Q&A session with Marco Biagi and Mark McAteer
Delegates were asked to pose questions for this session. Continue reading
Fairer Scotland event for Community Councils 4: QandAs with Marco Biagi and Mark McAteer
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Fairer Scotland event for Community Councils 5: helping CCs create a fairer Scotland
Workshop 2 – What do you think needs to be done to help community councils create a fairer Scotland?
Here’s my table’s answers: Continue reading
Fairer Scotland event for Community Councils 6: CCs’ roles – John Wilby
A Community Council’s Role in Creating a Fairer Scotland – John Wilby, Community Councillor, Chair of Paisley West & Central Community Council
Mr Wilby spoke about the need for a public service ethos in CCs. He suggested that it’s no surprise that many CC members work for or are retired from public-serving bodies such as the Civil Service, LAs, the NHS and other mergence services. CCs need to get in there and do stuff, if I’ve understood Mr Wilby correctly. Again, this is about earning respect.
Fairer Scotland event for Community Councils 7: CCs’ roles in Scotland’s future
Workshop 3 – How can your community council play a role in helping to shape Scotland’s future?
Unfortunately didn’t get a photo of our facilitator’s notes. I think most of the ideas we raise are reported in thoughts and encounters 1 and thoughts and encounters 2.
Fairer Scotland event for Community Councils 8: Dotmocracy
Break-out and vote on suggestions: Dotmocracy
Each table’s top idea from each workshop was written out on big sheets. Every delegate could then vote for one or two suggestions from each workshop. For example, if I really liked ‘make CCs more inclusive’ from workshop 1, I could give it two sticky dots (votes). If I liked ‘make CCs more inclusive’ and ‘give CCs power to control dog-fouling’ equally from workshop 1, I could give them each one dot/vote.
Fairer Scotland event for Community Councils 9: Thoughts and encounters part 1
Thoughts and encounters part 1
I spoke with a few delegates during the day, and some other interesting topics came up in the all-delegate discussions. This and the next post report my reactions to these topics Continue reading
Fairer Scotland event for Community Councils 10: Thoughts and encounters part 2
Thoughts and encounters part 2
I spoke with a few delegates during the day, and some other interesting topics came up in the all-delegate discussions. This and the previous post report my reactions to these topics. Continue reading
Fairer Scotland event for Community Councils 11: gathered reactions
This post gathers my reactions to the event’s sessions. Click any heading to go to the relevant post. Continue reading
CC website health – not so good
Elsewhere I’ve stated that some CC websites are ‘abominations’. While this is true, I’m embarrassed to say that none of the CC websites I run are perfect.
I used a questionnaire on the Communities, Parishes and Local Councils website to check them. Allowing for 20 of the 95 questions being irrelevant to CCs, because parish councils can do lots more than CCs, the scores are not what I want. CC names are disguised to avoid embarrassing them.
| CC website | score | % |
| XXXX | 59 | 61% |
| YYYYY | 49 | 52% |
| ZZZZZ | 52 | 55% |
Speed demon, but cheap and cheerful
My 2009 Mac Pro is getting long in the tooth. IGGY still works just fine of course I feel the need for speed. I don’t want to replace him with a garbage can. No matter how many cores and Thunderbolt ports they have, they only have one storage unit. The base model has 256 GB of PCI-E-based SSD, and I need at least two units of 1TB each. (One for normal use, one for CarbonCopyClones).
Bruce's IT-ish world 