WRITTEN ON November 29th, 2005 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized

The faster Google performs online the more hard-pressed its excellent folk are in real life. But Google goodies winners can be reassured….I hear from Google’s open-source project manager Chris this is being processed today. Thanks to Chris and to James for the ping.

Winners – drop me a line to tell me what it looks like!

BTW Ben, Alistair, Kenny, Simon & Ben – I presented screen grabs of your great works to the EU Ministerial e-gov conference at MICC last week, and again tday to the GC Scotland show in Edinburgh, as prime examples of the quick wins government will get if it just makes itself navigabl and opens itself up to co-creation. So spod, Capes & McLeod, g-traffic info are all famous. Strange lack of BBC news stories in Scotland tho – only football and some poker player. Surely BBC Scotland reports far more than that?I did get this. I’m going to process these today.

Chris

On 11/10/05, William.Heath@kablenet.com wrote:
> Chris
>
> Can I just check – did you get the list of winners I sent you (copied below) and have a chance to act upon it?
>
> I’m about to contact all the winners again and wanted to be sure we were all OK.
>
>
> William
>
> ___________________________________
> William Heath, Kable Ltd, +44 7973 115024
> www.idealgovernment.com
> www.kablenet.com
>
> > Chris DiBona
> > > om> cc:
> > Subject: Saw your contest.
> > 30/08/05 07:06
> > Please respond to
> > cdibona
> >
> >
> > We’d be pleased to send a few google things (we can choose from fun
> > shirts, usb keys, frisbee or a lava lamp,etc) to your winners.
> >
> > Let me know if you’d like to do this.
> >
> > Chris
> > –
> > Open Source Program Manager, Google Inc.
> > Google’s Open Source program can be found at http://code.google.com
> > Personal Weblog: http://dibona.com
>
>
> —– Forwarded by William Heath/kable on 10/11/2005 22:31 —–
>
> William Heath
> To: cdibona@google.com
> 16/10/2005 18:17 cc:
> Subject: Ideal Government maps mashups contest. And the winner is….(Document link:
> William Heath)
>
>
> Dear Chris
>
> www.idealgovernment.com
> maps mashup competition
> ===================
>
> The entries for this were great! We decided the outright winner for a Google Goodies box should be
>
> Plymouth Schools, by Simon Wright.
>
> We named five runners-up of near-equal merit – listed below – whom you might or might not contact depending on the extent of Google’s lava lamp resources. I’m sure they’d one and all be delighted to hear from you!
>
> For the judges full deliberations please see: http://www.idealgovernment.com/index.php/weblog/maps_mashups_the_judges_have_deliberated/
>
> You’ve created a very lively scene with this initiative, great fun, engaging really innovative and open people. There’s an awful lot of talent out there. And deep lessons (eg for government) in how to get everyone on your side, co-creating in a process of democratised innovation.
>
> Many thanks for supporting this.
>
>
> William Heath
>
> _____________________________
> William Heath + 44 7973 115024
> www.idealgovernment.com
> www.kablenet.com
>
>
>
> Outright winner:
>
> Plymouth schools
> Simon Wright
> simon@totalchange.com
> 6 Dartmoor Cottages
> Wotter
> Plymouth
> Devon
> PL7 5HN
>
>
> Entirely deserving of a prize:
>
> gTraffic info -
> Mr Alistair Rutherford,
> email: wee_malk@yahoo.co.uk
> alistair.rutherford@mottmac.com
> 28 Clochbar Ave
> Milngavie,
> Glasgow
> G62 7JL
> Home: 0141 956 2780
> Mobile: 07971083889
>
>
> Five day weather maps
> Kenny Shepherd.
> kenny_sheppard@hotmail.com
> 12 Moor Road,
> Dawley,
> Telford,
> Shropshire.
> TF4 2AP
>
> Ninja Grapefruit’s Mapped News
> Ben ONeill
> boneill@gmail.com
> 77 Portswood Road
> Portswood
> Southampton
> SO17 2FU
>
>
> Library maps -
> Richard Wallis
> Richard.Wallis@talis.com
> Technical Development Manager
> Talis Information Ltd
> Knights Court
> Solihull Parkway
> Birmingham Business Park
> B37 7YB
> United Kingdom
> Tel: +44 (0)870 400 5422 (Direct)
> Tel: +44 (0)870 400 5400 (Switchboard)
> Fax: +44 (0)870 400 5401
>
>
> Spod.cx speed camera maps
> Ben Charlton
> B.C.Charlton@kent.ac.uk
> Templeman Library
> University of Kent
> Canterbury
> Kent
> CT2 7NU
>
> ….with thanks to the independent expert judge:
>
> Stefan Magdalinski
> stefan@whitelabel.org
> 07769 666528
>
> ___________________________________
> William Heath, Kable Ltd, +44 7973 115024
> www.idealgovernment.com
> www.kablenet.com
>
>
>
>
>
> Chris DiBona
> > om> cc:
> Subject: Re: Saw your contest.
> 03/09/2005 22:21
> Please respond to
> cdibona
>
>
> Yeah, that should be fine. Feel free to tell your contestents that
> this is one of the prizes:
>
> A Gift box From Google.
>
> Or not, your call!
>
> Chris
>
> On 8/30/05, William.Heath@kablenet.com wrote:
> >
> > Dear Chris
> >
> > That’s a delightful idea, thank you.
> >
> > What’s best – shall I be in touch again when we’ve judged and have names and addresses of winners?
> >
> >
> > William
> >
> > ___________________________________
> > William Heath, Chairman, Kable Ltd, +44 7973 115024
> > UK Public-sector intelligence and media services
> > www.idealgovernment.com
> > www.kablenet.com
> >
> >
> –
> Open Source Program Manager, Google Inc.
> Google’s Open Source program can be found at http://code.google.com
> Personal Weblog: http://dibona.com