GeoRabble returns to Melbourne on Tuesday 15th March 2016 at the Savoy Tavern, 677 Bourke St, Melbourne (Corner Bourke & Spencer Sts). Networking drinks start 5:30pm. Presentations commence: 6:00pm followed by more networking.
Grab yourself a free ticket and enjoy the night with friends sharing geospatial ideas, free of sales pitches and hidden agendas! Each presentation is light, relevant to geo-something and only 10minutes long.
Speakers:
Anton van Wyk – Psychology of UAV Pilot
Bernhard Jenny – Scale Adaptive Web Projections
Henry Walshaw – Creating a QGIS plugin in 10 mins!
Warwick Wilson – DELWP Spatial Metadata
Mohsen Kalantari – Automatic reconstruction of 3d indoor models
More to be announced soon!
If you have a great geo-spatial idea that you would like to share with a group of like minded people, we want you! Contact the GeoRabble committee asap to express your interesting topic in 20words or less, or email your idea to melbourne@georabble.org
A very special thanks to our Sponsor Hexagon Geospatial – Ignite Competition without whom we couldn’t run this event and provide food to everyone …
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC:http://www.opengeospatial.org/) will host its ‘Technical Committee’ meeting in Australia. To celebrate this event, GeoRabble is joining forces with the OGC, to bring you a special ‘OGC-o-Rabble’ session on Monday 30 November, from 5:30 PM at the Swanson Hotel.
Pizza courtesy of Jacobs
We are proud to have secured an awesome program for the evening. A mix of Ozzie and International speakers, a return by popular demand of our Geo-Trivia, and of course the opportunity to mingle and network over drinks, free pizza (thanks to Jacobs‘ generous sponsoring) at an iconic Aussie venue.
Scott Simmons, the Executive Director of the Standards Program for the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), will share his experience on leading a consensus process to develop location-related standards.
Dr Carl Reed, recently retired as the Chief Technology Officer and an Executive Director of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), he will tell us “How to speak fair dinkum Spatial”, sharing with us an American’s first introduction to speaking Strayan that will go into serious thanks to Aussie contributions to spatial technology and the spatial industry.
RogerLott, Chairman of the IOGP (International Association of Oil and Gas Producers) Geodesy Subcommittee will talk about the importance of the new version of well-known text (WKT) for describing coordinate reference system definitions that has recently been developed jointly by OGC and ISO.
Tim Leigh, GeoRabble co-founder and Principal Consultant at Scalable Solutions, will tell us about “The internet of things, why should I care”.
Richard Lemon, the Spatial Section Manager & Practice Leader for Imagery & Aerial Survey from Jacobs, will talk about using flying ambulances, aerial images and addressee databases to help saving lives in Australia.
David Turner, a GIS engineer responsible for a sustainable transport at the City of Sydney, will talk about “Making numbers flow using Gephi”. David will show and inspire how to make nice looking maps using an open source visualisation platform.
Rhys Bittner, Hexagon Geospatial Business Development Manager, will present an open platform based on open data and OGC web services. He will also announce a “new developer competition” with 1st prize US$100,000 2nd prize US$50,000 and many other prizes!
Jacqui Kennedy has spent the last two years on the road visiting and photographing “Big Things of Australia” and will share with us photos and places that you have never seen!!
Don’t forget to register. It is always a free event, but we need to know numbers for catering purposes.
The Christmas season is fast approaching and GeoRabble Brisbane is having its next event on Tuesday the 8th of December. We’d like to invite you all to celebrate the Christmas season the spatial way at the Pig N Whistle (Riverside).
We have confirmed four speakers …
Brett Leavey – is bringing his Aboriginal cultural heritage app on an Oculus Rift device
Jonathan Corcoran – Jonathan is an Associate Professor at UQ School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management. He’ll be discussing some analysis he’s been doing on smart cards (GoCards) – visualising the effect of weather on bus transit in Brisbane.
Matthew Fry – Constantly evolving societal expectations of technology have pushed the use of spatial applications into areas not traditionally seen as being part of the spatial fabric. Matthew will present on one of these new areas, tagged GeoDesign, where urban developers and landscape architects meet head on with spatial technologies to deliver interactive models for public use.
Tim Foresman – Tim is a world leader in the spatial industry and is currently the SIBA Chair in Spatial Information at QUT. Having previously worked with organisations such as NASA, the U.S. EPA and the UN, Tim will be coming along to GeoRabble to share his knowledge and insights into innovation and the creation of a spatial industry cluster for Brisbane.
If you are new to the format then this is what you can expect:
Official event time is 6:00-8:00pm
People tend to arrive anytime from about 5:00
Some food platters courtesy of our sponsor (SSSI) at about 6:15
Two 10-minute talks 6:30-6:50
More food platters courtesy of our sponsor (SSSI) at about 6:50
Prize draws at 7:10
Final Speaker at 7:20
Don’t forget, we are always interested in hearing about what is new and exciting in spatial! If you’d like to speak at an event, let the organisers know what you think the GeoRabble could learn from you. We are keen to receive any and all “abstracts” or draft slides for you talk idea, so just make contact with your nearest GeoRabble organiser of choice.
Call for Prizes
To help spread the Xmas cheer if there are any organisations and individuals who would like to donate a prize for some random draws during the night then please let us know what you would like to bring. Bottles of wine are always popular, but we like to have a variety, and do not like to place a cap your generosity. Donors are announced as their prizes are about to be drawn, and are encouraged to present them, and be photographed with the winners (who must be present to collect).
The Christmas Brisbane GeoRabble is sponsored by …
To celebrate this event, GeoRabble is joining forces with the OGC, to bring you a special ‘OGC-o-Rabble’ session on Monday 30 November, from 5:30 PM at the Swanson Hotel.
As always GeoRabble will be free for everyone including OGC attendees, GeoRabblers and anyone else interested in spatial technology.
This will be a unique opportunity for the international OGC community and the Sydney geo-community to get to know each other, mingle and network over drinks, free pizza (thanks to Jacobs‘ generous sponsoring) at an iconic Aussie venue.
Pizza courtesy of Jacobs
We want to hear your stories of international and Australian uses of spatial technology, so we are calling for speakers who can hold a short (up to 10 minute) talk about their international geo-experience, or about something typically Australian that would enlighten our foreign visitors (Croc-tracking anyone?)
Postcodes are evil vs The Rise of Real Time mapping
Register here for your tickets so we can order enough Pizza for everyone.
We are still accepting speaker ideas so if you have a #PetGeoPeeves or #PetGeoLoves that you’d like to share in a 10 min presentation send your ideas to sydney@georabble.org.
Spring in Perth brought a record local crowd of 120 Georabblers together to talk about “The Rise of the Machines”. For the first time we were joined by a few more via a (more or less) live telecast on Periscope.
The always original David Brady dusted-off his MC hat for the night to introduce the speaker line-up to talk about life in a post Lake Maid drone world, and the reality of training computer algorithms as well as humans. The Georabble Perth team give a call out to NGIS Australia and Landgate – WALIS for feeding and watering a hungry group of Rabblers.
We kicked-off with Matt Barrett with a “Game of Drones” – covering a lot of ground as you can with drones for utilities. That got the Rabblers and friends talking about everything drone –from piloting to farming.
Piers Higgs, resplendent in a (way too) clean and crisp Maps WA uniform talked about the Good, the Bad and the Ugly drone pilots. Piers had plenty of material to work with on why mixing amateur model plane pilots, drones and fires are such a bad idea. The Georabble Perth team give a second call out to get involved in the Maps WA volunteer team – ping mapswa@dfes.wa.gov.au to get in touch.
Fedja Hadzic, the guy with the best job title in the room – Inventor – walked us through about how he’s training computer algorithms to explore big data, including coming-up with the right questions to ask so we don’t wait centuries to get “42”.
Robert Lednor picked-up the Drones thread again – attempting to explore “not just the cool stuff”. Lucky for our Rabblers it’s hard to make geo un-cool – so Robert just kept exploring.
We wrapped up Georabble #14 with Mark Taylor on the Certainty of Uncertainty – kicking off with a visual geo-quiz on some pretty ancient hardware and challenging us to think about who uses what we create and what they really need.
A couple of newbies discovered us via Twitter on #georabbleper. We hope see you all again, with your friends at Georabble Perth #15 on GIS Day – Wednesday, November 18, 2015. Stay tuned via #georabbleper for more info soon.
The #PetGeoPeeves & #PetGeoLoves are coming through thick and fast with a great range of ideas and discussions points worthy of beer and pizza at the next GeoRabble Sydney on Oct the 1st – register for free here
From the rise of maps as fashion, thank you Open Street Map, to tracking pick-ups on Uber to spleen venting on KMZ’s as the new PDF’s and let’s not forget the frustrating inconsistencies in data.
If you have a pet geo peeve or love, big or small, send through your ideas to sydney@georabble.org and share your burden or pleasure with a great crew of like minded GeoRabblers.
Also keep the twitter conversation going by using the #PetGeoPeeves & #PetGeoLoves tags.
GeoRabble has always been about personal stories and having fun. So at the next GeoRabble on October the 1st at the Occidental Hotel starting at 6pm, we want to hear humorous outpourings on geo pet peeves and loves.
If you bemoan the mass adoptions of hexabins, the misuse of projections or love the way maps online have evolved to become the must have visualisation everywhere, this GeoRabble is for you.
We want spleen venting, expression of adoration, letters of complaints and contented purring on any topic big or small. For balance we are aiming for 3 presenters on each side of the spectrum.
Oh… and for an extra bit of fun for this GeoRabble we have added an extra rule to the standard rules, you have to start your presentation with a geo related joke!
Here is a one of our favourites
How do geographers meet their husband or wife?
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They Datum!
Keep an eye out on twitter as we start the stream of ideas using the hashtags #PetGeoPeeves & #PetGeoLoves and join in the conversation. The best ones we will share at GeoRabble on the big screen.
Looking forward to sharing your stories, beers, pizzas and geo jokes.
Piers Higgs – Drones – the good, the bad, and the ugly – an all hazards perspective
Robert Lednor – Applications of drones (not just the cool stuff)
Mark Taylor – Certainty of uncertainty
Date: Wednesday, 9th September, 2015 Time: Doors open 5:30pm, Presentations from 6:00 pm Location: Universal Bar, 221 William St, Northbridge 6003 Format: A handful speakers, 10 mins each, usual rules. Registration: Attendance is free, but for catering purposes we need you to register!
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