<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><b>tl;dr</b>
- The OpenAustralia Foundation (Australia’s open data, open government
and civic hacking charity that uses <a href="https://github.com/openaustralia/planningalerts-app" target="_blank">Rails</a> and <a href="https://github.com/openaustralia/openaustralia-parser" target="_blank">Ruby</a> <a href="https://github.com/openaustralia/planningalerts-parsers" target="_blank">extensively</a>) is running a hackfest next weekend, sign up
at </span><a href="https://oa-hackfest.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 153);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://oa-hackfest.eventbrite.com/</span></a></font></p>
<p><font size="2">~~~~<br></font></p><p><font size="2">Come and join Henare, Tim and Matthew in their basement, er.. we mean <a title="Map of Google Sydney" href="http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Google+Sydney,+48+Pirrama+Road+Pyrmont,+New+South+Wales+2009+Australia&hl=en&ll=-33.866995,151.195908&spn=0.121298,0.264187&sll=-33.904362,151.147002&sspn=0.48498,1.056747&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=13&iwloc=A" target="_blank">Google Sydney</a>, for an <b>awesome weekend of hacking</b>.</font></p>
<p><font size="2">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.</font></p>
<p><font size="2">However, it would be much more <b>fun if you came too</b>!</font></p>
<p><font size="2">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. <b>Come along and learn, share and build interesting things</b> in and around open data, open government and civic hacking.</font></p>
<p><font size="2">Want to reboot <a href="http://www.openaustralia.org/" target="_blank">OpenAustralia.org</a> by fixing the scraper? How about some finishing touches to <a href="http://www.electionleaflets.org.au/" target="_blank">Election Leaflets</a> to monitor future Australian elections? Or do you want to learn how to help tens of thousands of people get <a href="http://www.planningalerts.org.au/" target="_blank">PlanningAlerts</a> by writing a simple scraper (anyone can do it!)? <b>Then register here</b>:</font></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px"><font size="2"><b><a href="https://oa-hackfest.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">https://oa-hackfest.eventbrite.com/</a></b></font></p>
<p><font size="2">This event will be hosted at <a title="Map of Google Sydney" href="http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Google+Sydney,+48+Pirrama+Road+Pyrmont,+New+South+Wales+2009+Australia&hl=en&ll=-33.866995,151.195908&spn=0.121298,0.264187&sll=-33.904362,151.147002&sspn=0.48498,1.056747&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=13&iwloc=A" target="_blank">Google Sydney</a> next weekend <b>the 10th and 11th of September</b>, here’s our plan for the weekend:</font></p>
<h2><font size="2">Saturday</font></h2>
<p><font size="2">11:30 – Doors open<br>
12:00 – Introduction and housekeeping<br>
12:15 – The Gears That Power the Tubes of OpenAustralia – <i>Matthew Landauer</i><br>
12:30 – An Introduction to Guerrilla Data Liberation with ScraperWiki – <i>Henare Degan</i><br>
12:45 – Let the hacking begin<br>
18:00 – We’ll order pizzas with anyone interested<br>
22:00 – Doors close</font></p>
<h2><font size="2">Sunday</font></h2>
<p><font size="2">11:30 – Doors open / Let the hacking begin<br>
16:00 – Stop hacking, start presentations – show us what you’ve build, fixed or learnt!<br>
18:00 – Doors close, optional beers at the pub</font></p>
<p><font size="2">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.</font></p>
<p>Sign up to the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/openaustralia-dev" target="_blank">OpenAustralia Community mailing list</a> if you have any questions<font size="2"> and don’t forget to tag your <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23oahack" target="_blank">tweets</a>, <a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/tags/oahack/" target="_blank">photos</a>, etc. #oahack</font></p>
<p><font size="2">Cheers,</font></p>
<p><font size="2"><i>Henare, Matthew and Tim<br>
OpenAustralia Foundation volunteers</i></font></p></div></div></div></div></div>