[EdLUG] March Update

[Edinburgh Linux Users Group]

This is a slightly difficult one because this is a devolved matter and
these are general elections, but: The Scottish Identity Database
https://scotland.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/stop-scottish-id-database
https://scotland.openrightsgroup.org/policy/2015/02/19/the-scottish-national-id-database-your-questions-answered/
http://scotland.openrightsgroup.org/

I'd generally urge you all to join ORG who do a great job fighting digital
issues. They are about to hire their first member of staff based in
Scotland - great for putting more focus on devolved matters.


This isn't particularly Linux themed (except for most of them being hosted
on Linux) but there are some great election tech projects (Disclaimer, I'm
involved on one, I'm sure you can guess which):
https://democracyclub.org.uk/ https://yournextmp.com/
http://meetyournextmp.com/ http://cv.democracyclub.org.uk/
https://electionleaflets.org/

If you want, I'm happy to come and do a wee talk on Open Data and Open
Source civic tech around the elections. With Poplus, mySociety are trying
to make it easy for democracy websites from one country to move to others
which is interesting to.

James






On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <
edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> We are now at the point where we can open up space on the website to
> anyone who wants to create a page for a project they are working on. We can
> also give logins to anyone who wants to submit articles or contribute to
> the blog. Please email webmaster at edlug.org.uk if you want to request a
> login.  We also have a page on Facebook and a community on Google+.  We
> also have a twitter account (@EdinburghLUG) and a on LinkedIn.  If you use
> any of these forums it would be great if people would join and use them to
> help circulate information.
>
> I've had a few messages from people who have had difficulty in sending
> posts to the mailing list.  To ensure posts get through please make sure
> you are using the email that you are subscribed with and send posts to
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> At the meeting on Thursday it was suggested that we register the lug.scot
> domain and some donations were made to cover the initial cost and this has
> been done.
>
> Also with the election coming up I'm wondering if there are any policies
> areas related to technology/data where we would, as a group, want to
> question the various parties. Please get in touch if you have any
> suggestions for questions.
>
> Regards
>
> Jan
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