On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 17:07, James Polley <ja
...@polley.org> wrote:
> We've just published the schedule for the weekend at
>
http://hackfest.openaustralia.org/schedule<
http://hackfest.openaustral.org/schedule>.
> Doors will open at 10:30am each day and run through till 8pm.
> Keynote speakers:
> - Alan Noble (Gov2.0 Taskforce member, and also Engineering Director
> for Google's Australian office) will be speaking at 11am Saturday on the
> topic of "Innovation through open access to Public Sector Information"
> - Matthew Landauer (OpenAustralia.org) will be talking at 11am Sunday
> We also have directed hacking sessions covering setting up your own
> OpenAustralia VM so you can start hacking (Matthew Landauer + Henare Degan);
> creating a web mashup to put data on a map (Pamela Fox), and making things
> mobile (Rob Manson).
> At 5pm each day we'll have lightning talks - a chance for you to show off
> what you're working on.
> All these talks will take place in one of our larger rooms - but we'll have
> a variety of smaller spaces available for free hacking sessions, BoF
> sessions - or even your own spontaneous presentations.
> Lunch (and afternoon tea) will be provided by Google, and there are plenty
> of local pubs and restaurants to head to for dinner.