


@teacamplondon jane.oloughlin@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk

@maakusan mark.smitham@gcloud.cabinet-office.gov.uk

 Posted by Jane O'Loughlin at 5:09 pm  Tagged with: , ,

Thu 11 April – #digitalwomen @thewomensroomuk

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Mar 092013
 

Thu 11 April 2013 #teacamp  #digitalwomen @thewomensroomuk

Cafe Zest, 2nd floor, House of Fraser, Victoria St, London, SW1E

Thu 11 April 4pm – 6pm

What can we do to promote and support women in digital?  Come and join the discussion with @thewomensroomuk and some inspiring women in digital and men who support women in digital.  This teacamp follows on from the #digitalwomen session at UKGovcamp 2013 - see @Puffles2010 twitter list from the session and a similar session at #CommsCamp13

Caroline Criado-Perez will tell us about theWomensRoom.org.uk @thewomensroomuk, she says that ”three-quarters of the media’s ‘experts’ are men. A Radio 4 spokesperson claims that this is because they have to reflect the reality that there just aren’t that many women experts around. This website is about proving them wrong.”

The discussion will include  @AineMcGuire, @leisa, @lily_dart, @harrym, @Puffles2010, and @ClareMoriarty Director General at Department for Transport,

If you want to come to teacamp it is open to everyone, just register on Eventbrite . It is in the corner of the cafe and very informal and friendly. If you are coming for the first time or on your own, ask for Mark or Jane and we will introduce you to some teacampers.

4pm – 4.30pm : people arrive, have a chat and a cup of tea

4.30 – 4.45pm:  Caroline from @thewomensroomuk will tell us about theWomensRoom.org.uk

5.00 – 5.15pm: panel members will share stories

5.15 – 6pm:  Breakout group discussion, feedback and then Q&A with everyone

6pm: #beercamp in nearest pub, often led by @baskers…

Contact info
@teacamplondon jane.oloughlin@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk
@maakusan mark.smitham@gcloud.cabinet-office.gov.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 Posted by Jane O'Loughlin at 11:55 am  Tagged with: , , , ,

Thurs 21 March – agiletea

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Feb 262013
 
The dark side of agile
Mazz Mosley is the tech lead for the platform team at GDS working on the core components of GOV.UK. She’ll be talking about the sharks that lurk beneath agile waters, and how we deal with them when they bite.

Time and place

  • 21 March – just come along, no need to book
  • Cafe Zest, 4pm – 6pm at 2nd floor House of Fraser, 101 Victoria St London SW1E 6QX

Contact info

@agiletea, samantha.helliar@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk, alexandria.jackson@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk

 Posted by alexjackson at 11:31 am

Thu 7 Mar teacamp – Digital Scotland

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Feb 082013
 

teacamp: Digital Scotland

Cafe Zest, 2nd floor, House of Fraser, Victoria St, London, SW1E 6QX

Thu 7 March 4pm – 6pm

Lesley Thomson  from the Scottish Government is going to come and talk about what is happening digitally across the public sector in Scotland.  Lesley as she describes herself, is mashing up librarianship, digital government communications, social media, information, literacy and knowledge management. She is a keen advocate of #teacampScotland and #ScotGovCamp.  Find out more on Lesley’s blog and follow her on @lelil

If you want to come to teacamp, just turn up at Cafe Zest from 4pm on the day, you don’t need to book a place in advance and it is open to everyone. It is in the corner of the cafe and very informal and friendly. If you are coming for the first time or on your own, ask for Mark or Jane and we will introduce you to some teacampers.

4pm – 4.30pm : people arrive, have a chat and a cup of tea
4.30 – 4.45pm: Lesley will talk to us
4.45pm – 6pm: discussion with everyone, and chance for other people to talk about work they are doing

6pm: sometimes there is #beercamp in nearest pub, often led by @baskers…

Contact info
@teacamplondon jane.oloughlin@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk
@maakusan mark.smitham@gcloud.cabinet-office.gov.uk

 Posted by Jane O'Loughlin at 6:07 pm  Tagged with: , , , ,

Thu 7 Feb teacamp #opendata #citydata

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Jan 302013
 

Thu 7 Feb 4pm – 6pm:  teacamp #opendata  #citydata

Imperial College London,  Queen’s Tower Room, Ground floor,  Sherfield Building, Imperial College Road SW7 2AZ London

 

What you said / captured about this teacamp

Ross Atkin’s amazingly creative sketchnotes  @RossAtkin

@Puffles2010′s blog post

The discussion

The Digital Economy Labs team shared their work around city data and how it can be used to transform services and would like feedback and discussion from the open data community and government. Digital Economy Labs is a series of research programmes at Imperial College London, which investigate various aspects of the digital economy and how these can enable new technical and business opportunities.

Example data streams include

• transport – Transport for London

• environment – light, air quality, Met Office, Ordinance Survey

• crime

• substance abuse

• telecoms providers

• building management data

 

The discussion panel included

  • Dr Catherine Mulligan  @API_Economics -  a research fellow at Imperial College and working on the Digital City Exchange project
  • Dr Jenny O’Connor  @JennyOC - a sociologist working on the Digital City Exchange project. her research covers citizen engagement, technology development and adoption, data ownership, and the human aspects of privacy and security in relation to various categories of use.
  • Dr Koen van Dam -  a research associate at Imperial College working on the Digital City Exchange project. His contributions focus on developing an agent-based model of city systems based on spatial and temporal data from multiple sectors.
  • Dr David Boyle - a research fellow at Imperial College will talk about City data and the sensing landscape.
  • James Smith - @floppy a developer at the UK Open Data Institute and lead organiser for @cleanwebuk

 

Register to attend on eventbrite

CLOSED

If you would like more information:

 

How to get there

  • Go to South Kensington Tube, Imperial College exit
  • Come out of tube and turn left onto Exhibition Road
  • Turn immediately left onto Imperial College Road
  • Walk about 200m to Queen’s Lawn on the right hand side of the road
  • There is a beautiful old tower, Queen’s Tower in the middle of Queen’s Lawn you can’t miss it
  • The Sherfield building is diagonally opposite you on the corner of Queen’s Lawn.
  • Go into the building, go immediately right into to the Queen’s Tower Room
  • And you will find opendata teacamp and a nice cup of tea
 Posted by Jane O'Loughlin at 1:31 pm

Thurs 10 Jan teacamp – @lesteph #UKGC13 + @mazi social media first aid

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Dec 292012
 

@lesteph  UK GovCamp13 + @mazi social media first aid

Cafe Zest, 2nd floor, House of Fraser, Victoria St, London, SW1E 6QX

Steph Gray @lesteph will talk about UK GovCamp 2013 #UKGC13  http://ukgc13.eventbrite.com/  http://www.helpfultechnology.com/helpful-blog/

Maz Nadjm @mazi @somazi will talk about his new social media first aid which he will share with everyone  http://www.somazi.com/blog/
4pm – 6pm Thu 10 Jan – just turn up, no need to book


Just turn up at Cafe Zest from 4pm on the day, you don’t need to book a place in advance and it is open to everyone. It is in the corner of the cafe and very informal and friendly. If you are coming for the first time or on your own, ask for Mark or Jane and we will introduce you to some teacampers.

4pm – 4.30pm : people arrive, have a chat and a cup of tea
4.30 – 4.45pm: Steph will talk about UK GovCamp 13
4.45pm – 5pm: Maz will talk about his social media first aid kit

5pm – 6pm: discussion with everyone, and chance for other people to talk about work they are doing

6pm: sometimes there is #beercamp in nearest pub, often led by @baskers…

Contact info
@teacamplondon jane.oloughlin@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk
@maakusan mark.smitham@gcloud.cabinet-office.gov.uk

 Posted by Jane O'Loughlin at 6:54 pm

Thurs 17 Jan – agiletea

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Dec 072012
 

Agile portfolio managmement

Jamie Arnold (@itsallgonewrong), Programme Manager at GDS, will talk about how GDS is scaling up its agile approach to projects to manage the whole portfolio of projects. Jamie will talk about the techniques and methods he’s using.

Time and place

  • 17 January – just come along, no need to book
  • Cafe Zest, 4pm – 6pm at 2nd floor House of Fraser, 101 Victoria St London SW1E 6QX

Contact info

@agiletea, samantha.helliar@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk, alexandria.jackson@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk

 Posted by alexjackson at 2:29 pm

Thurs 6 Dec – teacamp

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Nov 302012
 

Open Standards Strategy and what it means for hack days like RS Parliament: 2012.

Teacamp Thu 6th December, 4pm – 6pm

Mark Smitham @maakusan from G-Cloud recently led a team to win ‘Best In Show’ at the Rewired State: Parliament 2012 design & hack event.  Before his new post on G-Cloud, Mark was working within government departments guiding development of Open Standards Strategy.   He will reflect on this experience and what it means for hack days; actions that Parliament & Government could take to improve the innovative output from hack days.  Mark will talk about:

  • Rewired State: Parliament 2012 #rsparly2012
    • the data, the hacks the teams built and why
  • Open Standards Strategy and what this means for hack days like #rsparly2012
    • open data, open standards, open source, and open market

Mark says:

“We produced ChaMPion in response to growing political disengagement; turnout at this month’s elections was at a peacetime low.  Coverage in Parliament on TV is generally focussed on adversarial politics, in particular PMQs, leaving people confused about what MPs actually do all day – aside from sit back and claim their expenses!

There is a great deal of information out there already that can help provide greater clarity on the work of Parliament and Government.  The Open Standards Strategy is useful guidance that will enable that information to be provided in 4 ways, which will improve the innovations produced at hack days.”

Time and place

4pm – 6pm Thu 6 Dec – just turn up, no need to book

Cafe Zest, 2nd floor, House of Fraser, Victoria St, London, SW1E 6QX

Just turn up at Cafe Zest from 4pm on the day, you don’t need to book a place in advance and it is open to everyone. It is in the corner of the cafe and very informal and friendly.  If you are coming for the first time or on your own, ask for Mark Smitham and we will introduce you to some teacampers.

  • 4pm – 4.30pm : people arrive, have a chat and a cup of tea
  • 4.30 – 4.45pm:  Mark will do intro to discussion
  • 4.45pm – 6pm: discussion with everyone, and chance for other people to talk about work they are doing
  • 6pm: sometimes there is #beercamp in nearest pub, often led by @baskers…

Contact info

@teacamplondon   jane.oloughlin@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk

@maakusan    mark.smitham@gcloud.cabinet-office.gov.uk

 Posted by alexjackson at 4:04 pm

Wednesday 5 Dec – Internal Comms and Engagement Teacamp

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Nov 272012
 

Internal Comms and Engagement Teacamp is back after a break. The next one takes place Wednesday, 5th December. Their is not set topic for this gathering, it’s open to talk about anything and everything of interest around internal comms and employee engagement.

It’s open to all Internal Communications practitioners , whatever your specialism or industry, and those working around employee engagement. ICEteacamp takes place at Cafe Zest on the 2nd floor of House of Fraser in Victoria.If you can’t make it, follow the action on the #iceteacamp hashtag

Date and place:

  • Cafe Zest 2nd floor House of Fraser  101 Victoria St London SW1E 6QX
  • Wed 5 December, 4pm – 6pm
  • Contact: @annkempster #iceteacamp
 Posted by ann at 1:20 pm
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