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

[Emma Hain]

Hi John
Thanks for this reportage . It sounded really successful. 

Cheers

Emma Hain

> On 26 Mar 2021, at 13:33, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 [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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