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February Sydney WSG meeting 2010

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Date: Wednesday 24 February, 2010

Event Details

February meeting details

When: Wednesday 24 February 2010
Time: 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start
Cost: $10 per head
RSVP: below

Where: Australian Museum
6 College Street Sydney
(Corner of Park and College Streets - opposite Hyde Park)
Ground level Theatre

Presentation 1: Connecting open source hardware to the web.

Presenter: Justin Mclean

A look at the revolution in low cost, easy to program embedded computing and how it easy is it to interface open source hardware to the internet. Focusing on the arduino open source platform (http://www.arduino.cc) with an overview of its hardware, software, its C style programming language and other projects it has inspired. There will be live demos involving flashing lights, real time graphs and a battery powered web server (in 20 odd lines of code). No electronics experience or knowledge is required.

About Justin

Justin has been programming for a quarter of a century. He first started out with C and embedded systems, lost his way with C++ and then found the internet where he's been busy building applications for more than a decade. He runs his own company, works as a Flex developer, trainer and is a regular conference speaker.

Presentation 2: About NSW: Connecting the government data trail

Presenter: Renea Mason

Before there was a Govt 2.0 taskforce and Apps4NSW there was a project called About NSW that set out to demonstrate the benefits of exposing government data for citizens. In this talk, Renae will take you behind the scenes and share her experiences as the online producer of the project. Be prepared for a journey involving an insane amount of data formats, a stunning variety of collection objects, a diverse group of organisations, many conversations, innumerable cups of tea and a range of attempts to make all this information accessible.

About Renae

Renae has experience in ethnographic and archival research, web editorial and project management. Her current role as Online Producer in the Digital, Social & Emerging Technologies team at the Powerhouse Museum allows her to indulge in all the nerdy things she loves. She's currently working on the web/social media aspect of 'The 80s Are Back' exhibition and knows way more 80s trivia than she'd ever expected to.