Brisbane Meetup of Aust-NZ OSGeo Chapter

In a fit of ill-advised post FOSS4G enthusiasm I set up a meetup page. In my defence it sounded like a lot of the fun to be had in open source spatial is happening at the OSGeo chapter level.
I was actually concerned that I was taking on too much; that whole feeling of throwing a party and wondering if anyone is going to show...
Turns out we had quite a crowd; and an excellent location looking over the Brisbane river:

Rather than try and provide a summary the first Brisbane "Hack and Yak" here are the links brought up on the big screen:

• Release Notes - GeoTools - Version 8.0-M2
• Gource Controls
• CommonMap
• ozBlog - The online portfolio of Levi Putna
• Asset Management Solutions for Asset Intensive Industries | Mincom
• OpenScales
• OpenStreetMap-in-a-Box - Open StreetMap Wiki
• Welcome to the Quantum GIS Project
• NGIS :: Home
• Home - Brisbane City Council
• spatial@gov :: Home
• OSDC 2011 | Nov 14-18 Canberra
• YOW! 2011 Australia Developer Conference
• AusGOAL
• Discuss -- OSGeo Discussions
• Australian Ocean Data Network Portal
• BlueNet
• OSGeo Aust-NZ Open Source Geospatial Chapter (Brisbane)
• ELOGeo Repository
• Queensland Government Information Service

If any of that looks like fun you are welcome to join us on Friday Nov 11th. I will be on hand with a preview of an upcoming GeoTools Workshop. I also hope to start round 1 of uDig vs QGIS challenge (to try and encourage some creativity).

Welcome to NetBeans users

Continuing this theme of pointing out hapless documentation contributors ... this week the user list covered how to get your hack on for the NetBeannies among us.

This time Michael Bedward has stepped up to the plate; in addition to answer questions he has written up some docs on on the wiki. For those wanting to use GeoTools the user guide has: Welcome to NetBeans developers

This is a great little tutorial; screen snaps showing each step along the way. Almost temps me to try NetBeans (if only for the maven integration; not having to install subversion - they make it look easy). Perhaps for my net GeoTools training course :-)

For those wanting to fix up the library (join us please) the developers guide has also been improved: Using NetBeans with GeoTools.

Thanks for the docs Michael.