Innovation Labs

Open Map Kit

We have finished our preparation and Jen has made sure that we are ready to go. We are due to present our project tomorrow. We have suffered a last minute name change and have lost the word 'tool'. Open Map Kit is keen to go, Wizards away ...

I am slightly scared of the picture below, generally it feels like 1981 (with added laptops) here, Maggie's picture hangs on the wall, the establishment look down with scorn from the walls, Lord Reith is available on an RSS feed to remind us of core values. It does occur to me that the BBC has missed a new media trick you have had desktop Mottie or Bill Oddie. But a desktop Lord Reith the remind staff of core values now that would work.

3 cans of red bull and a creme brulee...

... and will whitelaw starts to come alive. try it.

Let it be...

After an inordinate amount of help (above and beyond the call of duty) and an intense round of writing and re-writing, our pitch for the final day is now locked. Finished. not changing any more. Finito. Done. It is an ex-draft.

Remember - "Capture the mood of the nation - join the national conversation."

Wish us luck.........

Moving on

We are starting to move forward into presentation mode, the lab hosts have been much more generous in their allocation of time this year. It feels like we have had more time to think and develop our ideas towards a presentation.

We are looking at Open Mapping Toolkit (OMT) being a tool which makes it easy for BBC web site producers to include mapped content and interfaces within their sites. The key challenge in this is to provide a clear interface which produces rich functional results for non-technical users.

I've got admit, it's getting better...

..getting better all the time. After a difficult day yesterday, we've had some good feedback today and are now ploughing forward with developing our pitch for the final day. We think we know our project pretty well by now, we hope we're anticipating some of the right questions and we've stopped arguing about minute details, which is surely a good sign. Sadly though, we've had to kill off Chris, one of our user profiles. A bad-tempered ex-copper just didn't fit into the project as it stands now, and however fond of him we were, we've had to put him out of his misery. Fortunately, Alex and John, our other users are alive and well, and have been joined by new boy, Andrew. Ian's had some fun playing with Dalek noises too - but this time it's work related. Meanwhile Ross has started swearing at PaintShop Pro. But it's getting there, and to paraphrase Nina Simone "It's feelin' good".