Greetings LA folks,<div>The Australian Humanitarian Engineering Conference is coming up in Melbourne. I've taken the liberty of organising a discount for LA folks if they want to attend.</div><div>Please excuse me if it seems too far off topic, but I had a chat with Nick Byrne from Engineers without Borders (who is organising the conf) and they are really keen to reach IT folks and I know there's a big overlap between open source folks and 'code for good' type folks. :)</div>
<div>They are also looking at organising a hackfest or unconf for tech/webby folks if there's enough interest - you can contact Nick directly if you have any questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!<br>Sarah</div><div>
--</div><div><br></div><div><div>Please find the enclosed information regarding an offer for Linux Australia to attend</div><div>the 2011 Australian Humanitarian Engineering Conference (held 30 November –</div><div>2 December at Etihad Stadium, Melbourne)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Special offer: Linux Australia at Student Prices</div><div><br></div><div>Engineers Australia and Engineers Without Borders are proud to bring you imagineering - the </div><div>Humanitarian Engineering Conference 2011. The three-day conference will be held at the Etihad </div>
<div>Stadium in Melbourne and will encapsulate many of the activities that have taken place during </div><div>2011 - the Year of Humanitarian Engineering (YoHE). </div><div>Over the three days of conference, delegates will be taken from the point of understanding the </div>
<div>issues surrounding poverty, reconciliation and the role of engineers in attending to these issues to </div><div>celebrating the current and past activities the engineering sector has undertaken in the areas of </div>
<div>disaster, poverty alleviation and capacity building.</div><div>On the following page you will find an overview of the program, highlighting some keynotes and </div><div>the themes of the conference Delegates can expect a combination of high quality seminars, </div>
<div>workshops and forums surrounding each streams theme, and all building towards the bigger </div><div>picture of humanitarian engineering, and the humanitarian engineer.</div><div>A full conference program is available via the Year of Humanitarian Engineering Website</div>
<div>(<a href="http://www.makeitso.org.au/yohe">http://www.makeitso.org.au/yohe</a>).</div><div>EWB, its community partners and our mission has been very privileged to have had such a </div><div>spotlight on it throughout the year, and we are confident that the final event, the conference, will </div>
<div>just mark the beginning of great things to come.</div><div>Please feel free to direct any questions to the undersigned; we look forward to seeing you there.</div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Nick Byrne</div><div>Project Lead | Year of Humanitarian Engineering</div>
<div>+61 (0) 408 067 029 | n.byrne @<a href="http://ewb.org.au">ewb.org.au</a></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Sarah Stokely<br>Mobile: 0403 800 991 Twitter: @stokely Skype: sarah.stokely<br><a href="http://www.sarahstokely.com/blog" target="_blank">www.sarahstokely.com/blog</a><br>
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