[School-of-data] What I learned from working on School of Data

Thu Mar 12 08:12:37 UTC 2015

Thanks Lucy!

I like to call people like us - hubs, bridges and matchmakers who help
people navigate information in a human way.

Welcome to the blogging addicition. Keep it up.

heather

Heather Leson
heatherleson at gmail.com
Twitter: HeatherLeson
Blog: textontechs.com

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Anna Kuliberda <anna.kuliberda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Lucy,
> Thanks for this, it's great and really useful especially since I struggle
> with similar questions and issues all the time :)
> best wishes from Sarajevo!
> anna
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy at fedia.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi there folks,
>>
>> Looking at the list archives, I'm not sure that my "I'm moving on from
>> School of Data"[1] message came through to the list so apologies if this
>> comes out sequence.
>>
>> I've had a lovely month off winding down from work and have had time to
>> do some writing on what I learned working at Open Knowledge and
>> particularly on School of Data. I'm sending it along in case it is of
>> interest!
>>
>> This first post is about people and is entitled: “Why I deleted the word
>> ‘techie’ from my vocabulary” - http://techtohuman.com/5_in_5_people/
>>
>> #longread warning.
>>
>> There is a part which is particularly pertinent to School of Data, if
>> you would like to jump straight to that:
>>
>> http://techtohuman.com/5_in_5_people/#techies
>>
>> Which focusses on the decision for the Open Knowledge School of Data
>> team to focus on tech skills below a code ceiling, and whether that was
>> a good idea, and whether a code ceiling even exists.
>>
>> One of the next posts I want to write is on teaching, so I am keen for
>> any feedback on whether the framing I use here makes sense to people, as
>> I suspect the topic will rear its head again in the next post!
>>
>> Thank you as ever,
>>
>> Lucy
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2015-January/010783.html
>> --
>>   Lucy Chambers
>>   lucy at fedia.net
>>   http://techtohuman.com/
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