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Okay good news; the edge worked out fine. I was able to reserve one of their gather spots for next Thursday Oct 6th.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Both the edge staff (and a guy from the linux group who was there) recommend using "Meet Up" as a scheduling tool (although they were not aware of its origins as a post 911 community building exercise from NY).</div><div><br></div><div>So we got a time; it sounds like we can gather a small group for this first "post foss4g" one; and plan for something every second month.</div><div><br></div><div>Is anyone familiar with "meet up" or already have an account set up? I will try and compose an nice clean email for tomorrow (suitable for forwarding to co-workers).</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks everyone for the support / encouragement / ideas with respect to getting something going on in Brisbane.</div><div><br>-- <br>Jody Garnett<br><br></div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Wednesday, 28 September 2011 at 5:17 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:</p>
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</div><div><br></div><div>I am going to walk over to the edge now and check it out; if that does not work out lets book the Mincom.</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to do something/anything *now* with whoever we can find who is interested. It would be good to talk shop - I have some presentations we can talk over (status of geotools, status of geoserver, wps-shootout). And can get my hands on a few more .... but I would also like to just talk shop and figure out what people are doing in town?</div><div><br></div><div>Other than I would like to set something up for mid November; perhaps before Spatial@Gov as i expect that will steal people.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't think we need a Brisbane group; the aust-nz email list is not really crowded so we can just organise things here?</div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Wednesday, 28 September 2011 at 9:42 AM, Neil Crisp wrote:</p><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<span><div><div>Hi Jody,<br><br>I am doing a geospatial integration product development for Mincom as part of the Ellipse 8 rewrite based on an open source technology stack. I would be keen to find out what other open source geospatial projects are going on in Brisbane as well as get a debrief on FOSS4G (I got to the Sydney one but missed the last two). I think the last Brisbane get together was about two years ago and I found out about it too late.<br><br>If the edge is not suitable then the Mincom auditorium is available after hours for no charge. In fact one of our developers hosted a Function Programming meeting there last night. Let's know if you are interested, but in any case I would be keen to see a Brisbane osgeo group formed.<br><br>cheers,<br>Neil Crisp.<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:18:22 +1000<br>From: Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: [Aust-NZ] Brisbane Location suggested<br>To: OSGeo NZ/AU <<a href="mailto:aust-nz@lists.osgeo.org">aust-nz@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:23B9012712CC40B58E9C55B3E327C41C@gmail.com">23B9012712CC40B58E9C55B3E327C41C@gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br> I have received the suggestion of "the edge" for a brisbane osgeo meet <br>up - it is next to the main state library with a focus on digital media. <br>Since open source is the ultimate digital media I will make an inquiry <br>to see if it is suitable.<br><br>-- <br>Jody Garnett<br><br><br>On Sunday, 25 September 2011 at 3:53 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Sounds good. My impression with these thing is you need to start small <br></div></blockquote>and be consistent. The bulk of people wait to hear back on how the first <br>couple sessions go. <br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>I may actually be fun to do a non-install fest. Since we have a nice <br></div></blockquote>'live' DVD / USB We could try out the software and talk shop without <br>having people worry about cleaning up their machine after. <br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Cheers,<br>Jody<br><br>On 25/09/2011, at 3:25 PM, Nathan Woodrow <<a href="mailto:woodrow.nathan@gmail.com">woodrow.nathan@gmail.com</a> <br></div></blockquote>(<a href="mailto:woodrow.nathan@gmail.com">mailto:woodrow.nathan@gmail.com</a>)> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Jody,<br><br>I would be keen for a gathering in Brisbane, code sprint or other. <br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote>There seems to be a bit of activity down in Vic for OsGeo stuff but not <br>much movement in Qld. Would be good to see something started. <br><blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>- Nathan Woodrow<br><br>On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Jody Garnett <br></div></blockquote></blockquote><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a> (<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com">mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>)> wrote:<br><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div> Thanks for making this go Simone; grass roots events are exactly <br></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>what local chapters are supposed to be about. <br><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Can I ask how you found space? I would love to have a gathering is <br></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>Brisbane (or even a code sprint) but am always held back by the <br>financial hurdle of finding a venue. In Canada we always had a local <br>company provide room; but in Australia insurance considerations seem to <br>get in the way. <br><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>-- <br>Jody Garnett<br></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Aust-NZ mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org">Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz</a><br></div></div></span>
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