he DigitalNZ API HackFest is making its way to Auckland. Telecom are kindly hosting this event for us.

10am-5pm, Saturday 7 November 2009
Telecom, Hereford St, Auckland
http://digitalnz.org

DigitalNZ Search aggregates information about NZ digital content from more than 65 content providers and makes them available via an API. You can get a glimpse of what's inside at http://search.digitalnz.org

Come along and

* Make nice stuff using the DigitalNZ API
* Whip up some code samples to help other developers kick-start their own DigitalNZ API creations
* Consume pizza, beer and sugary confections

Some examples of things that have happened at other HackFests: http://digitalnz.org/widget-gallery?type=applications

We're not just looking for developers. Other people we'd also love to come along are designers who can help make the apps look shiny or people with great ideas for apps.

Bring yourself and your laptop. We'll provide the WiFi. This is a low-key event - feel free to come along for however long you can, even just a couple of hours.

Numbers are limited, so please RSVP to jo.eaton@natlib.govt.nz
I'd love to see some Kiwi Foo Camp people there!

More info:
http://digitalnz.org/blog/news/article-digitalnz-api-hackfest-auckland-7...

Just a reminder that the LCA2010 funding programmes are due to close this Friday so get your applications in quick!

These funds are designed to fund delegates who contribute to the Open Source community who, without financial assistance, would not be able to attend LCA2010.

* InternetNZ Oceania Programme - funds people living in
Australasia-Pacific Region

* InternetNZ Kiwi Fellowship - funds people living in New Zealand

* Google Diverstiy Programme - for people in diverse groups.

To apply, see: http://www.lca2010.org.nz/register/funding

Registration is now open for Kiwi PyCon 2009!

1. Conference schedule: http://nz.pycon.org/talks-cfp/schedule/
2. Registration page: http://nz.pycon.org/registrations/
3. After entering your registration details, you'll be emailed an
invoice for payment and following payment your place will be
confirmed!

Last night, we announced 3x LCA2010 funding programmes to assist thosewho contribute to the Open Source communities:
http://www.lca2010.org.nz/media/news/89

- InternetNZ Oceania Funding Programme (funds people living in the
Australasia and pacific)
- InternetNZ Kiwi Fellowship (funds new zealanders)
- Google Diversity Programme (funds for member of minority groups within open source - female, disabled, or other group.)

More details of the funding programmes can be found here:
http://www.lca2010.org.nz/register/funding

The 2,500 hectare Turere valley about an hour’s walk from Wainuiomata is now the home of a thriving kiwi colony. And it has been 300 years since kiwi have roamed outside fenced areas in the Wellington region.

http://blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/2009/08/09/kiwiblog/

gosh darn kiwis are cute.

Kiwi PyCon 2009 http://nz.pycon.org/ is an independent, community-run, community-controlled and not-for-profit conference dedicated to the Python
programming language, Python applications, toolkits and frameworks. It also features social events and a chance to meet fellow Python users. It is organised by the New Zealand Python User Group.

Kiwi PyCon 2009 will be taking place at the Canterbury Innovation Incubator in Christchurch on the week end from the 7th through 8th November 2009. We are looking for Talks, Tutorials, Lightning Talks, Demos, Open Spaces and lots of hall way interaction. To submit a talk, please visit our submissions page at
http://nz.pycon.org/submit-talk

Important Dates

* Submission deadline of proposals:
SUN, 2 August 2009
(But the sooner the better!)

* Acceptance notification:
SUN, 20 September 2009

* Deadline for handouts and camera ready paper:
SUN, 11 October 2009

* The Event:
7-8 November 2009

http://nzpug.org/KiwiPyCon/CallForProposals

News items from Renegade Economists | 3CR Community Radio 855 AMSource: www.3cr.org.auBlack Screens: Brenda Wallace from the Wellington activist community discusses kiwi government tactics to reduce internet freedoms. Karl is back form NZ and whips thru the growing media storm we are building with co-host Alice Bleby. Dont forget Speed Renting next Tues 17th.

New Zealand Goes All Black Against Three Strikes | Electronic Frontier FoundationSource: www.eff.orgWhether you're following a New Zealander on Twitter, or have friended a Kiwi on Facebook, you will not have missed Net users from that country protesting Section 92A in NZ's new Copyright Act. Thousands are turning their sites and their icons black to mourn the coming enforcement of the provision, w...

Geeky community buzz, originally uploaded by Br3nda

here's the end whiteboard from my session at kiwi.

it was a bit of a troll that Wellington's tech community has got it going on, and Auckland doesn't.

The end conclusion, which was shared with wellington and auckland geeks, is that Wellington people are very open to telling each other what they're doing. Auckland companies have an idea that profit requires secrecy. I think they're wrong.

One person said that Wellington's events were all non-profit. I had to object that every one of those events are linked to profit in some way - even if there is no entry fee. The attendees come away after lots of networking and armed with new information. Business is done at these events, and done by geeks.

as an aside: i can't describe how much i don't want to be the community lady for wellington. So many women get into technology and then become the soft-tech community dispute-solver person. There's buckets of very awesome women doing that already. Can't i stay in the tech please?

3 News > Science-Tech > Story > Kiwi file-sharers to be 'presumed guilty' next monthSource: www.3news.co.nz"While copyright owners can take legal action against those Internet users engaging in infringing peer to peer file-sharing, it is difficult for them to identify any particular user. In addition, they would then have to take the users to court."    it's too hard to idntify who is breaking the law, so lets just punish anyone we want.    

3 News > Kiwi file-sharers to be 'presumed guilty' next monthSource: www.3news.co.nzA controversial amendment to the NZ Copyright Act will mean that if a file-sharer is accused of copyright infringement, they are immediately presumed guilty.

The implementation of Section 92A would force the termination of internet connections and websites without evidence or trial, bypassing the...

SoCNoC, pronouned "sock-nock", is the Southern Cross Novel Challenge.
http://www.kiwiwriters.org/my/challenge/site/socnoc-2008.html

Every year thousands of writers create novels of 50,000 words in 30 days as part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). SoCNoC gives writers in the southern hemisphere the benefit of a long weekend and wintry weather that we don't get for the November challenge.

awesome stuff - and they have a twitter presence at http://twitter.com/kiwiwriters

p.s. another awesome thing is that http://kiwiwriters.org is built apon a opensource frame work called Zaapt. This is completely homegrown kiwi stuff - written in perl and powered by mason and postgresql.