Another quick announcement for today. The local FOSS4G-AU chapter is holding un-conference and code sprint in Brisbane on the 15 and 16th of November 2012.
Ben Caradoc-Davies made the announcement on the mailing list the other day:
The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Australia (FOSS4G-AU)
2012 Unconference and Code Sprint will be held at CSIRO’s Queensland
Centre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT), Pullenvale QLD.
15 November: Unconference
16 November: Code Sprint
This is a participant-organised event: please add your unconference and code sprint topic suggestions to the wiki. Organisers are welcome; please speak up.See here for details: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G-AU_2012
RSVP essential for building access. Please sign up here:
http://www.meetup.com/osgeo-aust-nz/events/83965312/Email: aust-nz@lists.osgeo.org (sign up here http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-na)
Kind regards,
Ben Caradoc-Davies
Software Engineer
CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
Australian Resources Research Centre
Being part of osgeo-aust-nz and the local Australian open source GIS movement it’s great to see events like this being organized.
I’ll be there, most likely pimping some QGIS stuff.
Hope to see you there.
Just remember that RSVP is essential to get into the building.
Nathan Woodrow 
Hi Nathan,
How does one join your AQGIS Group?
I am a post-grad student at UWA researching the application of ecology to urbanism, hoping to use QGIS for the land analysis. Though an experienced CAD user (Vectorworks), GIS seems less intuitive, so I am seeking assistance/guidance. I’ve only today discovered this group, and seen that I missed a training session only last week! I look forward to your reply to my student email: 18501994@student.uwa.edu.au
Thanks,
Gerard Siero, Doctoral Candidate, ALVA/AUDRC UWA