*tl;dr* - The OpenAustralia Foundation (Australia’s open data, open government and civic hacking charity that uses Rails<https://github.com/openaustralia/planningalerts-app>and Ruby <https://github.com/openaustralia/openaustralia-parser> extensively<https://github.com/openaustralia/planningalerts-parsers>) is running a hackfest next weekend, sign up at https://oa-hackfest.eventbrite.com/
~~~~ Come and join Henare, Tim and Matthew in their basement, er.. we mean Google Sydney<http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Google+Sydney,+48+Pirrama+Road+Pyrmont,+New+South+Wales+2009+Australia&hl=en&ll=-33.866995,151.195908&spn=0.121298,0.264187&sll=-33.904362,151.147002&sspn=0.48498,1.056747&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=13&iwloc=A>, for an *awesome weekend of hacking*. It’s all a bit last minute. What’s the worst that happens? Nobody turns up and the three of us spend the weekend hacking. That’s okay too. However, it would be much more *fun if you came too*! We’ve got a couple of quick talks lined up to warm you up and give you some inspiration, then a full weekend dedicated to hacking on everything OpenAustralia. *Come along and learn, share and build interesting things* in and around open data, open government and civic hacking. Want to reboot OpenAustralia.org <http://www.openaustralia.org/> by fixing the scraper? How about some finishing touches to Election Leaflets<http://www.electionleaflets.org.au/>to monitor future Australian elections? Or do you want to learn how to help tens of thousands of people get PlanningAlerts<http://www.planningalerts.org.au/>by writing a simple scraper (anyone can do it!)? *Then register here*: *https://oa-hackfest.eventbrite.com/* This event will be hosted at Google Sydney<http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Google+Sydney,+48+Pirrama+Road+Pyrmont,+New+South+Wales+2009+Australia&hl=en&ll=-33.866995,151.195908&spn=0.121298,0.264187&sll=-33.904362,151.147002&sspn=0.48498,1.056747&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=13&iwloc=A>next weekend *the 10th and 11th of September*, here’s our plan for the weekend: Saturday 11:30 – Doors open 12:00 – Introduction and housekeeping 12:15 – The Gears That Power the Tubes of OpenAustralia – *Matthew Landauer* 12:30 – An Introduction to Guerrilla Data Liberation with ScraperWiki – *Henare Degan* 12:45 – Let the hacking begin 18:00 – We’ll order pizzas with anyone interested 22:00 – Doors close Sunday 11:30 – Doors open / Let the hacking begin 16:00 – Stop hacking, start presentations – show us what you’ve build, fixed or learnt! 18:00 – Doors close, optional beers at the pub Google are kindly supplying the venue, power and WiFi so all you need to do is bring along your notebook, some snacks to keep you hacking through the day and pizza money if you’re a hungry hacker come Saturday evening. Sign up to the OpenAustralia Community mailing list<http://groups.google.com/group/openaustralia-dev>if you have any questionsand don’t forget to tag your tweets <https://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23oahack>, photos<https://secure.flickr.com/photos/tags/oahack/>, etc. #oahack Cheers, *Henare, Matthew and Tim OpenAustralia Foundation volunteers* -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
