olizilla

The tool of imagination is looking at the two options on the table and saying:
No! There are 10 more!

The next step will require great humility, since we are now so prone to confuse great building projects with great social achievements. We will have to admit that it is beyond the scope of anyone's imagination to create community.
We must learn to cherish the communities we have, they are hard to come by.

Blog

Why use Open Standards for healthcare records So you wanna procure some software? Adopting X-Road in the UK Reducing the time-tax of government services through digital interoperability A blueprint for modern digital government The gov.uk app, the APIs, and the operating environment All the priority reforms from "a blueprint for modern digital government" For those that like their data dense Unicode Visual memory across the Basic Multilingual Plane Rainbow Sketching with animated SVGs Older posts... from a more or less civilised age

Work

Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose What should the state do? IPFS - A content-addressed p2p internet What if you could co-host websites and data you care about? TABLEFLIP - a web-dev co-op Building apps, websites, robots, and community!

Play

Suena Bien Soundsystem Making speakers. Playing music. Partying together. Open Source Software - olizilla on github Where I make things I want to see in the world. Nodebots of London A workshop meetup where we learn how to robot with JavaScript together. Meteor London A show'n'tell for designers and devs building real-time web-apps. West Norwood Feast I helped start a street party in 2011. Still partying today!