[OSGeo Oceania] Perth QGIS meetup 25 March (OSGeo Oceania microgrant)

[John Bryant]

Hi, just a brief report on the Perth QGIS meetup hosted by Geogeeks Perth
[1] last night at Spacecubed in the Perth CBD, and sponsored by the OSGeo
Oceania Microgrants program.

We advertised on Twitter and LinkedIn, sent mail outs to the Geogeeks
mailing list, and forwarded to the FOSS4G SotM Oceania Perth Hub mailing
list.

We used Humanitix [2] for our registration, which worked well. We had 55
registrations, and approximately 30 people turned up, probably a reasonable
ratio for a free event.

We ran 4 short community presentations:

   - Grant Boxer: Changing the GIS Paradigm for WA Geologists
   - Esther Harris: QGIS Training from Geos to NGOs
   - Piers Higgs: Around the world with QGIS in 10 minutes
   - Stafford Smith: When you can't buy the tool, make it yourself - Basic
   plugin development with QGIS

We had pizza & refreshments and a bit of socialising after the
presentations, which had a really nice casual community vibe.

After the presentations, several people said they'd be interested in giving
a presentation at another similar event, and a couple of people said they'd
like to help organise, which makes it a big success in my mind.

A photo from the event here
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g1et3PE_QSHIa2VtSf-UYITzj5H1SRTQ> [3].

Thanks to Elisa and the OSGeo Oceania Microgrants team for doing the work
to make it possible to run events like this!

Cheers
John

[1] https://geogeeks.org/
[2] https://events.humanitix.com/perth-qgis-meetup-mar2021
[3] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g1et3PE_QSHIa2VtSf-UYITzj5H1SRTQ
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