Presentation for the Bristol IT MegaMeet about the work that we do at Trinity and our use of Free and Open Source Software

1. Trinity Community Arts
Ryan Northey
ryan@3ca.org.uk
3ca.org.uk

2. The Trinity Centre
Grade 2* listed building
Converted to community centre and gig venue in 70s
Protected under covenant for use in service of:
Youth
Community
Arts
3ca.org.uk

3. Creative expression for all!
Commited to engaging local communities through arts
Cross divides between techology, arts and academia
Focus on heritage and social cohesion
Empowerment through training and resources
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4. Open Sauce
Core policy to use and spread FOSS
Recognised the benefits to marginalised communities
Critical to early success of organisation
Allowed us to invest in “human resources”
Linux and FOSS are becoming ubiquitous now
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5. code.3ca
Work with (mostly) young people
Develop local networking and coding skills
Support other 3rd sector organisations
Develop in-house software systems
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6. Slim desktops
Debian based desktop distro
Local processing, centralised storage
LDAP authentication
NFS over VPN
Maintained in apt repositories
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7. Community Archive
Uses Zope/Plone
Develop organisational memory
Locus of local historical knowledge
Repository for contemporary artists
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8. The Curate
Async daemons for:
Building code
Processing data
Managing services
Wasting time
Multiple interfaces (XMPP/HTTP/IRC)
Speech friendly (AIML)
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9. The Bit Foundation
Publish developed code
Make use of github and 'social coding'
http://github.com/bithub
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10. Trinity Community Arts
http://3ca.org.uk/projects/technology
3ca.org.uk