When the announcement came up that the guys at TSR HQ were looking to take on a summer intern I jumped at the chance. After last years bagel-based reviews and the opportunity of sun, sea, sand (ok, forget the sand) and TSR work behind the scenes, I couldn’t really miss out. Luckily enough they offered me the chance and have been enjoying all sorts of projects and bits and pieces involved in running the site this week.
Work stuff ranges from the here and now (ad’ campaigns and general admin stuff), soon to be implemented projects (which you’ll probably notice in the not too distant future) as well as longer term plans (such as the mammoth v3.5 to v3.8 vBulletin migration). Not to mention coursework.info developments i’ve been putting a little bit of code in for.
But yeah, Brighton in the sun is a great place, the people are friendly (the guys in the office as well as my chatty beachside tramp pal) and where else would you find a window cleaning company with a gothic herse as transport?
However today has been a bit different to the norm. An invitation was received for the launch of YCC’s (youth citizenship commission) launch of “Making the connection; Building youth citizenship in the UK” initiative in London, now that findings and research have been published and ready to be presented to the government about a number of issues with objectives set. The general outline being the involvement of young people in politics whilst also looking into the potential to lower the voting age to 16. An idea i’m still not so sure about.
So me and Jamie (J) were there in an amazingly diverse room with corporate looking people, guys in baseballs caps, children and various others young and old. A few notable names where there, including Wes Streeting – NUS National President (to give him his proper title), journalist Miranda Sawyer and Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson among others. Most of those invited seemed to be affiliated with sites or schemes aimed at the younger generations with politics in mind. Interesting to hear of different sites and their intentions to bring politics to the younger demographic through various means, of which I had not heard before. Catch 21, Student Voice and the Young Mayor Network just a few of the names there. Infact it was slightly puzzling as to why TSR hadn’t been engaged more in a non-commercial approach to aiding the objectives of the research findings. I guess a lot depends on the input from the government, although the attending MP (Bridget Prentice) seemed to big up the plans, who knows what will really happen. If anything does then there should be an update here and no doubt TSR will hear/debate about it. But for now, the YCC site for those interested.
Hopefully the following weeks will prove just as involving and who knows what’s just around the corner.
So, until next time…and to leave you with an image from the South Bank. 10/10 for creativity. I give you the music man…cat:
- CJ
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