Month: November 2007

BCSE, British Council for School Environments, Industry Awards 2008

Hal

It is a great honour to have been asked to help evaluate the entries for the first BCSE Industry Awards and on Friday I received a pack of entries from three categories: Innovative design for Primary Schools, Innovative Design for Secondary Schools and Best Architect. I have spent the weekend reading these and am confident that the formal evaluation day (Tuesday 27th) will be extremely difficult. The quality of the entries appears to be very high indeed and choosing the top entries will be no easy task.

It speaks volumes about the quality of the designs for new schools around the country, and the opportunities that thousands of children are getting now that they weren’t getting before. I’m delighted to be involved in BSF work throughout the country and once again it has been emphasised to me just how important this work actually is.

I can’t say which of the entries will go forward to the final evaluations, of course, but I can comfortably say that innovation is thriving!

Cleveratom gains a new director

Hal

It is a great pleasure to welcome Nick Platts to the board at Cleveratom. Nick is a renowned technical expert who specialises in mobile applications. His expertise will complete the senior team of the company and ensure there is a greater depth to the technical development side of Cleveratom.

Nick has recently left WeComm in London, where he has been working on several exciting pieces of work. Most recently, Nick was part of the team that built the functionality that lets you program your Sky box using your mobile phone.

Prior to this Nick was regularly found haunting the centre of Ultralab where he worked on some equally ground breaking applications, one of which was the delightful ‘JellyOS’ – a piece of community software that to this day has not been replicated but that offers significant improvements on the functionality of many commercial offerings. Sadly, JellyOS was shelved as funding ceased, but remains as an exemplar online space. The core technology for JellyOS has been adapted and developed for the ‘Rafi.ki’ project by Gemin-i.org.

So welcome, Nick 🙂

Cleveratom gains a new director

Hal

It is a great pleasure to welcome Nick Platts to the board at Cleveratom. Nick is a renowned technical expert who specialises in mobile applications. His expertise will complete the senior team of the company and ensure there is a greater depth to the technical development side of Cleveratom.

Nick has recently left Weecom in London, where he has been working on several exciting pieces of work. Most recently, Nick was part of the team that built the functionality that lets you program your Sky box using your mobile phone.

Prior to this Nick was regularly found haunting the centre of Ultralab where he worked on some equally ground breaking applications, one of which was the delightful ‘JellyOS’ – a piece of community software that to this day has not been replicated but that offers significant improvements on the functionality of many commercial offerings. Sadly, JellyOS was shelved as funding ceased, but remains as an exemplar online space. The core technology for JellyOS has been adapted and developed for the ‘Rafi.ki’ project by Gemin-i.org.

So welcome, Nick 🙂