Congratulations to the #Mahara team at Catalyst. Great to see a bit of recognition for all your hard work.
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Thanks to everyone involved in the August WOSSAT meeting. The slides, links and videos are up now (thanks to speedy work from @anitsirk & in spite of camera fail from @grantmnz) ...
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Tonight's WOSSAT meeting was a bit different to usual - many thanks to our scheduled speakers: David Thomsen (@lotographia), Patty Duong and Kristina Hoeppner (@anitsirk) as well as our two special guest speakers: Jacinda & Ashley.
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The next WOSSAT meeting is on *next* Tuesday - August 17th and will feature:
🗨 David Thomsen — Tovelund Puzzles
🗨 Patty Duong — My job in web accessibility
🗨 Kristina Hoeppner — 1 of 97 things every UX practitioner should know
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Thanks to everyone involved in the July WOSSAT meeting. In particular, our speakers: Eric, Michael and Douglas as well as Rebecca on the AV desk.
The slides, links and videos are up now ...
wossat.nz/archive/#2021-07
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Congratulations @anitsirk!
Come along to the August WOSSAT meeting to see Kristina's talk on one of these 97 things.
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The next WOSSAT meeting is on *this* Thursday - July 15th and will feature:
🗨 Eric Jacolin - Mailcatcher
🗨 Michael Howard - QMK keyboard firmware
🗨 Douglas Bagnall - Chess, Javascript & WASM
🗨 Maybe an "open mic" segment if there's time
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Videos from this week's meeting are up on the web site now, along with slides and links.
Many thanks to @anitsirk for speedy work on the video processing.
wossat.nz/archive/#2021-06
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First up was @piacandrews talking about what trustworthy public services might look like
youtube.com/watch?v=0IhHJ193…
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Thank you to our speakers @piacandrews, @anitsirk and @CKlitscher at last night's WOSSAT meeting.
Slides and links are up on the web site now (video will follow later)
wossat.nz/archive/#2021-06
Tonight's WOSSAT meeting is kicking off in just over an hour (6pm Tues June 15).
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This month's WOSSAT meeting is on next Tuesday - the 15th.
Pia Andrews will be talking about “Open source in governments around the world: code, methods and culture”.
There's room for another short talk or “open mic” segment.
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Wellington Open Source Show And Tell is a monthly meetup for fans of all things open.
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Nominations for the NZ Open Source Awards close tomorrow (June 1). Please get your nominations in, or DM details if you'd like ^GM to nominate you.
And here's the link:
teapaw.org/nzosa/status/139911009…
Have you made a nomination for the NZ Open Source Awards yet? 🏆 Here's the link! nzosa.org.nz/nomination
Round up of last night's meeting ...
Thanks to Steve Barnett for an interesting and entertaining talk on Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Slides and links up on the web site now.
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Video won't be available for several days.
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Thanks also to our short talk speakers:
• Rob - tldr pages
• @DavidNind - Wikipedia/Wikimedia
• @grantmnz (this is awkward) - grep
And helpers Rebecca on the AV desk; and @catatonichic + @aleishaamohia greeters/setup/cleanup
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The May WOSSAT meeting is on tomorrow — Thursday the 20th. We have two speakers lined up:
🗨 Steve Barnett — Oh my GAAD! (The wide world of accessibility)
🗨 Pia Andrews — Open source in governments around the world
More details on the web site:
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The May WOSSAT meeting will soon be upon us — Thursday the 20th. We have two speakers lined up:
🗨 Steve Barnett — Oh my GAAD! (The wide world of accessibility)
🗨 Pia Andrews — Open source in governments around the world
More details on the web site: wossat.nz/
At this month's meeting @timClicks kindly provided three copies of his Rust book to be distributed via a draw. The lucky recipients were:
🗨 Eric J
🗨 Chris C
🗨 Reinhardt C
If you missed out in the draw, you can order the book here (and you might even be able to spot a discount code in the video of Tim's talk):
manning.com/books/rust-in-ac…
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Videos from this month's meeting are up now.
❶ Sam Crawley — Data manipulation with R
youtube.com/watch?v=1oNew8mi…
❷ Tim McNamara What is Rust and why is it interesting?
youtube.com/watch?v=kdv1EBk6…
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Well that was a fun and informative meeting. Thanks to our speakers: @sam_c_nz and @timClicks.
Also thanks to Rebecca on the AV desk and Alasdair our greeter. Added a couple of links to the web site as promised:
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But here they are again anyway ...
1. NZ Open Source Awards - nominate now!
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Reminder: April meeting is tomorrow - Tuesday the 20th.
Two talks: Sam Crawley on data manipulation with R & Tim McNamara on the Rust programming language
More info on web site
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Wellington Open Source Show And Tell is a monthly meetup for fans of all things open.
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