Alexei Schwab·16 hours ago2024|10 WeeknoteSqueezing in last week’s weeknote before it’s time to write this week’s. Live 30-minute drive-time coverage Last week I worked on a script that produces live coverage areas based on our response vehicles’ current locations. It shows the areas that are reachable within 30 minutes by any of our response vehicles and updates once…GIS2 min readGIS2 min read
Cinemanationcic·3 days agoOur first 3 and half day week!Welcome to our new experiment with a 3 and a half days work pattern — this decision has come from us really reflecting on our experiences of burn out — we have lots of projects, but will reducing our office and screen time lead to better wellbeing and more focus? …3 min read3 min read
Henry Sturm·5 days agoWeeknote 3 | 2024Systems thinking is “a framework for seeing the interconnections in a system and a discipline for seeing and understanding challenges in the context of the whole system…” (definition courtesy of the Civil Service). I recently came across NPC’s Systems Practice Toolkit. …Systems Thinking3 min readSystems Thinking3 min read
Alexei Schwab·Mar 4, 20242024|09 WeeknoteFairly quiet week this week. Postcode area boundaries from open data I did some testing on a way to create postcode area boundaries from open data. …GIS3 min readGIS3 min read
Penelope.·Mar 1, 2024Not the End just the BeginningI’ve decided to use the reflective questions I landed on to shape my week’s notes. Today’s our official last day with the Third Sector Lab’s Open Working Programme. I feel the excitement of a child who is about to graduate from a class with plans of how I’m going to…Weeknotes3 min readWeeknotes3 min read
Amy Steyaert·Mar 1, 20245 things I have learnt working with content designersI have been lucky enough to work with some very talented content designers during my time at Barnardo’s. Having a background in advertising, I had preconceived ideas of what a content designer was. When I first started in product design, I naively thought they were copywriters. I thought they ‘filled…Content Design2 min readContent Design2 min read
Alexei Schwab·Feb 28, 20242024|08 WeeknoteThis week I had calls with various communities of practice I’m a member of — on Python, Information Management, geospatial and data science. That’s a lot of CoP calls for one week! For the Python and geospatial ones, I facilitate the calls, for the others I just attend. Python User Group I’ve been…GIS3 min readGIS3 min read
Rachel Sutton, Future Wolverton Limited·Feb 26, 2024Turns out we had been doing it all alongWith the help of Power 2 Change and the support of CAST, we, and my peers who embarked on a journey of Discovery back in October, have been getting to grips with prototyping. One of my concerns/challenges was the number of Users I could currently access to prototype with. I…Prototyping3 min readPrototyping3 min read
Ben Glover·Feb 23, 2024Updates from this week: A crossover of research and prototypingHi! This is my first post as part of the Open Working Programme. It was a new experience for me but I really enjoyed the process and found it rather insightful and a different way of working, particularly as a freelancer. …Freelancing2 min readFreelancing2 min read
Penelope.·Feb 23, 2024What do I need to know?…and why? In the past, I worked hard and kept my focus on the bigger picture. Events and people would knock me off course and I would return to the course with varied degrees of vigour and reinforced focus. It would take me days and sometimes months to recover, to…Openwork2 min readOpenwork2 min read