[Aust-NZ] Interesting... VPS Hack Day

[hamish.taylor at dse.vic.gov.au]

VPS (Victorian Public Service) Hack Day

http://www.vic.gov.au/vps-hack-day

Hack Day: an event where developers, designers and people with ideas 
gather to build 'cool stuff' (source: Wikipedia)

Come one, come all! Form a team and turn up on the day for an intense hack 
session, working flat out from 9am to 6pm to devise and build applications 
and mashups using Victorian Government data.
Some really cool stuff came out of the Federal Government’s Hack Day held 
last year. You can check out the fruits of that day’s labour at 
http://mashupaustralia.org/

VPS Hack Day is open to all VPS employees. You will need: 
at least one laptop with wireless capability per team
some good ideas
a multi-skilled team (web developers, programmers, data experts, 
designers, content writers, ideas people)
enthusiasm

Note: You can have non-VPS team members (but we can't have any teams with 
no VPS staff in them) 

And - there will be prizes!

Wednesday 24 February
9.00am - 6.00pm
Mercure on Spring St
13 Spring St
Melbourne

To register:
Please email your team members names and departments together with a 
nominated contact person to: innovationplan at dpc.vic.gov.au by Thursday 18 
February

Enquiries: Amanda Finnis DIIRD 9938 0512

This event is part of the VPS Innovation Festival, which is brought to you 
by the VPS Innovation Action Plan. The festival acknowledges the support 
of festival partners: Department of Education and Early Childhood 
Development; Department of Innovation Industry and Regional Development; 
Department of Justice; Department of Premier and Cabinet; Australia and 
New Zealand School of Government; and IPAA Victoria.

Kind Regards,

Hamish Taylor
Positioning Regional Victoria Project
Spatial Information Infrastructure
Department of Sustainability and Environment
Level 13/570 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000
Phone: 03 8636 2894
Mobile: 0428 638 386
Email: hamish.taylor at dse.vic.gov.au