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GeoRabble Brisbane #3 – forget the rumours!

You heard it here first!

We sometimes like to surprise on the night but we already have two fine co-sponsors for GeoRabble Brisbane #3 on Tuesday 23rd April – namely GIS Recruitment and AAM – and six people who have offered to present at this GeoRabble or next!

The speakers, subject to final negotiations on topic and beer, and in no particular order, are:

• Bill Kitson
• Deb Polson
• Ben Somerville
• Andy Stewart
• Andrew Saad
• Phil Punter

More details to come on their talk titles but Location Based Games is among them.

If you’ve not signed up yet follow this link to score one of the remaining FREE tickets.

GeoRabble Perth #5, A new year, A new Rabble.

GeoRabble 5 – We hope there aren’t any pitchforks or burning torches

Exciting news! The Perth GeoRabble crew are busy preparing to host two GeoRabble events in the next two months. “WHAT?? They’re Crazy!” I hear you exclaim…. Challenge Accepted.

GeoRabble Brisbane #3 returns to Pig N Whistle!

Just before ANZAC day, GeoRabble Brisbane returns to the Pig N Whistle (Riverside) on Tuesday, 23^rd April 2013.

The speaker line up is yet to be finalised so, if you have a story bursting to be told, let us know ASAP, and we may be able to give you the stage for 10 minutes of fame!

Tickets are “selling” fast over at Eventbrite so secure yours now!

Start your own Rabble

We get regularly asked if we can help people organise a Rabble in their own location.

It’s easy! To help explain the concept, the rules, and provide some tips & tricks, we have recently updated our “GeoRabble Manifesto”.

Find it below, or download it here.

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GeoRabble #4 Perth – A Riot Wrap

Tom, praying to the Spatial Gods that someone will take the Microphone from him

rab·ble  /ˈrabəl/ (n) A mob, the masses, the common people

The Crowd warming up

The upstairs bar at the Leederville Hotel was the home of GeoRabble for December 6th and an open floor brought the best out of the Rabble. Free flowing commentary on data, software, open-source, employment, data silos and hardware saw Santa’s wish-list grow ever longer. Chants of “Free the Data!” and “Open source is the only way!” could be heard in between support for an unnamed GIS software and a certain state government data initiative (oh, and lots of “Rabble, Rabble!”).

Nic, like a deer caught in the headlights

We’d like to thank this event’s sponsor Geoimage for the support, venue and pizza. The best organisers can’t predict where an unscripted open microphone event will head, but this one stayed interesting to the end. Beers finished, wine swilled, pizza demolished, GeoRabble 4 was a 5 star success.

GeoRabble www.georabble.org happens in various locations around Australia, is free and open to anyone, but frequently sells out.  If you would like to talk at a future Perth GeoRabble event, please send and email with the title and a short description to perth@georabble.org.

This event’s sponsor – Geoimage

GeoRabble Brisbane #2 Joins Xmas GeoRiot

Brisbane is joining the GeoRabble Christmas fun happening across the country during the first week of December. After the announcement of events in Sydney and Perth, we felt Brisbane couldn’t miss out and will be holding our Christmas event at the Platform Bar of the Grand Central Hotel (beneath Central Station) on the 4th December.

Please register to attend bit.ly/Georabble_Xmas

The main aim of the evening is to get together and have some fun, make some new friends and reconnect with existing friends. We will have some 10 minute presentations with our first speaker being Mr Wil Waters!

Wil was lucky enough to spend the past year on secondment in Cambodia working with Engineers Without Borders helping improve the GIS capabilities supporting the urban poor settlements. With support of Open Street Map and projects such as Mango Map, Wil will talk about how his experience can help others wanting to give back to areas less fortunate.

We will be adding further speakers over the coming days, and hope to have a fun and enjoyable evening. Anyone who attended our first GeoRabble Brisbane can pass on what an enjoyable evening it was, and we hope that this Christmas event will live up to that evening. We hope to see many new faces.

See you there!

GeoRabble Sydney: Xmas drinks & Open Mike

“What Geo-Gift I want Santa to bring me this year”

Join us for GeoRabble Christmas Drinks on Thursday 6 December, at the Occidental Hotel in Sydney. (5:30 for a 6PM start, please RSVP so we can plan catering)

Co-hosts for the evening are the NSW Government 2.0 Community of Practice, and with them, we are proud to introduce our first ever international speaker Julian Carver from New Zealand, who will talk on: “A City to Rebuild – how spatial data sharing is supporting the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery”.

Julian is one of New Zealand’s most respected OpenGov and Opendata specialists. In 2011, Julian worked with the Data and Information Reuse Secretariat to design the Open and Transparent Government Declaration. He is a spokesperson to government for Open NZ (an organisation representing the open data community) and has chaired conferences including Open Government (June 2010), Smart Government (March 2011), and Web Oriented Government (October 2011).

From April 2011 – June 2012 Julian led the establishment of information services at the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA), as acting Chief Information Officer. He then went on to lead GIS, data, and digital communications for the Christchurch Central Development Unit, for the launch of the Christchurch Central Recovery Plan.

Other than Julian’s, there will be no formal presentations this time. Instead we will have an open mike, and invite Rabblers to talk for 2 minutes about what Geo-Gift they’d like Santa to bring them this year. Other than that, it will be the usual mix of celebrating all things geo, networking and having a good time!

And in another GeoRabble first, we have a parallel event run the same evening by our friends from GeoRabble Perth

As usual, this is a free event, including free pizza (courtesy of OMNILINK). Places are limited, so do register here, or join our MeetUp Group to avoid missing out!

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