tl;dr - The OpenAustralia Foundation (Australia’s open data, open government and civic hacking charity that produces and uses free software extensively) is running a hackfest this weekend, sign up at https://oa-hackfest.eventbrite.com/
~~~~ Come and join Henare, Tim and Matthew in their basement, er.. we mean Google Sydney, 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 by fixing the scraper? How about some finishing touches to Election Leaflets to monitor future Australian elections? Or do you want to learn how to help tens of thousands of people get PlanningAlerts 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 this 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 if you have any questions and don’t forget to tag your tweets, photos, etc. #oahack Cheers, Henare, Matthew and Tim OpenAustralia Foundation volunteers -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
