[Aust-NZ] Brisbane Location The Edge Thurs Oct 6th

Wed Sep 28 08:29:28 EDT 2011

 Okay good news; the edge worked out fine. I was able to reserve one of their gather spots for next Thursday Oct 6th.

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).

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.

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).

Thanks everyone for the support / encouragement / ideas with respect to getting something going on in Brisbane.

-- 
Jody Garnett

On Wednesday, 28 September 2011 at 5:17 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

>  Sounds Great: 
> 
> I am going to walk over to the edge now and check it out; if that does not work out lets book the Mincom.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Other than I would like to set something up for mid November; perhaps before Spatial at Gov as i expect that will steal people.
> 
> 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? 
> 
> -- 
> Jody Garnett
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, 28 September 2011 at 9:42 AM, Neil Crisp wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jody,
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > cheers,
> > Neil Crisp.
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Message: 1
> > > Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:18:22 +1000
> > > From: Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com (mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com)>
> > > Subject: [Aust-NZ] Brisbane Location suggested
> > > To: OSGeo NZ/AU <aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org (mailto:aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org)>
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> > >  I have received the suggestion of "the edge" for a brisbane osgeo meet 
> > > up - it is next to the main state library with a focus on digital media. 
> > > Since open source is the ultimate digital media I will make an inquiry 
> > > to see if it is suitable.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Jody Garnett
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sunday, 25 September 2011 at 3:53 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Sounds good. My impression with these thing is you need to start small 
> > > and be consistent. The bulk of people wait to hear back on how the first 
> > > couple sessions go. 
> > > > 
> > > > I may actually be fun to do a non-install fest. Since we have a nice 
> > > 'live' DVD / USB We could try out the software and talk shop without 
> > > having people worry about cleaning up their machine after. 
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Jody
> > > > 
> > > > On 25/09/2011, at 3:25 PM, Nathan Woodrow <woodrow.nathan at gmail.com (mailto:woodrow.nathan at gmail.com) 
> > > (mailto:woodrow.nathan at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Hi Jody,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I would be keen for a gathering in Brisbane, code sprint or other. 
> > > There seems to be a bit of activity down in Vic for OsGeo stuff but not 
> > > much movement in Qld. Would be good to see something started. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > - Nathan Woodrow
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Jody Garnett 
> > > <jody.garnett at gmail.com (mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com) (mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > > > >  Thanks for making this go Simone; grass roots events are exactly 
> > > what local chapters are supposed to be about. 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Can I ask how you found space? I would love to have a gathering is 
> > > Brisbane (or even a code sprint) but am always held back by the 
> > > financial hurdle of finding a venue. In Canada we always had a local 
> > > company provide room; but in Australia insurance considerations seem to 
> > > get in the way. 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > -- 
> > > > > > Jody Garnett
> > 
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