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Program for GeoRabble Sydney & Prizes to be won – Don’t forget to register!

24/04/2015 GeoRabble Leave a comment

We are proud to announce a great line-up of speakers for GeoRabble Sydney, Thursday 30 April, from 6PM at the Occidental Hotel:

Krissie Auld (Office of the Environment and Heritage) – “Open OEH”
Maurits van der Vlugt (Mercury Project Solutions)- “Mythbusters: what makes data Authoritative?”
Warren Gardiner (Council of Social Services of NSW) – “An Open Data Journey from PDF to web maps”
Francisco Urbina (Esri Australia) – “Location Intelligence in NSW”
Paul Farrell (NGIS Australia)
Damian Carroll (Airbus) – “An Open Access Imagery Licence – the NZ Experience”

Also, there will be a ‘StreetView guessing game’, with great prizes!

Remember: GeoRabble is free to attend, as is the Pizza, courtesy of Pitney Bowes, who are sponsoring this event!

Don’t forget to register here, or join our Meetup group.

Blog, Sydney

First Speaker confirmed for GeoRabble Sydney and Invitation to Rabblers for your stories

15/04/2015 GeoRabble Leave a comment

Our first GeoRabble Sydney for 2015 is all systems go with registration coming in fast.

It is a great sign that the topic of Open GeoSpatial Data is something that resonates with many of us and impacts the work that we do.

Which why it is great that we have Krissie Auld from the Office of Environment and Heritage talking about ‘Open OEH’ and with OEH being such a huge generator and custodian of spatial data it will be great to hear about their efforts.

We are confirming more speakers but still have room for a few more, so if you have a story on the success, uses, failure, frustrations or just want to highlight your dramas with trying to get access to open geospatial data, this is the forum for you.

Submit your short description to sydney@georabble.org and remember that your presentation is limited to 10 minutes to make sure the heart of your message is delivered

Don’t forget to register here, or join our Meetup group!

If you just want to share your story on the use of geo in your day to day experience feel free to submit as well as we are always looking for fun, interesting and surprising geo related presentations

Looking forward to sharing a great night with you all.

Blog, Sydney

Here comes the 1st GeoRabble Sydney of 2015!! Call for speakers!

24/03/2015 GeoRabble Leave a comment

Thursday 30^th of April – Save the date!!

source: http://www.uitp.org/action-points-benefits-open-data

We are happy to announce that our 1^st GeoRabble Sydney event for the year 2015, will be held at the Occidental Hotel, on the 30^th of April, at 6:00pm! We are very excited to see you again, to hear your new stories and new experiences and share the knowledge in a relaxed and pleasant environment, full of Geo-enthusiasts!

There is always a call for speakers and for this event we would like to explore: “Uses and Users of Open Geo-Spatial Data”.

So, do you use open geo-spatial data? What are you using it for? Where can you find it? Do you have any tricks or tips?

Submit your short description to sydney@georabble.org. Talks are limited to 10 minutes.

Registrations are now open: register here, or join our Meetup group!

Perth

The mix bag that is Perth’s 12th Georabble

20/02/2015 GeoRabble Leave a comment

Calling all “sandgropers”, Georabble returns to Perth in 2015 starting with a mix bag of the interesting, the fascinating and the informative. Come join us on the 4th of March 2015 at Universal Bar (221 William Street) in Northbridge, kicking off at 5:30pm with networking. Talks start at 6pm. Register and grab yourself a free ticket while mixing with friends and geospatial peers, sharing stories and laughs free from the vendor rhetoric. Each presentation is light, relevant to geo-something and only 10 minutes long. More speakers to be announced soon although already on the line up are:

Dr Ori Gudes: I tell health stories with maps
Lainey Weiser: Taking technology and entrepreneurship into high schools
Erik Champion: 3D platforms can help preserve our Australian heritage

Registrations now open go to Eventbrite to grab your ticket! We are calling for more guest speakers – if you have a 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 perth@georabble.org A very special thanks to our local GIS experts NGIS who is sponsoring this event which we couldn’t run nor provide food to everyone without.

Events, Melbourne

GeoRabble Melbourne # 6 has been announced!

08/02/2015 GeoRabble Leave a comment

GeoRabble returns to Melbourne on Tuesday 24th February 2015 at a new Venue (Royal Melbourne Hotel, 629 Bourke St, Melbourne). Networking drinks 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.

Our confirmed speakers are:

Mark Garvey: Crisis leadership and mapping teams – A top 10 list of coping strategies
Anthony Burgon: Mapping and bushfire management in Victoria
Carlos Zelada: Discussion of UAV
Steve Bennett from the Open Knowledge Foundation – Open Spatial Data @stevage1

Registrations now open go to Eventbrite to grab your ticket!

We are calling for more guest speakers – if you have a 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 GeoAwesome DMS sponsor without whom we couldn’t run this event and provide food to everyone.

Blog, Sydney

GeoRabble Sydney, 10 December: Talks, Pizza, Jobseeker Pitchfest

12/11/2014 GeoRabble Leave a comment

GeoRabble Sydney is back, and we are happy to announce our first set of speakers! Hexagon Geospatial

Join us Wednesday 10 December at the Paragon Hotel (Velvet Lounge) in Sydney’s CBD from 5:30 PM for Classic GeoRabble talks, a Jobseeker Pitchfest (more about that below), and of course our famous free Pizza (courtesy of Hexagon Geospatial)! GeoRabble is free, to be there, join our Meetup group, or register here.

The final Speaker Line-up is:

Daniel Kruimel – “Every Cloud has a Spatial Lining”
Jayson Ward – “Oz Spotting: Media Arts and Mobile”
Alex Cowdery – “Spatial marketing, which company am I”, an interactive Game for all.
James Shepherd – “Needle in a Hakea stack: locating Aboriginal rock shelter sites in dense vegetation”
Rebecca Paget & David James – “Reinventing Neighbourhoods through Hyperlocal Technology & Babysitting”
Maria Xygkaki – “Santa uses GIS: Spatial Analysis for the gift distribution”

New to this event is our Jobseeker Pitchfest: where people looking for (new) opportunities have 3 minutes to get on stage and tell the Rabble why they’d be foolish to hire anyone else!

As always: GeoRabble is a free event, for GeoGeeks to celebrate, share and network. However, for catering purposes, we do need you to Register. You can join our Meetup group, or register here.

Hope to see you all on the 10th!

Blog, Sydney

Heads-up for GeoRabble Sydney’s Xmas party!

28/10/2014 GeoRabble Leave a comment

To all you Sydney Rabblers: we are coming back with an awesome Christmas party event in early December.

Stay tuned for the exact date & location, to be announced shortly. In the meantime: if you have any 2014 (success) stories to share, or have a great idea for 2015 or beyond, drop us a line now on sydney@georabble.org.

More news to follow: watch this space!

Events, Perth

Geo”Retro” Rabble – Perth 11

03/10/2014 GeoRabble Leave a comment

Taking a look at the past for this rabble!

Speakers:

Lise Summers
Val McDuff
Nicholas Flett

plus more to be announced soon!

Date: 15th October, 2014
Time: Doors open 5:30pm, Presentations from 6:00 pm
Location: Universal Bar, William St, Northbridge

Format: A handful speakers, 10 mins each, usual rules.

Registration: Attendance is free, but for catering purposes we need you to register!

Follow @georabble on twitter or use the hashtag #georabbleper to join the conversation

We can’t hold these events without the help of the greater Geocommunity!

This event brought to you by the Perth GeoRabble team and sponsored by Hexagon Geospatial

Blog, Tasmania

GeoRabble Tas #3 – Post-Event Writeup

29/09/2014 GeoRabble Leave a comment

The third GeoRabble Tas event was held on Thursday the 25th of September and we had a record 61 people register to attend. The event was held upstairs at The Republic Bar in Hobart and was sponsored by Lester Franks (thanks again, LF).

Presenters were excellent as usual. Presenters and presentations were as follows:

Arko Lucieer spoke about the efforts of Terra Luma, which is a group organised out of UTAS that are researching unmanned aircraft system (UAS) applications. He spoke about the difference between airborne LiDAR, structure from motion and their work comparing the two techniques, as well as a number of specific applications of UAS as a data capture platform.
Adrian Fairfield, from Cohen and Associates, then spoke about projects that their platform had been working on, including capturing ortho-imagery across coastlines and other inhospitable areas.
James Head-Mears showed us all the fancy close range point-cloud creation tools that Lester Franks use in order to capture a variety of data for a variety of applications, and he showed us the process of reverse engineering an army truck.
Finally, Simon Allen wowed us with a great talk on getting results, with his SWAMP, or Shallow Water Autonomous Mapping Platform. The SWAMP is a robot boat, created with a few thousand dollars worth of off-the-shelf hardware, which was used to collect ground-truth or training data for a cloud-based machine learning algorithm, which then estimates the depth of the entire Derwent Estuary! (I think that’s it in a nutshell…) His more important point was that often a lot of time is spent developing the perfect solution to a problem, while it is often just fine to build an imperfect solution that might just work even better. It fits well into my little philosophy of ‘perfection is the enemy of the good.’

In summation, a lot of interest was piqued, some delicious food consumed and lots of catch-up occurred. It will happen again, soon, and so I’ll see you there at the next GeoRabble Tas.

– Alex

Blog, Sydney

GeoRabble Sydney Wrap-Up

22/07/2014 GeoRabble Leave a comment

Last Thursday July 17^th, a large crowd of Geo-enthusiasts gathered at the Occidental Hotel in Sydney for a long overdue evening of GeoRabble, Beer & Pizza (thanks to Hexagon Geospatial).

We had a great, eclectic and diverse line-up of speakers, under the capable and entertaining management of MC for the night Francisco Urbina.

GeoRabble Sydney crowd (photo: Maurits van der Vlugt)

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