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PHP Doctrine: from skeptic to convert – Wellington – 24 September 2018

What

“Doctrine: from skeptic to convert” by Eric Jacolin

Michael Coleman’s 5min paddle will be about “zsnips – text snippets for your command line”.

Please note that we have moved our meetups to BizDojo Market Lane and this meetup is on the last Monday (not Tuesday) of the month!

The Wellington PHP UserGroup provides a safe community and opportunity to meet smart, fun, and diverse people on the last Tuesday of every month. Attendance is free, caters to all skill levels and is open to anyone with an interest in web development and emergent and Open Source technologies. Whilst PHP is an extremely popular scripting language we regularly invite guest speakers from front end communities, accessibility and legal experts, as well as alternative and complementary .

When and Where

BizDojo Market Lane
3 Market Lane
Wellington

6pm – 8pm
Monday 24 September 2018

How Much

Free

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Meetup Page for the meeting
PHP Usergroup Wellington Meetup page

 

Previewing 2 sessions at USA’s DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 – Wellington – 26 September 2018

What

Christophe de Boeck (Kiwibank) and Dr Cherry Vu & Rob England (Teal Unicorn) are speaking at the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 in Las Vegas!! and they kindly accepted to present their talks in Wellington prior to travel to US!

Please join us next Wednesday 26th!

Talk: Diary of a Servant Leader
Speaker: Christophe de Boeck, Kiwibank
Abstract: When I moved from Ops to Dev in the bank, I expected more of my peers would be open to a different way of working. Unfortunately I noticed a lot of people did not want to own their own work, for various reasons. This presentation is a summary of what I did to make people feel more proud again.

Talk: Crossing the Streams: 2018 is the Year of ITSM/DevOps Crossover
Speakers: Rob England and Cherry Vu, Teal Unicorn
Abstract: The presenters look at what holds ITIL back from more successful transformation of IT work, and how we can help it succeed, as DevOps and ITSM finally converge on each other in the common ground of service operations.

Special thanks to our new sponsor “Deloitte” (https://www2.deloitte.com/nz/en.html) for venue, food and drinks!!!

When and Where

26 September 2018
4:30pm – 6:30pm

Deloitte, Level 12,
20 Customhouse Quay
Wellington

How Much

Free

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Meetup: Previewing two Kiwi sessions at the USA’s Devops Enterprise Summit 2018

Wellington DevOps Group

WOSSAT – Wellington – 20 September 2018

What

Wellington Open Source Show And Tell (WOSSAT)

Ellie Coyle — A junior’s tale of building and productionising machine learning models

Ellie will be talking about work she did as an intern around Xero’s account suggestion feature

Ellie is a graduate developer at Xero currently working on Reporting. She enjoys romanticising maths and computer science, playing with her newly adopted Cat called Evie and going out to live music gigs.

Matthew Holloway — An Intro to Pattern Libraries

Pattern Libraries are a componentised approach to front-end development; like lego blocks that you compose together to build websites and webapps. Matthew will talk about addressing inefficiences in the way we work, and using pattern libraries to make development go Blazingly Fast™.

Matthew is Front-end Director with Springload.

Hamish Rae-Hodgson — Collision detection in a 48hr game jam

A tight deadline focuses the mind. Hamish will be talking about his experience taking part in a 48hr game jam. In particular he’ll be focussing on how he implemented collision detection in his game (spoiler alert: corners were cut) and he’ll follow up with a live demo of the game.

When and Where

6pm Tuesday, 20th September 2018

Catalyst IT
Level 3, Catalyst House,
150 Willis Street, Wellington

How Much

Free

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wossat.nz

Meetup event

Future Meetings Schedule:

Monthly meetings alternate between the 3rd Tuesday and the 3rd Thursday of each month.

Cawthron Scitec Expo 2018 – Nelson – 26 September 2018

What

The Cawthron Science and Technology Fair

Come and view our youngest innovators’ science and technology projects. This year sees students in years 9 – 13 seeking to impress the judges and you will be amazed at the local talent!

All entries will be on public display from 9am until 5pm on 26th September at the Trafalgar Centre. NO NEED TO REGISTER – entry is free and there is no limit on numbers.

Website: cawthronscitec.org.nz

When and Where

26 September 2018
9am to 5pm

Trafalgar Centre,
Paru Paru Road, Nelson.

How Much

Free

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Website: cawthronscitec.org.nz

Eventbrite listing.

Emily Lakdawalla – Looking For Life In The Solar System – Christchurch – 26 September 2018

What

Looking for Life in the Solar System

An Astronz Public Lecture

Emily will tour the solar system to inform the audience about the variety of different science missions actively exploring our solar system right now, with emphasis on the scientific motivations for their exploration (our origins and the search for life), with lots and lots of pretty pictures. She will share some of the the recent scientific discoveries made. The talk will include some of the latest images from the current missions.

Emily Lakdawalla is an internationally admired science communicator and educator, passionate about advancing public understanding of space and sharing the wonder of scientific discovery. Emily came to The Planetary Society in 2001 to oversee a portion of the Society’s Red Rover Goes to Mars project, an education and public outreach program on the Mars Exploration Rover mission funded by LEGO.

She ran worldwide contests that selected and trained high school students to travel to Pasadena to participate in rover operations training exercises in 2002 and then in actual Mars Exploration Rover mission operations during January and February of 2005.

She was awarded the 2011 Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award from the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society for her blog entry about the Phoebe ring of Saturn. Asteroid 274860 was formally named “Emilylakdawalla” by the International Astronomical Union on July 12, 2014.

She received an honorary doctorate from The Open University in 2017 in recognition of her contributions in communicating space science to the public.

This is a free public lecture on behalf of Astronz, in association with the Canterbury Astronomical Society and the University of Canterbury.

When and Where

7.00 – 8.30pm on 26 September 2018

University of Canterbury,  C1 Lecture Theatre – Arts Road, Ilam, Christchurch.

How Much

Free. Admission by ticket only. Book here.

Women In Engineering Meetup – Auckland – 25 September 2018

What

We’re thrilled to be having our first meetup on Tuesday 25th September 2018 at 6pm.

We’ll start with wine, nibbles and networking from 6:00pm and then begin our panel discussions at 7:00pm, with the evening wrapping up by 8:30pm so you can be home for a late dinner. Please feel free to bring along any friends or colleagues who you think would enjoy the evening.

Please do let us know if you’re able to attend so we can organise catering.

We look forward to seeing you there.

About

The Auckland Women’s Engineering Meetup is a group where women in Engineering (and those who wish to explore the industry) can connect and share experiences.

Come and join us as we share our stories; how we got into Engineering, our journeys as professional Engineers, challenges that we’ve faced and overcome and celebration of our successes!

We want to learn about current goings on within the industry, new initiatives and opportunities to help develop not only the skills of Women Engineers in Auckland but to help raise the profile of Engineering as a career for new Women Engineers of all ages.

When and Where

Manpower Albany
Building E,
42 Tawa Drive,
Albany
Auckland

Tuesday, September 25, 2018
6 pm to 8:30pm
Every 4th Tuesday of the month until November 26, 2018

How Much

Free

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25 September Women In Engineering Event
Women In Engineering – Auckland Meetup Group

Erlang in Earnest, for Mixed Reality gaming – Auckland – 19 September 2018

What

Using Erlang in earnest – building a Mixed Reality, multiplayer, game engine embodying digital Agents – a beginner’s guide

Description: We have built a Mixed Reality game engine in .Net running in Azure. It works well, but scaling and cost mean it is not tenable as the business grows. We needed to build something that could be massively parallel, and scale without limit. We tried NodeJS. We rethought things, did some more research, and came up with Erlang. It took us a couple of years to find a way into the language, but once we found the right tools, getting started with Erlang took about two weeks. This talk will attempt to help you avoid a similar two-year trial period. With examples.

Short Bio: Dr Roy Davies is a computer scientist who went to the dark side and became interested in the human side of the cursor. Studying cognitive science and psychology prepared him for doing research in Mixed Reality in the 90s when it was still a new and amazing thing. Over the years, he has worked in academia and business, with a stint as a consultant, in both Sweden and New Zealand. His first introduction to ‘interesting’ languages was programming in Prolog, and building hard-wired computers to control robots for people with disabilities. Roy is currently the CTO of Imersia, but still gets his hand dirty by cutting code – leading by example.

Functional Programming Auckland

Come learn, teach, play with all things FP. We’ll see what people are into including some presentations and hack nights to try other cool languages etc. Haskell, Scala, Clojure, Lisp, ML, OCaml, Javascript, Erlang and all the others…

When and Where

Wednesday 19 September 2018
6pm – 8pm

Movio HQ
2.4 – 30 St Benedicts St
Eden Tce
Auckland

How Much

Free

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Using Erlang in earnest – building a Mixed Reality
Functional Programming Auckland Meetup Group

AKLgamedev Meetup: ‘Guardian’ Launch – Auckland – 12 September 2018

What

Come along and celebrate the release of Metia Interactive’s ‘Guardian’ on Wednesday September 12that the September AKLgamedev Meetup is during Māori Language Week.

The Guardian story is an interactive fiction. The game will showcase our unique cultural identity in New Zealand and highlight beautiful regions of our country in a contemporary and original story across popular platforms.

This is a journey that will take the player into a world of mystery and impending mayhem while discovering the truth behind an ancient secret.

AGENDA
– 6:00p | Doors open
– 6:10p | Welcome
– 6:20p | Guardian: A journey from idea to now.
– The importance and uniqueness of telling Maori stories.
– Using a narrative script engine with Unity.
– Community announcements.
– 7:00 | Meetup ends – Progress Bar

When and Where

Wednesday 12 September 2018
6pm – 7pm

Room TBC
AUT City Campus
St Paul St
Auckland CBD

How Much

Free

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Meetup Page for event
The Auckland Game Development Meetup
Guardian

The Great Kererū Count – Nationwide – 21-30 September 2018

What

The Great Kererū Count is NZ’s biggest citizen science project to help gather information on the abundance and distribution of the New Zealand pigeon — also known as kererū, kūkū or kūkupa.

Everyone in New Zealand can get involved with the Great Kererū Count, whether you see any kererū or not, sharing your observations with us will help build up a clearer picture of where the kererū live, how many there are and what they are feeding on.

The humble kererū is one of New Zealand’s most valuable assets when it comes to our native forests. Long before humans came to this country, kererū have been undertaking the largest plant restoration project the country has ever seen. Kererū are the only bird left in New Zealand that are able to swallow and disperse the seeds from our largest native trees such as tawa, taraire, pūriri and matai. Kererū can live for 21+ years and are essential for native bush regeneration. Their disappearance would be a disaster for our native forests.

This year we have 3 Options available with multiple ways to make your kererū observations – Computer, Laptops, Tablets and Smart Phones are all ways you can get your observations into us.

When and Where

21-30 September 2018

All over New Zealand

How Much

Free

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The Great Kererū CountWebsite

Discussion Sessions for the Cyber Security Strategy Refresh – Wellington – 30 August 2018

What

A further chance to contribute to the Cyber Security Strategy refresh

We need your input.The National Cyber Policy Office has developed a strawman Cyber Security Strategy. We invite Connect Smart partners and members of the public to give us feedback on the strawman strategy.

A copy of the strawman Cyber Security Strategy can be found here

The strawman is the result of feedback on New Zealand’s cyber security settings from earlier public workshops and stakeholder engagement. You can see the outputs from the workshops here.

The vision in the strawman strategy is to make New Zealand secure and confident in a digital world. It has four values that reflect what is important for building the online environment New Zealand needs:

  • Partnerships are Essential
  •  People are secure online
  • Economic growth is enabled
  •  National security is upheld

The strawman strategy includes six priority areas. These priority areas reflect what we have heard through our outreach and engagement about where we need to collectively intensify our efforts

  • Cyber security aware and active citizens
  • Strong and capable cyber security workforce
  • Resilient and responsive NZ
  • Internationally active
  • Proactively tackle cybercrime
  • Adapt and challenge

To help collate the feedback, we have produced a feedback worksheet that can be found here. If you want to contribute, please download the worksheet, put down your views, and email it to connectsmart@dpmc.govt.nz.

The NCPO will also be holding discussion sessions during the week of 27 August in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Click here to find out more

The National Cyber Policy Office

When and Where

KPMG, 10 Customhouse Quay, Wellington.

30 August, 1.00pm – 4.00pm. Click here to register

Drop in: 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Discussion Session: 2.00pm – 3.00pm
Discussion Session: 3.00pm – 4.00pm

How Much

Free

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Refresh of New Zealand’s Cyber Security Strategy and Action Plan 2018.

Cyber Security Strategy Refresh.

National Cyber Policy Office (NCPO).

A further chance to contribute to the Cyber Security Strategy refresh and Discussion Sessions for the Cyber Security Strategy Refresh.

The diagram featured is the 2015 National Cyber Security Strategy.