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the goings on in Wellington, that i've heard of recently:

Tim McNarama is rallying a Sahana New Zealand cluster. Their online presence is at Launchpad.net. They've had hackfest and strategic planning meetings - there's been lots of great designs including distributed models (borrowing from laconca) and New Zealand customisations.

Don Christie, and the New Zealand Open Source Society have launched the Public Sector Remix, a desktop operating system specialising in government / public sector.

Tabitha Roder continues to lead a group of OLPC testers who meet every Saturday at the Southern Cross.

Nigel McNie, and the rest of the mahara team released 1.2.0beta1.

Who have i missed out? Who's doing Open Source mighty deeds in Wellington?

Worldchanging: Bright Green: DIY Bike RouteSource: www.worldchanging.comEver wonder which paths cyclists naturally take through the city? Not satisfied with the location or extent of designated bike lanes? Feel like other street users are quick to dismiss the presence of cyclists?

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.