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Here are my slides :-)

https://m.opdev.nz/presentation.tar.gz

Hi All

A big thanks to everyone who took part in last night's meeting -
especially our many speakers!

I'll update the web site later this week and would really appreciate it
if speakers could email me their slides and/or relevant links. I'm
sure many of us are looking forward to going back and reviewing some of
those topics at our own pace.

The next meeting will be on Thursday the 21st of March. We have
Sadie Mills of NIWA lined up to do a talk. Let me know if you'd like
to do a talk too.

Regards
Grant

Hi all

Just a quick reminder that the first WOSSAT meeting of 2019 is next
Tuesday - Feb 19.

As this is a Lightning Talk meeting I'm keen to hear from people who
would like to do a 5 minute talk . I have got speakers lined up but
there's room for more. I know some of you like to leave these things
until the last minute - that time is approaching.

More details: https://wossat.nz/lightning.html

Email me to book a slot: <email obscured>

Thanks
Grant

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Hi All

We're kicking off our 2019 schedule with a Lightning Talk meeting on
Tuesday February 19th, and we need you to be a part of it! Here's how
it will work:

* Instead of the usual one or two long talks, we're aiming to have
about a dozen short talks. Each one will be a maximum of five
minutes long (you don't have to use all five minutes).

* We'd like speakers to 'sign-up' in advance. Visit our sign up page
(link below) and click the link to "email Grant" and book your slot
(or email reply to me direct, not on the list).

* One person can sign up for more than one talk so sign up early
and often.

* If you've never done a talk before this is a great place to start
and you have plenty of time to get prepared.

More details here: https://wossat.nz/lightning.html

The meeting will be at the usual place and time:

    6:00pm Tuesday 19th February 2019
    Level 3, Catalyst House
    150 Willis Street
    Wellington
    https://wossat.nz/

Let's get those sign-ups rolling in, and I'll see you on Feb 19th.

Regards
Grant

Hi there

I hope you had a fantastic break and are gearing up for 2019.

Pinpoint Geospatial Solutions have the following Geospatial Training
courses coming up:

- QGIS Introductory
- QGIS Intermediate
- QGIS Advanced
- PostGIS Introductory
- Python for Geospatial (using QGIS)
- SQL Server Spatial
- GeoNode
- GeoServer
- IntraMaps Roam
- Intramaps Admin

If you wish to register your interest, please do so by emailing us on
<email obscured> and advising which training course you wish
to take. We will then send out an Information Course outline.

You can find a brief outline on each course on our website
www.pinpointgeospatial.co.nz.

Prefer training to be done at your organisation (minimum 2 people), not a
problem. We are happy to accommodate you. Contact us to discuss further.

If you require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact
us.

Cheers

Si

Simon Nitz

*Director – Principal Consultant*

Simon Nitz

*Director – Principal Consultant*

*Phone: *0800 123 488
*Mobile:* +64 27 201 5131
*Email:* <email obscured>
*Website: *www.pinpointgeospatial.co.nz
*Address: *PO Box 93010, Napier 4149, New Zealand

Hi all

Just a quick reminder that the November meeting of WOSSAT is tomorrow
evening. The third speaker is confirmed - it me! I'll be speaking
about the command line with an eclectic selection of things I find
useful to know and hard to remember.

See you there
Grant

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Hi All

Just a quick reminder that the November WOSSAT meeting is on next
Thursday - usual place and time:

    6:00pm Thursday 15th November 2018
    Level 3, Catalyst House
    150 Willis Street
    Wellington
    https://wossat.nz/

We have two speakers lined up and a third to be confirmed:

* Rachel Lynch — Design for non-designers

* David Nind — Koha and the amazing world-wide community behind it!

Check the web site for more details: https://wossat.nz/

The schedule after that is:

December: A social meeting in the week of the 18-20th? This is just a
suggestion, I'll actually be away that week. But if people want to do
this, we just need to decide on which night and which pub to meet at
and I'm happy to send out announcements.

January: No meeting - enjoy a summer holiday :-)

February: We'll kick off the 2019 schedule with a Lightning Talks
meeting on Tuesday Feb 19th. So add it to your calendar, and start
thinking about what you could speak about in a 5 minute talk. Email me
to book a slot.

See you Thursday
Grant

Hi All

Just a quick reminder that the October WOSSAT meeting is on this evening
- usual place and time:

6:00pm Tuesday 16th October 2018
Level 3, Catalyst House
150 Willis Street
Wellington
https://wossat.nz/

We have two speakers lined up:

* Thomas Munro — Parallelism in PostgreSQL 11

* Fehmi Noyan Isi — FreeBSD jails

Check the web site for more details: https://wossat.nz/

See you there
Grant

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Hi All

Just a quick reminder that the October WOSSAT meeting is on next
Tuesday - usual place and time:

    6:00pm Tuesday 16th October 2018
    Level 3, Catalyst House
    150 Willis Street
    Wellington
    https://wossat.nz/

We have two speakers lined up:

* Thomas Munro — Parallelism in PostgreSQL 11

* Fehmi Noyan Isi — FreeBSD jails

Check the web site for more details: https://wossat.nz/

See you there
Grant

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Oops, forgot to change the date in the subject line.

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Hi All

I've just posted details for the October WOSSAT meeting. Usual
place and time:

6:00pm Tuesday 16th October 2018
Level 3, Catalyst House
150 Willis Street
Wellington
https://wossat.nz/

We have two speakers lined up:

* Thomas Munro — Parallelism in PostgreSQL 11

* Fehmi Noyan Isi — FreeBSD jails

Check the web site for more details: https://wossat.nz/

See you there
Grant

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Hi All

The September meeting is this Thursday. In addition to the two talks
already announced we have a 3rd, short talk, from Hamish Rae-Hodgson.
Usual place and time:

    6:00pm Thursday 20th September 2018
    Level 3, Catalyst House
    150 Willis Street
    Wellington
    https://wossat.nz/

We have two speakers lined up:

* Ellie Coyle will be talking about work she did as an intern around
Xero's account suggestion feature.

* Matthew Holloway will be introducing us to Pattern Libraries as a
tool for speeding up front-end development.

* Hamish Rae-Hodgson will be talking about his experience taking part
in a 48hr game jam and demoing his game.

Check the web site for more details: https://wossat.nz/

See you there
Grant

Hi All

I've just posted details for the September WOSSAT meeting. Usual
place and time:

6:00pm Thursday 20th September 2018
Level 3, Catalyst House
150 Willis Street
Wellington
https://wossat.nz/

We have two speakers lined up:

* Ellie Coyle will be talking about work she did as an intern around
Xero's account suggestion feature.

* Matthew Holloway will be introducing us to Pattern Libraries as a
tool for speeding up front-end development.

Check the web site for more details: https://wossat.nz/

See you there
Grant

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View finalists online: https://nzosa.org.nz/finalists2018/

Congratulations to the finalists and thank you to everyone who put in a
nomination.

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-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Alison Aldred
Reply-to: <email obscured>
To: <email obscured>
Subject: NZOSA - finalists announced
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:58:36 +1200

Kia ora

We are please to announce the finalists of the 2018 New Zealand Open
Source Awards.

Open Source Use in Government:
The Ministry of Social Development for test automation framework Cubano
The New Zealand Electoral Commission for the Election Management System
redevelopment
The Service Innovation Lab for the Rates Rebates Alpha, Family Services
Directory API & for working openly and collaboratively
Open Source Use in Business:
Sparks Interactive for the Drupal Sector distribution and sector.org.nz
SilverStripe Ltd - The Common Web Platform 2.0
The Catalyst Cloud for major new developments in the Open Stack
community
Open Source Software Project:
Rabid Technologies for the Online Dictionary of New Zealand Sign
Language
Radomirs Cirskis and Roshan Pawar - New Zealand ORCID Hub
The Faucet Foundation - SDN Controller project
Open Source Contributor:
Desley Simmonds - as community manager of Totara Government User Group
Neil Cresswell - for development of the Portainer Software solution
Robert Lyon - for contributions to the Mahara Project
Victoria Spagnolo - for contributions to the Drupal Project and Drupal
Migrate
Open Source in Education, Social Services and Youth:
Amber Craig, Brenda Wallace & Hīria Te Rangi - for Whare Hauora sensors
AUT Library For Tuwhera
Lillian Hetet-Owen for giving women prisoners the opportunity to weave
their way to Freedom
Open Source use in Science:
David Winter for contributions to open source software and open science
Kea Sightings Project for the Kea Database
MetOcean Solutions for wavespectra
NeSI and the Software Carpentry Project
Open Source use in the Arts:
Matt McKegg - LoopDrop Js for contribution to open source music tools
and performance
Wellington Independent Arts Trust for Urban Dream Brokerage
Wellington Irish Session for preserving and opening traditional Irish
music
Open Source People's Choice award
Adam Hyde for contributions to PubSweet
Clemens Zeidler for Fejoa
Danny Adair for ongoing leadership of the Python community in NZ
Kesara Rathnayake for the Deep Dreamer artistic AI project
Michael Proper - ClearOS by the ClearFoundation
The Stencila Project for enabling reproducible research
Whare Hauora sensors project Whare Hauora Sensors

Thank you to all those that made nominations, there were some great
entries, unfortunately not all could become finalists.

Gala dinner
Winners will be announced at the NZOSA gala dinner which is being held
in Wellington on Tuesday 23 October.
Tickets are $70 each, contact <email obscured> to request tickets.

People's Choice
People's choice voting opens on

Sponsors
A big thank you to the sponsors of the 2018 NZOSA - without their
support this event would not be able to happen.
View - https://nzosa.org.nz/sponsors/ to check out our sponsors.

Once again, congratulations to all those that were nominated and the
finalists.

Ngā mihi
Alison

--

Alison Aldred
New Zealand Open Source Awards
Tel: +64 4 499 2267
https://nzosa.org.nz/

Hi All

I thoroughly enjoyed the meeting last night and appreciate so many of
you coming along to take part. Thanks very much to both our speakers:
Brent Wood and Martin Krafft.

I've updated the archive page to include Martin's list of links. You
can find that here:

https://wossat.nz/archive/

Brent, if you want to send me your slides (perhaps PDF export?) or some
relevant links, I can post those too.

The next meeting will be on Thursday September 20th.

See you next month.
Grant

Hi All

The August WOSSAT meeting is happening this evening, usual place and
time:

6:00pm Tuesday 21st August 2018
Level 3, Catalyst House
150 Willis Street
Wellington
https://wossat.nz/

We have two speakers lined up:

* Brent Wood will be telling us about NIWA's Marine Data Portal - it's
based on a suite of Open Source applications, including Silverstripe
(CMS), PostGIS (spatial database), Geonetwork (metadata catalogue),
mapserver (spatial data web services), Openlayers (web map client).
And it runs on Linux servers.

* Martin Krafft will be returning to tell us about his war against
web trackers and techniques he's using to minimise his browsing
footprint on a day to day basis.

Check the web site for more details: https://wossat.nz/

Also, I finally got round to processing and posting the videos from last
month's meeting. You can find them on the "Archive" page here:

https://wossat.nz/archive/

See you this evening
Grant

Hi All

I've just posted details for the August WOSSAT meeting. Usual
place and time:

    6:00pm Tuesday 21st August 2018
    Level 3, Catalyst House
    150 Willis Street
    Wellington
    https://wossat.nz/

We have two speakers lined up:

* Martin Krafft will be returning to tell us about his war against
web trackers and techniques he's using to minimise his browsing
  footprint on a day to day basis.

* Brent Wood will be telling us about NIWA's Marine Data Portal - it's
  based on a suite of Open Source applications, including Silverstripe
(CMS), PostGIS (spatial database), Geonetwork (metadata catalogue),
mapserver (spatial data web services), Openlayers (web map client).
And it runs on Linux servers.

Check the web site for more details: https://wossat.nz/

See you there
Grant

Thanks to both speakers for the presentations, really informative. Apologies to
Tom for leaving early - family etc etc.

Hi WOSSATers

A big thank you to both our speakers last night:

* Dmitry Shiltsov
* Tom Eastman

I've updated the archive page on the web site to include Dmitry's slides
with links to all the mentioned products and projects:

https://wossat.nz/archive/

Video processing and upload is likely to take some time as Kristina is
overseas and I'm struggling to match her ruthless efficiency :-)

The next meeting will be on *Tuesday* August 21st - mark your calendar.

As always, I'm keen to hear from anyone who would like to speak at a
future meeting - just email me.

Regards
Grant

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Hi WOSSAT subscribers

The July meeting is happening this evening, at the usual place and time:

6:00pm Thursday 19th July 2018
Level 3, Catalyst House
150 Willis Street
Wellington
https://wossat.nz/

We have two speakers lined up:
* Dmitry Shiltsov — Teaching kids programming with Scratch & robots(!)
* Tom Eastman — Hashicorp Vault

See you there.
Grant

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