Sydney Geo-events in March and April

You can be forgiven for thinking that of all the state capitals, Sydney is the sleepy hollow of GIS location innovation and associated events. For a while, Sydney had Ignite Spatial, but that quietly went away, as did the SSI Young Spatial Professionals events.

However, for some reason the planets seem to align this March and April and there are a raft of interesting (and  informal) geo-events on the agenda:

http://GeoRabble.org

• 9 March: GITA GIS drinks with Neatstreets' Neil Kuruppu (FREE EVENT)
• 16 March: SSSI twilight seminar: "The Fire Season 2011 - and what it means to you"
• 16 March: Inaugural GeoRabble evening: "An open and inclusive forum for GeoGeeks to share, inspire and have fun" (FREE EVENT)
• 22 March:  State Library Map Section Tour (Limited Numbers)
• 10-15 April:  "34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment"
• 13 April: SSSI twilight seminar: "An Introduction to Mashups - Ad Hoc Mapping"

Not bad huh?  I will be at the inaugural GeoRabble event on the 16th, which promises to be something new, fun and exciting.

See you there!

"Ignite Where" Rocks!

One of the many highlights of the Where 2.0 conference was definitely the "Ignite Where" evening.

If you have not heard about ignite before, check out this previous post.

Having attended a few Ignite events in Sydney and Perth, I thought it would be nice to try my hand at presenting here. It provided a comfortable and relatively neutral, opportunity to try out one of my favourite soap box topics: is the surveying industry stimulating or instead holding back innovation in spatial information in Australia? Judge for yourself here.

Awesome Ignite Sydney 4, and why is Spatial so un-cool?

Yesterday I was delighted, inspired and awed at Ignite Sydney 4 - Sydney's opening of Global Ignite Week.

 Photo: Jean-Jacques Halans

For those of you who are not yet familiar with Ignite: it's like geek-speed-dating with PowerPoint.