This week has centered around project Southwold, in particular the first Workshop that happened on Tuesday.  We had nine attendees in all, including the Rattle team (now featuring Tim), Kim, Claire, Greg and Tom.  We had some fascinating discussions around the motivations people have for judging and the mechanics behind it, as well as a fun session in the afternoon, (in my case) pretending to be a games designer and cranking out as many ideas for games as possible in two half hour slots.  Tim and I won the runner up prize for best game idea, which was a lego minifig, no prizes for guessing Frankie ran that session !

Other projects are starting to come to a natural end as we ramp up for Southwold.  These include:

  1. Project Largs is in the final stages of evaluation, for a sneaky preview peak look here.  We’ll be publishing blog posts about this project explaining it’s development and some of the challenges when designing dashboards.
  2. Project Mablethorpe.  Andrew and James are putting the finishing touches on the final concepts for the service, looking at collaborative video editing.
  3. Project Prestwick.  Liasing with NESTA who pick winners for the project shortly.

The JobBox project from the last hackday is still bubbling away under the surface, we’re building more jobboxes as the time becomes available, so hopefully we’ll all have one at our desk.   We’ve successfully hooked up a jobbox to the dashboard and got it logging changes.

James also headed down to that London town and met up with the sparky Katy Lindemann, who is going to be helping us out with some comms planning for a few projects, which means we really need to finish off the new iteration of the Rattle website, its coming soon, really soon, or have we said that already ?

Some things we saw/learnt/loved this week :