Author: Lin Nah

Storytelling with Maps for beginners – Wellington – 3 December 2018

What

101 for Beginners: Who doesnt like a good story!

Ideal for those with no mapping experience, working in the public service.

Join us at LINZ to for a free, practical & hands on session – crafting stories using geospatial information.

Audience: People working in Policy, Media Services, Researchers, Advisors, Analysts and Technical Leads from throughout the Social Sector and Natural Resource Agencies.

In this session we’ll cover a range of themes including:

  • Tools and technologies available
  • Using stories to increase awareness of the benefits of geospatial information
  • Accessing and using Geospatial data sources like the LINZ data service
  • Engaging your audience
  • Sharing, embedding, social media, blogs and other sites.

You will need to bring a laptop, charger, mouse and your lunch. 9-12pm will be training, 1-2pm support for creating your own stories.

If you have a Google or Esri Account you will want to know your password. We will help get you setup prior to the workshop for those who dont have one.

No coding or mapping experience is required for this session. A summary webinar could be hosted at a later date if the demand is there.

You may wish to consider a project idea prior to this workshop, you will want to collect good quality photos, a little text, video clips (youtube) and maybe ideas for your story.

After this session: Participants have the knowledge and skills to develop and share their own stories using a variety of map based tools.

When and Where

3 December 2018
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM NZDT

Land Information NZ – Toitu Te Whenua
155 The Terrace,
Level 7 – Huia,
Te Aro, Wellington 6011.

How Much

Free. Please register.

More

Eventbrite event.
Advanced Storytelling with Maps: Intended for Geospatial Professionals on 10 December 2018.

Organised by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ).

Securing APIs for the Data Economy – Wellington – 27 November 2018

What

We look forward to seeing you at the next Wellington Identity Tech Talk, where we will discuss the impact and opportunities of Privacy & Consent that are affecting emerging ecosystems across various industries including Banks, Telco’s & Health.

With such ecosystems in mind it has never been more important to give consumers the ability to manage and control how their data is shared and used. Please join the discussion with like-minded peers and register here.

Topics will include:

• Introduction to Privacy and Consent in emerging ecosystems
• Securing APIs for the data economy
• Lessons learnt from API enabling the enterprise

High Level Agenda

5:30pm – Welcome, Pizza & Drinks
6:30pm – Introduction to Privacy and Consent in emerging ecosystems
7:00pm – Securing APIs for the data economy
7:30pm – Q&A, Connect & Meet
7:45pm – End

See you there!

When and Where

27 November 2018
5:30 PM to 7:45 PM

The Loft, 2nd Floor,
Mac’s Brewbar
4 Taranaki St, Wellington

How Much

Free. Please RSVP here.

More

Meetup event.
Wellington Identity Tech Talks.
These talks are organised and sponsored by ForgeRock, but we aim for the talks to be wide ranging and not product-specific.

Domain Name Abuse Forum – Wellington – 27 November 2018

What

Finding solutions for a safer .nz space.

The Domain Name Abuse Forum invites you to participate and contribute to discussions and working sessions that aim to identify the issues surrounding domain name abuse. Forum attendees will work together to understand the issues and discuss and identify how to best tackle these challenges, including:

  • whether or how the .nz domain name space should deal with content abuse, e.g. online shopping and scam websites

  • how to minimise data quality issues from the .nz domain name space, e.g. fake or invalid registration details

  • how we can minimise and mitigate technical attacks on the .nz domain name space and protect this vital infrastructure.

The forum will be a space for collaboration between agencies inviting lawyers and law enforcement, Internet safety and security experts, government departments, academics, civil society and more.

All of this to make .nz a safer and more trusted domain name space.

Pre-reading: The Internet and Jurisdiction Policy Network is working at the global level on issues that cross over with this forum. You may find interesting and relevant information on their website at https://www.internetjurisdiction.net/. We have prepared some specific pre-reading docs that you may be interested in reading before the event:

Agenda available on  this event page or programme (pdf).

When and Where

Tuesday, November 27, 2018
09:00 to 17:00

James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor,
147 The Terrace,
Wellington.

How Much

Free. Please register here.

Is your organisation represented yet? Take a look at the organisations that have already registered (pdf).

More

InternetNZ event page and programme (pdf).

R-Ladies Auckland: Telling Stories With Data – Auckland – 29 November 2018

What

We are very excited to have Kate Newton from RNZ at this month’s meetup.

Description: R has rapidly become a coding language of choice for journalists around the world who create “data journalism”. In this workshop, we’ll explore what data journalism is, how R helps journalists to tell those data stories, and then collectively hack the code behind a recent story published by RNZ that used data analysis and visualisations as part of the reporting process.

Bio: Kate Newton has been a journalist for a decade and is currently a reporter for RNZ’s new In Depth team (https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/in-depth/368436/universities-face-a-crisis-of-the-humanities), which focuses on long-form and investigative journalism. Known among her colleagues for being “good at maths” (an extremely low bar in journalism), she has only recently discovered R and its power as a data journalism tool. She is gradually learning and incorporating R into her research and reporting, including publishing her extremely messy code so she can learn from the veterans!

What to bring: Laptops. We’ll use Kate’s Github repo (https://github.com/katenewtonnz/humanities) , and for anyone who’s interested in learning more about data journalism, The Data Journalism Handbook (https://datajournalismhandbook.org/) is a great online resource.

As with all our meetups all levels of R welcome, from beginners to regular users. Our meetups are about sharing knowledge and inspiring others. https://rladies.org/about-us/

Please read the code of conduct before attending this meetup.

When and Where

29 November 2018
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Xero
96 St. Georges Bay Road Parnell, Auckland.

How Much

Free. Please reserve your seat here.

More

Meetup event: Telling Stories With Data.

R-Ladies Auckland Meetup, twitter @RLadiesAKL | auckland [at] rladies.org (email) | https://github.com/R-LadiesAKL

Code Camp Christchurch 2018 – Christchurch – 24 November 2018

What

Code Camp Christchurch is back for 2018!

What: Software Development, SharePoint, PowerApps, Business Intelligence, SQL, Azure and more

We are putting together a fantastic line up of presenters for a full day of shared learning.

The Office 365 stream will include our first PowerApp Hackathon and the launch of a new PowerApps User Group.

We will be making more agenda announcements over the next few days.

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Join us for a full day of learning, sharing and networking.

Code Camp Christchurch Team

Steve, Dave and Hamish

When and Where

Saturday 24 November 2018
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Ara (DLECT / K Block)
130 Madras Street, Christchurch.

How Much

Free. Please register here.

More

Code Camp Christchurch 2018.

Lightning talks at WordPress meetup – Wellington – 6 November 2018

What

Dear all, in November we have a few lightning talks. We need two more speakers with 5-10 min presentations. Please, let us know if you are keen to do that!

Talk 1 is about speed optimisation and image compression from our WordCamp speaker Peter Warwick-Mahoney.

Website speed is so important, but with the plethora of tools available, what should you use? Peter takes us through the gamut of configurations he regularly uses to half a WordPress site’s loading time.

Peter is SEO expert, web developer & designer, all-round nice guy, and ravenous information devourer. Peter’s focus over the past decade has been on SEO (although it’s been a feature he’s offered since the late 90s), while making sure he keeps his typing fingers in the site creation pie too.

Talk 2 is about what is wrong with lists of must-have plugins from Maria Skatova.

Maria works with lots of bloggers and small business projects, doing lots of ‘fixing a problem’ work for websites, built by their owners. Her experience shows that plugins cause trouble quite often, and ‘must-have’ lists of plugins are the worst. Maria will also share her own ‘must-have’ list 🙂

Maria is married to WordPress for more than 10 years, and they have a gazillion of little websites together. She also is a co-organiser of WordPress Wellington meetup.

Talk 3 opens our Page Builders series with Thrive builder review from Peter Williamson.

Peter will share how he uses Thrive and why he prefers it to other page builders.

Pete Williamson has worked with WordPress for over 4 years now, having previously been involved in theatre and Audio-Visual industry.

Yours truly,

WordPress Wellington meetup organisers

When and Where

6 November 2018
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Biz Dojo (new location)
3 Market Lane, Wellington

How Much

Free. Please RSVP here.

More

November WordPress meetup – lightning talks.
WordPress Wellington Meetup, Facebook WellingtonWordPress and Twitter @WPWgtn.

AUT Creative Tech Student Showcase – Auckland – 9 November 2018

What

It has been a while! Although the Creative Tech meetup group hasn’t met for a year, we’ve kept the meetup group so we can start meetups again once we have the human resources to curate presentations.

Coming up on November 9th, we’re teaming up with the AKLgamedev Meetup, UI/UX Meetup and the Anim + VFX Meetup for a Design + Creative Tech Mega Meetup.

The presentations will still be separate for all meetups so you’ll need to decide which to go to.
– AKLgamedev Meetup – no presentation – demos on level 9 + 11
– UI/UX Meetup – WG Room TBA
– Anim + VFX Meetup – WG906
– Creative Tech Meetup – No presentation – demos on level 9 + 11

Because there’s going to be so much to see, we wont be having a presentation in the usual format this month just come along and see what the AUT Creative Students have to show, network and enjoy some drink and nibbles.

The doors will open up at 6 and we’ll launch straight in to the networking and demonstrations.

Let’s also start the discussion of how to revive the Creative Tech Meetup presentations.

If you have content to show at a future Creative Tech Meetup or know people who would want to run a Creative Tech Meetup please contact ben.kenobi@aut.ac.nz and we’ll sort something out.

I’m looking forward to seeing you there. Come find me, I’ll be wearing the lanyard that reads Ben Kenobi.

When and Where

9 November 2018
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

AUT City Campus, Colab Open Studio, Level 11, WG Building,
2 Governor Fitzroy Pl, Auckland

How Much

Free.

More

Event announced at AUT Events and Meetup.

Refactor – Auckland – 21 November 2018

What

Wahoo! It’s the last Refactor for the year. We’re so excited to welcome speakers Natasha Lampard, Uttara Nataraj and Vic Jack. We’re back at the amazing Warren & Mahoney studio in Wynyard Quarter. Read on to learn more or grab your ticket now!

Speaker Profiles

Natasha Lampard

Natasha Lampard (@tashmahal) is the co-founder and director of Webstock; co-founder of Lil Regie and creator of Extraordinary Tales of Strength & Daring. Natasha fell in love with the web and its possibilities in 1999 and has been working on it in various capacities, ever since. She now wears a number of hats including event manager, designer, writer, usability advocate and entrepreneur. She loves soup, the work of Joan Hickson as Miss Marple and the creation of delightful spaces – both online and IRL.

Uttara Nataraj

Uttara (Utts) is currently working as an Agency Development Manager at Google NZ, where she works with New Zealand’s top independent agencies and their small to medium business clients, to help them grow using Google products. Utts is an Engineer by background (she studied Engineering Science and The University of Auckland) and prior to Google was working in Management Consulting at EY for six years across Sydney and Auckland. Over this time she worked on numerous projects across various industry sectors including: FMCG, Retail, Media, Real Estate, Airlines, Government and Power & Utilities. Utts is also a big advocate of mentoring and has been a mentor for the UoA Business School Women’s Mentoring Programme for the past two years. On the weekends you’ll likely find Utts exploring art galleries and eating her way around Auckland!

Vic Jack

Vic has a background in advertising and design from London and was part of the digital boom in the late 90’s where she worked as UX Designer. And advocate for life-learning she returned to University in 2014 to complete a Masters in Design. She works on projects that embrace systems thinking and sustainable business practices that provide real social impact. A future thinker, Vic has a comprehensive knowledge of nascent technologies that include blockchain technology, IOT, AI and machine learning. She is a strong advocate of decentralised technology that provides us with the mechanism to have increased control and sovereignity over our own data. She is the founder of Maslow, a boutique recruitment agency that focuses on attracting, engage and retaining women into positions of management and leadership inside the creative and tech industries.

When and Where

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 6-8:30pm

Warren & Mahoney Architects
139 Pakenham Street West

How Much

Tickets $25 – open to all. Buy tickets.

More

Refactor: Auckland November 2018.

Refactor’s Code of Conduct and a Privacy Policy.

 

 

Star Gazing and Aurora Chasing – Oamaru – 26 October 2018

What

Star Gazing and Aurora Chasing
Adventures in Astronomy Around and Above New Zealand.

We are fortunate to engage Dr Ian Griffin, Director of Otago Museum, for a free talk on Astronomy at the bookshop. He’s an inspiring, knowledgeable speaker and we look forward to hearing more about the Museum and Planetarium in Dunedin, stargazing and Aurora hunting in our area.

There will be announcements on an upcoming evening, Friday 26 October, about Oamaru’s Observatory by our local astronomer Damien McNamara. We’re lucky to have Dark Sky Reserves here in Otago and South Island, Mount John Observatory near Tekapo, another Planetarium at Mount Cook Hermitage and plenty to see in the Southern night skies. Aurora postcards with photos of those magical displays taken from Oamaru will be available, and space exploration news will be talking points at the evening event.

It is always fun to learn from others, and all of our Slide Night talks end up expanding our conversations along with our sense of wonder.

When and Where

26 October 2018
7pm drinks and nibbles
8pm lecture

Adventure Books,
7 Harbour Street, Oamaru.

How Much

Free.
50 seats only. Reservations essential.

More

Facebook post.

Adventure books on Facebook

NDF2018 (National Digital Forum) Conference – Wellington – 19 – 21 November 2018

What

Registrations are now open and the detailed programme is now live for the premier digital conference for the gallery, library, archives and museums sector! Our 2018 line-up will make this NDF unmissable.

With outstanding keynotes and a whole host of speakers and workshops on offer – everything from data cleaning for non techies, managing born-digital archives, parsing parliament, GLAM data workbenches, a Wikipedian at Large… not to mention mapping stories in the residential red zone, the challenges of Chinese OCR and agile in te reo.

The National Digital Forum (NDF) is a network of people and organisations working together to enhance New Zealand’s digital interaction with culture and heritage. As a network, we connect together the people who are shaping our new digital culture, and we also work closely with museums, archives, art galleries, libraries, government, and the creative sectors to support their initiatives.

Code of Conduct

The National Digital Forum welcomes everyone to observe, participate, learn and grow together. When engaging with our community, either online, through social media, or at physical events such as the conference and workshops, we want everyone to have a good time and feel safe. Our code of conduct sets out what we should expect of each other.

When and Where

19 November 2018: Pre-conference workshops
20 & 21 November 2018: Full programme

Te Papa, Wellington

How Much

Full Registration Standard from 4 October 2018

Institutional Member $650.00
Non member $750.00
Student/Unwaged** $305.00

Day Registration

Institutional Member $355.00
Non member $405.00
Student/Unwaged**  $205.00

Conference fees and registration.

More

You can view programmes and talks from our past conferences. Since 2013 talks have been available on our YouTube channel.