As the main person who organises and runs the Open Source Developers' Club
in Melbourne, I'm very happy to lend you my full support in getting
something like this off the ground. It may even be possible to provide
hosting under the http://www.osdc.com.au/ domain if that would be of
interest ( I don't run the server though, so we'd have to check first ).
OSDClub meetings run every two months in Melbourne, being hosted
alternately by Melbourne PHP Users Group and Melbourne Perl Mongers
instead of their regular monthly meeting (this means that each group is
only inconvenienced 3 times each year). We invite attendance from LUV and
LUV's programmer SIG, from the Perl, PHP and Python mailing lists, and
also from from related parties such as Melbourne LinuxChix, SAGE-Vic the
MySQL meetup, OSIA and past OSD-Conference attendees. Of course, we also
invite attendees to bring along others too. We've had no shortage of
talks to suit such a wide set of interests. You can see our previous
topics at:
http://www.osdc.com.au/osdclub/
Some of you have probably even seen some of these presented in Sydney.
Of course it helps to know that we always have a location in which to
hold such meetings, and that may be your biggest challenge.
A few months ago Stennie, from Sydney Perl Mongers, collected a list of
various technology user groups in Sydney. This list can be found here:
http://perl.net.au/wiki/Sydney
If any that you know about are missing, please feel free to add them. I
hope that this list will be of help when you start inviting people to your
first meeting. In fact, you may even find that one or more of these
groups are willing to provide hosting for the meeting in the same way that
we do in Melbourne.
All the best,
Jacinta
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