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GeoRabble Brisbane organizers update

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The second GeoRabble Brisbane Organizing Team meeting has an offer of sponsorship, giving courage to proceed, and (Woot!) a door-prize, thanks to a #fatfinger error by a Perth based vendor on the Georabble Twitter login: Beautifully exploited by Rob into a compensatory “offer” of an anonymous door prize for this event.

The venue: The Pig and Whistle has two options: The back beer garden is a good venue as long as the weather is kind. There is a smaller area within the bar so we’ll see how registrations go.

Now, we do already have a great shortlist of speakers but are still entertaining ideas, so contact use the brisbane@georabble.org email. The next meeting date is Mar 22 so move quickly.

Yours,
The organizing team

Nick Lawrence, Yvonne Thompson, Megan Stanley, Graeme Browning, Karl Warschau, Rob Clout, Jody Garnett

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Speakers at GeoRabble Sydney #4

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We’re building an excellent lineup for GeoRabble Sydney #4!

Here’s the list of confirmed speakers so far to whet your geo-appetite (bios and abstracts to follow next week):

Jack Zhao (Small Multiples) : Are casino operators targeting vulnerable community groups?

Andrew Cook : 10 Good Reasons to Share Data

Kathryn Howard (Bookcrossing) : Books Just Wanna Be Free!

Paul Wither : Set your data free from the typing pool

GeoRabble Sydney #4 is on Thursday March 29 at the Shelbourne Hotel (doors open 5.30pm, talks from 6.30pm). Get your free tickets at GeoRabbleSydney4.eventbrite.com.au

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Woot! GeoRabble rolls into Brisbane

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GeoRabble #1 arrives in Brisbane on Tuesday April 17 (doors open 5.30pm, talks from 6.30pm). Then grab yourself a free ticket!

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GeoRabble Arrives in Brisbane! (Photo by Cyron Ray Macey)

Hungry for a tasty serve of Brisbane geospatial goodness, free of agendas and sales pitches, amongst your friends and colleagues?  Want to find out about some of the great unsung work being done by passionate people working with location? We’re lining up some great speakers and topics and there are a few speaking slots available – if you’ve got something new and exciting from the world of geo, please email us at brisbane@georabble.org

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GeoRabble Sydney #4 – Tickets now Available!

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GeoRabble returns to Sydney on Thursday March 29 at the Shelbourne Hotel (doors open 5.30pm, talks from 6.30pm).

If you’re suffering the post-GeoNext blues and need another serve of geospatial goodness, free of agendas and sales pitches, amongst your friends and colleagues;  or if you just want to find out about some of the great unsung work being done by passionate people working with location:  then grab yourself a free ticket!

We’ll let you know more about some of the great speakers we’ve got lined up shortly, but in the meantime we’ve still got a few speaking slots available – if you’ve got something new and exciting from the world of geo, please email us at sydney@georabble.org

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GeoRabble #2 – Perth

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Following hot on the heels of the successful inaugural Perth GeoRabble, we’re getting ourselves geared up for the second evening to share geo-ideas, full of fun, and free of sales-pitches.

What is GeoRabble?

GeoRabble is about celebrating the everyday challenges and triumphs of working with location. Everything from the mundane to the glamorous, unfiltered by professional bodies, government and private company agendas and industry politics.

Who is GeoRabble for?

Anyone who has anything to do with GeoTech, GeoDev, GeoBusiness, GeoTrends, GeoFutures, GeoPasts – you name it, as long as you’re passionate and want to share your challenges, triumphs, frustrations and pride in the work that you do.

Date: 21 February, 2012
Time: Doors open 5.30pm, talks from 6.30pm
Location:
The Oxford Hotel
368 Oxford Street
Leederville, 6007

Continue reading GeoRabble #2 – Perth →

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Thank You!

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What a year!

What amazing gatherings of geo minded people and rabble rousing across the country.

  • 29 Presentations
  • 4 Sydney GeoRabbles
  • 1 Perth GeoRabble
  • 1 Melbourne GeoRabble
  • Over 420 people have come along and connected

When GeoRabble started it was a simple idea that more could be done to give voice to everyday users and uses of geo, to inspire, connect, share and have fun.

Little did we know so many of you felt the same.

It has been so much fun meeting so many new geo folks and reconnecting with friends in the community.

So, before the year is out we just wanted to send out a massive thank you to everyone of our presenters, attendees and sponsors for making GeoRabble what it has become, the fastest growing, community lead, geo event in Australia.

We hope you all have great Christmas celebrations with friends and family and may the New Year be better and bigger for all your geo endeavours.

Watch out for more GeoRabble events across the country in the New Year and hopefully a new City or two.

Here’s to more rabble rousing in the New Year.

The GeoRabble Crew

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1st Rule of GeoRabble: You are Georabble

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To keep to the 1st and 3rd Rule of GeoRabble, the next Sydney event is going to be a celebration and a chance for you to influence the next events.

What are we celebrating?

We are absolutely amazed and stunned at how the GeoRabble idea has spread across the geo community. How it has been embraced, the energy, the commitment and the passion.

  • Over 380 fellow GeoRabblers have attended GeoRabble’s across the country.
  • 29 Presentations have been given by passionate and clever individuals
  • 5 Events have been held across the country
  • 3 GeoRabbles in Sydney, 1 GeoRabble in Perth and last but not least 1 GeoRabble in Melbourne
  • Importantly 8 Sponsors have kindly supported the events making sure you get a quality event

How can you be GeoRabble?

Come to the 1st of December drinks and tell us your thoughts.

  • What worked or didn’t work.
  • Different event formats
  • You want to join the organising Rabble
  • Like the venue, or not.
  • Bring back the Pizzas!

All ideas are more than welcome and we will throw them into the mix for next year.

So come along to the Occidental Hotel (near Wynyard Station) where we held the first ever GeoRabble, at 6pm on Thursday 1st December and we are looking forward to some great conversations and fun.

Please register at http://georabblexmas.eventbrite.com (it’s free, as always)