Opentech 2009

Spread the web

Fran Sainsbury and William Perrin

The Problem

• People we like are being ripped off

• With rubbish, expensive inflexible websites

• Why don’t they do it themselves?

Seven hours project management and testing to embed a YouTube video on flat low traffic html site

People lack confidence and basic skills

• Think its technical and complicated

• People often literally afraid of the web

• They had a go many years ago

Inspiration

Simple sites

Wordpress or

on Wordpress.com

Next - revamp this local school site

How this could be spread

Despite

The pressures of earning a living

Opentech posters

• The people who need this most aren’t here today

• Our stuff is simple because we are• Opentech people have far more talent• Can do more powerful things

Opentech

Put aside 100 hours

• “Every time a person takes into their own hands the tools of production…They are able not just to consume, but to produce, to invent culture”

• Matt Webb

Can we match want with need?

Is something like this the answer?

America exports their geeks

Do people want to help?

william@cankfarm.com