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Talk for Tertiary IT Managers conference: Beyond Virtualisation-

September 19, 2008

I gave a talk today at the 26th Annual Tertiary IT Managers conference. “Beyond Virtualisation: what’s next for IT sustainability”. I explored computing and sustainability imperative, particularly in the tertiary sector. We looked at what other disciplines are doing and explored what it might mean to be a sustainable practitioner in computing. We […]

SimPa does the festival

September 18, 2008

We’ve been SimPa-ing at the Otago Maori and Pacific Island festival today. What an amazing event, hundreds, perhaps thousands of kids performing and enjoying a wonderful celebration of diverse cultures. Kids from several of the runaka groups Tori and Amber have been working with were performing. These are from the combined Peninsula schools. […]

Steam’s up for the Prime Minister

September 16, 2008

Well that was an interesting afternoon. We’ve been to the opening of the Emperor’s Dragons at the Otago Museum. Then, after nearly 90 minutes of speeches (being translated three ways), Phil and I dashed to the Dunedin Gas Works Museum for for another function. The reason for the busyness was the Prime Minister. […]

Dealing with the devil? Sponsorship ethics for LivingCampus

September 16, 2008

Our colleague Brian has a jacket for a favourite race-car team. It has fascinated me since he got it. What sort of negotiation went on that sees a smoking company and a quit-smoking company jostling for position on the same arm? Brian’s jacket has been on my mind the last couple of days following […]

Processes and entities for eLivingCampus

September 8, 2008

We’ve moved beyond – “we’re building a map/kiosk/database of the livingcampus” to “we’re building a system to support the management of the living campus – we’re focussing on school groups, for example a school group of thirty year 4s will be visiting the living campus to undertake activities that fit in with both what is […]