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January 2017

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FSM casual dinner with Deb Nicholson
by Ben M 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Happy new year Free Software Melbourne, After a stellar talk titled "Handle Conflict, Like a Boss!" Deb Nicholson from the Open Invention Network and OpenHatch will be stopping by Melbourne for a few days on her way back to the US. https://linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/37/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x-HYunGtR0 We're organizing a casual dinner with Deb this Monday at 7pm at the Supper Inn Chinese Restauraunt, 15 Celestial Avenue, just off Little Bourke Street We'd love to see you all there but numbers are limited and so RSVPs are a must to either myself of Ben Sturmfields at the emails provided below: Ben S <ben(a)stumbles.id.au> Ben M <puzzleduck(a)gmail.com>

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FSM Jan 13th - LCA preview: Planning Alerts, State Contracts then The World
by Ben M 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

For the second year in a row we're going to break with tradition and hold a meetup in January because one of the organizers of FSM is giving a talk at Linux Conf Au (or are we actually starting a new tradition?) Unfortunately LCA is a little earlier this year and so we won't be able to meetup at our regular time and place but I hope you can all make it anyhow. It will also be a shorter meetup than usual with no Gnews prepared, but we'll still grab a bite to eat nearby after the talk ... anyhow, on with the official blurb: How does a council scraping initiative started in the UK evolve to influence and inform how the Victorian Government manages its information? Planning Alerts was originally a UK service to allow people to subscribe to be notified when there was a planning application near them regardless of council boundaries. It's success has also been replicated (and improved) in Australia. It seems obvious to many of us that a significant factor is that the initial project and those that followed it were Open Source and open to the Communities they served. How can we better demonstrate to government the value of Open Standards and Open Data than by making it happen? Details: Friday, January 13, 2017 - 7:00 PM At TeamSquare - level 1 / 520 Bourke St, Melbourne *On the first floor, call 0419 390 496 <0419%20390%20496> if the doors are lockedhttps://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1%2F520+Bourke+St%2C+Melbour… <https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1%2F520+Bourke+St%2C+Melbourne%2C+…>*

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