Ian Kynnersley

Internet technology person. Eclectic musical tastes, bicycling, technology, ethics in tech, parenting escapades. Currently helping out at @oaknational.

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

@choosenick @trpicalist @matr77 @JGAttenborough Sooo goood. I still dream about those sandwiches. Hope you’re all well!

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

We (@OakNational) are hiring a Lead React Engineer and a Lead Backend Engineer. Lots of responsibility and opportunity to shape the growth of the products, technologies and teams as we grow. Details here: https://t.co/TuniXM16vK

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

OMG Jeffrey Lewis is still freaking awesome: https://t.co/Q9vbJUxvML

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

@simonianson @_withjack @threedaymonk I am very happy @_withjack (though haven’t needed to actually use it yet 🤞)

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

In addition to the obvious (and painstaking) political wranglings this has taken a huge amount of technical inventiveness and creativity (not to mention skill) to pull off. It's obviously a full team effort but 👏in particular to @stef

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

In a few weeks we should be able to start serving all of our videos and learning resources from across 3rd party services entirely through @OakNational domain to enable every child in the UK to use Oak across the major UK mobile networks with no data charges

[Oak National Academy @OakNational]

🎉 Data campaign 🎉
We're very excited to say that @VodafoneUK, @O2, @ThreeUK and @EE have agreed to join our campaign for zero-rating education sites 🥳

We now have some work to do with @MuxHQ and all involved, but this is a massive step forward in closing the #DigitalDivide 👏

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

@jenlewjen Thanks for this Jen! Sent to our MP and will share with friends

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

@simonianson Not sure if you’ve seen but if you add the webpage to your home screen you get the web experience in its own little app.

[Stef @stef]

🤯 We've helped over a million children in the last 24 hours to be able to keep learning from home during lockdown. Well done to all the teachers who came together to make all these video lessons over the Summer! Glad the tech is holding up to do it justice 😅😎

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

If you can, join the @climateActTech TEDx event tomorrow to discuss the role that the tech industry can play in taking real action to address the climate emergency #TEDxClimateActionTech

[ClimateAction.tech @climateActTech]

Join us for the first TEDx to link #ClimateAction to the #Tech industry, as part of @TEDx @TEDCountdown #JoinTheCountdown #TEDtalks https://t.co/1ne4WEEmFM

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

@sonofswiss Completely agree on Postal Service though. Heard that song on 6music the other day and still enjoyed it

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

@sonofswiss I started trying to convert all my compilation tapes from that era to mp3 recently. Then decided it was easier just to re-make them in Spotify. A surprisingly small number of songs not available. Very few songs I still like too 😃

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

@sonofswiss Oh yeah - good call. I don’t think that made the cut when we reduced our cd collection down to a mere 5 shelves. But I really liked it when it came out.

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

@John_McCay His voice is like a comforting hug

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

https://t.co/cjEgEjRKvh

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

My team at @OakNational are hiring a Head of Product. Perhaps it could be you? Any questions, feel free to ask me or John.

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

Simon is awesome. Astute business strategy and design leadership. You should probably hire him.

[Stef @stef]

🎉 It’s live! 🎉 Over the Summer we’ve built a new version of the @OakNational platform with almost 10,000 video lessons covering a wide range of subject. It’s a “Plan B” for if schools/communities end up in COVID lockdown. https://t.co/t7SZV3wN2m

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

@simonianson Yeah it feels pretty good. Not out of the woods yet and still have a constantly elevated heart rate and an underlying exhaustion. In the interests of complete transparency, we have all also worked way too many hours.

[Ian Kynnersley @kpopper]

The last couple of months of my life have been spent shaping and capturing data about ~10k lessons, turning it into a coherent curriculum and timetable and encoding and captioning the video for the lessons. We shipped the lesson planner app yesterday with classroom coming v soon!