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HealthHack 2014: the story of a bar chart

Everybody knows that the start of the pipeline in life sciences is full of women. Everybody knows the people who get grants are senior male researchers. It’s a lot easier to explain with pictures.

Open mapping tools and self-referential post-irony, together at last

Right, so, this is an upcycled information disseminator made on an open tech stack. Crowdsourced data points, yeah. Where from? The People. Us. All of us. Everyone contributed. We just, know, got together over beers and… Glenn made icons – you know Glenn, he’s got those pants, and that guy with the beard – no, […]

Who was that at drinks last night?

Wanna find more details about the person with the cool project you didn’t quite talk with last night? Try stalking them on the OKFN Melbourne Meetup page or the Code For Melbourne Meetup.

Melbourne Drinks May 21

Moar drinks! Moar dumplings! Let us know you’re coming, please. As usual, these drinks are for anyone in Melbourne who does anything open: education, government, food, software, hardware – just come along. Photos from last time: If you came to the March meetup, we’ll be playing the ‘Who are you and what are your interests” game […]

Melbourne open communities drinks

Drinks were so successful….We thought we might hold them again!                 Thanks for coming along everyone! That was excellent. Can’t remember the last time I heard ‘You should talk to X!’ so many times.     Watch out for notices in March – we will be holding drinks […]