Hi John Thanks for this reportage . It sounded really successful. Cheers
Emma Hain > On 26 Mar 2021, at 13:33, John Bryant <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Oceania mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania
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