The Rabble is back in Sydney with drinks, free Pizza and geo-talks. Join us Thursday 11 April at the Occidental Hotel. Doors open 5:30 PM for a 6PM start.
Registrations are now open here: http://georabblesydney6.eventbrite.com.au/#
Or join our Meetup Group: http://www.meetup.com/GeoRabble-Sydney/
Esri are running a coding competition, with the challenge being to write a fully-functional JavaScript map using a maximum of 100 lines of code.
I love this idea, as it’s the functional equivalent of a good GeoRabble talk – cut the crap and get straight to the point. Even better, they’re using GitHub to manage the entries, which makes each entry public so other people can learn from it. The full details of the competition are at https://github.com/Esri/100-lines-or-less-js
I decided to give it a go – my entry is available here.
In order to make it Australian-focussed, I wanted to use the BOM’s climate datasets. Unfortunately I don’t think there’s an easy way to obtain this data, so I wrote a Python script to scrape the data from the site. I’m not sure of the legality of this, but my conscience is clear as it’s just an automated way of getting to publicly accessible information. Hopefully they feel the same way…
Once I had downloaded the information, I made a point featureclass from it, and served it out via ArcGIS Server. My entry is basically a wrapper to make it easy to find weather stations and see their historical records. A link underneath the charts takes your directly to that weather station’s data feed. This is arguably easier and more intuitive than having to look up a station number, as at http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data
I’d love to add more functionality, but I’m already dangerously close to the 100 line limit. Please let me know of any feedback.
Cheers,
Steve (@stephenlead)
“Imagine if the whole human race had been looking through one eye for all of our existence and, all of a sudden, scientists gave us the ability to open up a second eye. You’re not just getting more information, more data; you’re literally getting a whole new dimension. You’re getting depth and perspective, 3D vision. That’s what Big Data is, not simply more information but a new way to see or extract meaning from a sea of information. Simply put, Big Data is giving us a brand new way to see things.”
Date: 23 April, 2013
Time: Doors open 5:30pm, Presentations from 6:00 pm
Location:
Rubix Bar & Cafe
334 Murray Street
Perth
Format: A handful speakers, 10 mins each, usual rules.
Registration: Attendance is free, but for catering purposes we need you to register!
We can’t hold these events without the help of the greater Geocommunity, so if you want to get involved let us know! This event brought to you by the Perth GeoRabble team and Landgate
The Rabble is back in Sydney with drinks, free Pizza and geo-talks. Join us Thursday 11 April at the Occidental Hotel. Doors open 5:30 PM for a 6PM start. Registrations will open soon!
We are looking for interesting, entertaining, or downright geeky speakers. If you have something you want to share, and can do it within 10 minutes, then please let us know at sydney@georabble.org!
We have a bio and talk description for one of the previously announced speakers for GeoRabble Brisbane #3 (follow this link to register) on Tuesday 23 April 2016 6:00-8:00pm
According to an unnamed admirer:
“Andy Stewart will be well known to many as one of the Senior Spatial Information officers at Department of Natural Resources. He has played a key role in a number of high profile projects involving both remote sensing and web-mapping applications. His current role sees him leading the existing client mapping services within Queensland government towards a Web 2.0 approach.
He has played a key role in responding to the natural disasters that have occurred across Queensland over the past couple of years, most recently the flooding that occurred in Bundaberg. This devastating event enabled the valuable lessons learned after 2011 with Cyclone Yasi to be put into action to enable rapid response to the needs of those needing accurate flood maps that were both quickly generated but also importantly, accurate. Andy will pass on some of the lessons learned and that were put into action.
Andy tells us that he is a former Snow Skiing Instructor and qualified Adventure Racing and Triathlon Coach, who has represented Australia and finished the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon. Therefore he will be in unfamiliar territory attending an event in a bar, but we have assured him of a friendly audience. “
Co-sponsored by GIS Recruitment and AAM
Exciting news! The Perth GeoRabble crew are busy preparing to host two GeoRabble events in the next two months. “WHAT?? They’re Crazy!” I hear you exclaim…. Challenge Accepted.
We get regularly asked if we can help people organise a Rabble in their own location.
It’s easy! To help explain the concept, the rules, and provide some tips & tricks, we have recently updated our “GeoRabble Manifesto”.
Find it below, or download it here.
rab·ble /ˈrabəl/ (n) A mob, the masses, the common people
The upstairs bar at the Leederville Hotel was the home of GeoRabble for December 6th and an open floor brought the best out of the Rabble. Free flowing commentary on data, software, open-source, employment, data silos and hardware saw Santa’s wish-list grow ever longer. Chants of “Free the Data!” and “Open source is the only way!” could be heard in between support for an unnamed GIS software and a certain state government data initiative (oh, and lots of “Rabble, Rabble!”).
We’d like to thank this event’s sponsor Geoimage for the support, venue and pizza. The best organisers can’t predict where an unscripted open microphone event will head, but this one stayed interesting to the end. Beers finished, wine swilled, pizza demolished, GeoRabble 4 was a 5 star success.
GeoRabble www.georabble.org happens in various locations around Australia, is free and open to anyone, but frequently sells out. If you would like to talk at a future Perth GeoRabble event, please send and email with the title and a short description to perth@georabble.org.
Brisbane is joining the GeoRabble Christmas fun happening across the country during the first week of December. After the announcement of events in Sydney and Perth, we felt Brisbane couldn’t miss out and will be holding our Christmas event at the Platform Bar of the Grand Central Hotel (beneath Central Station) on the 4th December.
Please register to attend bit.ly/Georabble_Xmas
The main aim of the evening is to get together and have some fun, make some new friends and reconnect with existing friends. We will have some 10 minute presentations with our first speaker being Mr Wil Waters!
Wil was lucky enough to spend the past year on secondment in Cambodia working with Engineers Without Borders helping improve the GIS capabilities supporting the urban poor settlements. With support of Open Street Map and projects such as Mango Map, Wil will talk about how his experience can help others wanting to give back to areas less fortunate.
We will be adding further speakers over the coming days, and hope to have a fun and enjoyable evening. Anyone who attended our first GeoRabble Brisbane can pass on what an enjoyable evening it was, and we hope that this Christmas event will live up to that evening. We hope to see many new faces.
See you there!
“What Geo-Gift I want Santa to bring me this year”
Join us for GeoRabble Christmas Drinks on Thursday 6 December, at the Occidental Hotel in Sydney. (5:30 for a 6PM start, please RSVP so we can plan catering)
Co-hosts for the evening are the NSW Government 2.0 Community of Practice, and with them, we are proud to introduce our first ever international speaker Julian Carver from New Zealand, who will talk on: “A City to Rebuild – how spatial data sharing is supporting the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery”.
Julian is one of New Zealand’s most respected OpenGov and Opendata specialists. In 2011, Julian worked with the Data and Information Reuse Secretariat to design the Open and Transparent Government Declaration. He is a spokesperson to government for Open NZ (an organisation representing the open data community) and has chaired conferences including Open Government (June 2010), Smart Government (March 2011), and Web Oriented Government (October 2011).
From April 2011 – June
2012 Julian led the establishment of information services at the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA), as acting Chief Information Officer. He then went on to lead GIS, data, and digital communications for the Christchurch Central Development Unit, for the launch of the Christchurch Central Recovery Plan.
Other than Julian’s, there will be no formal presentations this time. Instead we will have an open mike, and invite Rabblers to talk for 2 minutes about what Geo-Gift they’d like Santa to bring them this year. Other than that, it will be the usual mix of celebrating all things geo, networking and having a good time!
And in another GeoRabble first, we have a parallel event run the same evening by our friends from GeoRabble Perth
As usual, this is a free event, including free pizza (courtesy of OMNILINK). Places are limited, so do register here, or join our MeetUp Group to avoid missing out!
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