Something for the Melburnians - an OpenAustralia hackfest. Recommended for any who are interested in open government, politics, and open source :)
Saturday Sept 26th (the date's not listed in the emails below, need to click through to the sign up link). -- Pat Begin forwarded message: > From: Henare Degan <henare.de...@gmail.com> > Date: 11 September 2009 5:29:08 AM GMT+02:00 > To: openaustralia-...@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Melbourne’s first OpenAustralia hackfest > Reply-To: openaustralia-...@googlegroups.com > > Melbourne OpenAustralians - where are you?! Whilst the hackfest > invite has only been up for a couple of days, just 5 signed up is > poor showing indeed - us Sydneysiders had ten times that amount! :) > > Remember you don't need to be a software hacker to come along, if > you're a user or just a fan you're also welcome to come along and > discuss OpenAustralia and related projects. If you can't make it > send the invite to your friends, Facebook or Twitter about it > (hashtag #oahm09 - OpenAustralia Hackfest Melbourne 2009). > > C'mon Melbourne - you can do better that this! Sign up now: > http://anyvite.com/tz0xufzhxh > > Cheers, > > Henare > Chief interstate-capital-rivalry-generator > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 21:14, Henare Degan > <hen...@openaustralia.org> wrote: > OpenAustralia.org, Australia’s first eDemocracy website, would like to > invite its friends, fans and volunteers to its first Melbourne > hackfest. > > The first OpenAustralia hackfest[0], held in Sydney in June, was a big > success, attracting 50 volunteers. We worked on solving existing > problems as well as starting new OpenAustralia projects including a > mobile version of OpenAustralia. > > We’re happy to announce that several of the founders of OpenAustralia > will be making the trip to Melbourne so you can talk to them about the > project, put forward your own ideas, and get to work right away! > > If you’re a software hacker, you can dive in and work on bugs, pick an > item from the wishlist and start creating a new feature, or work on > just about anything you’d like to to improve or extend OpenAustralia. > The sky’s the limit! > > If you’re a fan or user of OpenAustralia and you’re not technically > minded, fear not! Websites don’t get better without people USING them > and TESTING them to give us ideas on how to improve! If you’re a > journalist or someone who really loves statistics and databases, help > us by coming up with crazy searches that push the limits of what > OpenAustralia can do! > > ThoughtWorks[1] is kindly hosting the hackfest, which kicks off at 12 > noon and will go until 5pm. Please note you’ll need to bring your own > laptop. A ThoughtWorks volunteer will meet hackfest attendees at 12 > sharp to let them in the building, so please be on time. > > Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you think might > be interested – but note that due to the size of the room, we won’t be > able to accept more than 30 people for this event. > > RSVP[2] by Wednesday, 23 September please, so we can arrange nametags. > > We look forward to working with you to make our democracy a little > more open! > > From the OpenAustralia team. > > [0] > http://blog.openaustralia.org/2009/06/15/inaugural-openaustralia-hackfest-was-terrific/ > [1] http://www.thoughtworks.com.au/ > [2] http://anyvite.com/tz0xufzhxh > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
