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Libraries/News
- Kwoff - Australian news
- ABC Central West NSW - news
- NSW Public Libraries had $350,000 cut from budget forcing them to become user-pays - SMH 9/07
- Orange Public Library being forced to become user-pays - CWD 10/07
Broadband/VoIP/Webcam
- Atlassian Portal Device - Webcam link between buildings in Sydney for developers
- Digium Blog - VoIP PBX
- ADSL2+ Exchanges in Australia
- CENTROC on broadband in Central West NSW - CWD 23/1/07
- Veridas wholesale ISP closing down cuts off 30,000 dialup users - story 9/06
- CENTROC (Central NSW Councils)
Music/Arts
- Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA), Tamworth NSW - January country music festival, famous country artists
- Illawarra Folk Festival
- 4MBS - Brisbane, online, classic, jazz
- Central NSW Museums includes Orange, Blayney, Cabonne
- Barunga Festival, via Katherine NT - aboriginal culture, sports and music!
- Black Cockatoo Band, Barunga, NT
- Mungindi Music Festival - near NSW/Qld Border - 28-30/9/07
- 2MCR 100.3 - jazz, country - Macarthur Community Radio, Campbelltown NSW
- RooRythmics, Macarthur Sounds and Ten Penny Bit (my bush bands, past and present)
- Barker Vale Brothers - Blackberry Blossom
Health
- Senate Inquiry: The factors affecting the supply of health services and medical professionals in rural areas - 95 submissions
- Australian Medical Association (AMA)
- Practical plan needed to get doctors to live and work in rural Australia - AMA 12/1/12
  - AMA Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee Inquiry into the Factors Affecting the Supply of Health Services and Medical Professionals in Rural Areas
- Australian Immigration - Overseas Qualifications Units
- foreign doctors leaving remote areas in Australia after 10 years term because of substandard housing and English test bungling 1/12 - aboriginal settlements
- NSW has lowest public dental health expenditure in Australia - C Moore 8/8/11 Hansard - $23.40/yr/public patient
- Mid Western Consumers Advisory Group (CAG) - mental health, Orange NSW
- Detox and Rehab List for NSW - Ripple Affect, Orange NSW - Blog
- Men's Sheds - helps men who are isolated or depressed - Member for Burrinjuck speech 6/3/08
- CSU Dentistry, Orange NSW - to fill shortage of country dentists from country students
- Mental Health Foundation ACT - high rate of mental illness in Central West NSW
- Rural Doctors Association of Australia - huge shortage of doctors in country NSW - one town would pay $100,000 to doctor to stay in their town (near Young)
- NSW Rural Doctors Network - 100 doctors short
- Doctors 4 the Bush - CSU Bathurst NSW
- Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine - autism online training
- Australian Bureau of Statistics Australian Health Survey
- Teen Challenge International - drug counselling for teenagers
- Kairos Prison Ministry Australia - reduces recidivism (repeat offenders) by 21% by prison visitation to get prisoners out of crime cycle - very important in Orange where youth crime is very high compared to the NSW state average
- Incarceration in the USA - very high levels and recidivism compared to Australia - they need better counselling and visitation program like Australia
- Youth incarceration in USA - higher than any other country - they need heaps of prayer and visitation to deal with restless youth rather than lock them up
- US Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Groups
- Brisbane Adobe User Groups - Web developers and designers
- Brisbane Jelly - The Edge, State Library of Qld - open wifi area to work with other developers in ad hoc way
- Qt Community Brisbane - relevant to Nokia MeeGo N9/N950 smartphone developers
- Alzheimers Association - dementia carer respite and moral support - help to stop freight train of ageing population crushing us in Australia in next 20 years (2030)!
- TM Forum - telecommunications industry group for standards and processes - NBN
- InDesign User Group
- IEEE QLD Events
- Google Technology User Groups (GTUGS)
- Western Sydney IT Cluster (WSITC) - WSITC Linkedin Group - Parramatta
- Local Government Web Network - web developers in local govt in Australia
- toostep - communities including project management
- Ruby on Rails, Oceania
- SydPUG (Postgresql)
- SyPy (Python)
- NSW.NET
- Sydney .NET Users Group
- HUMBUG - Brisbane UNIX/Linux group at UQ
- Yahoo! Groups Web Indexing
- ICV (Indigenous Community Volunteers)
- Brisbane PHP
- Brisbane MySQL
- Brisbane Drupal Developers
- ATUG (Australian Telecommunications Users Group) - watchdog
- Bathurst Wireless - wifi
- UQ ITEE Alumni (I am one)
  - ITEE Reunited - UQ IT alumni - dead
  - UQ ITEE LinkedIn Group - 12/11 - replaces Reunited
  - Innovation Expo 10/2009
  - UQ Centenary Alumni Celebration 2-4/7/2010
  - UQ Graduate Contact - alumni magazine
- Linux Australia
- Wesley Mission - Podcasts and RSS Feeds - to fill void of poor preaching in country areas
- Bloom Asia - anti human trafficking in Cambodia
Conferences/Awards/Films
- AIIA Cloud Summit with Vivek Kundra ex US CIO, Canberra, 15/2/12
- MongoDB Event, Sydney 17/3/12 UTS - opensource Python NOSQL database system
- Canberra Games Society - CANCON 27-29/1/12
- Linux Conf Australia 16-20/1/12 Ballarat VIC
- Global Android Dev Camp 17-19 Feb 2012
- Spatial@Gov - 15-17/11/11 - Canberra
- Code Retreat - Brisbane - 3 Dec 2011 - Corey Haines of CodeRetreat.com
- Windows Phone Developer Workshop - 8-9 Oct 2011 Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne
- Developer Developer Developer Brisbane - 26 Nov 2011, Brisbane
- Indie Authors' Festival, 29 Oct 2011, Gold Coast
- Asia Pacific Cities Summit, Brisbane 6-8 July 2011 - 70 cities coming
- Commonwealth Bank Small Business Forums
- Australian Computer Society (ACS) NSW Events - computer professionals
- FOSDEM 2011, Belgium - free and opensource software developers
- YOW! Australia Developer Conferences - Dec 2011, Melb, Bris
- Justice Modeling, 12-13/7/10, Griffith Uni, Brisbane
- NatStats 15-17 Sep 2010 Sydney
- TEDxSydney 22-5-10
- Devops Downunder - Atlassian, Sydney 1-2/5/10
- PyCon - python conference, Sydney, 26-27/6/10
- Blackberry Developer Day - Sydney Hilton 24.3.10
- Webblast, Sydney 25.3.10
- DrupalCon - San Franciso 19-21 Apr 2010
- Canberra BarCamp - open source 6.2.10 ANU
- KM Australia - knowledge management - 4-7 Aug 2009, Sydney
- Nokia
  - Nokia Developer - Code Camp - March 2009
  - Forum Nokia Developer Conference Sydney, 2 March 2010
- Internet Librarian 2009, London, UK, 14-16 Oct 2009
- FOSS4G, Sydney 20-23/10/09 - geospatial open source
- Microsoft Australia Tech Ed, Gold Coast, 30/8-2/9/2011
- Open Source Developers' Conference - Melbourne, 24-26 Nov 2010
- Adobe eSeminars - July 2008
- Home-Based Business Week, NSW - 19-23 May 2008 - NSW State Govt
- 2008 Beijing Open Office Conference 15-17/10/08
- Web Directions South 2007 - Sydney
- Software Freedom Day - annual event worldwide
- WebDU - Sydney 6-7/5/10
- Identity Management, Sydney 28-30/11/07
- Gitex Technology Week - Dubai UAE 18-22 Oct 2009
- Open CeBIT - Sydney 20-22/5/08
- OpenOffice.org Annual Conference - Barcelona, Spain 9/07
- linux.conf.au 2011 - Brisbane 1/11
- Australian Open Source Symposium till 2004
- O'Reilly Conferences - USA - open source
- NICTA Calendar - Australian Technology Park, Redfern, Sydney
- Melbourne Convention and Visitors Centre - big directory of Victorian conferences of all sorts
Ecology/Mining/Agriculture/Weather
- Early Warning Network (EWN) - early weather alerts (SMS, email and Facebook) - all of Australia not just Brisbane based on postcode of person registering
- Cleaner Energy Future - Australian ALP Govt carbon tax 7/11
- Centre for Appropriate Technology - Derby, WA - aborigines infrastructure
- Wormboss - Sheep CRC research centre
- Save the Kimberley from LNG mining in the Browse Basin, WA by Inpex (Japanese firm)
- Shape our world - Optus/AWC
- Sidoarjo, Java, Indonesia Mud Flow disaster from gas pipline explosion - 5/06- - Santos responsible - bad transport and communications since event according to my brother who lives up there - mobile phone SMS is best way to get through
- Jackgreen Energy collapses due to heat wave in 2009 - 100% green power
- Australian Dept of Climate Change - Global Warming in Australia - 46% increase in CO2 between 1990-2004 (138Mt to 202Mt) in electricity generation
- Planet Ark - portal
- Australian National Greenhouse Gas Inventory - staggering source of alarming information about CO2 buildup
Charity/War Memorials/Aged/Foreign Aid/NGOs
- Impatient Optimists - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Malaria etc
- Partners in Health - Africa, Haiti
- IAM - Afghanistan
- Operation Mercy - Afghanistan
- agedcareonline.com.au - large directory of aged care facilities in Australia, many run by churches
- Vivian Bullwinkel, Australian Nurse, WWII POW
Businesses/Banks/Finance
- Gold Coast Tech Space - incubator
- Pushstart - IT startup mentoring
- Vodafone loses 378,000 customers in 3 mths for lousy service - MIS 7/11 - good!
- Financial Crisis 2009 - portal
- The Australia Institute (TAI) - Canberra thinktank re economy
- MySQL takeover by Oracle
  - Oracle got Sun and MySQL after all in 1/10
  - to stop Oracle taking over MySQL and raising costs of open source software and destroying small Web developer's edge
  - Monty's blog re Oracle's takeover of MySQL when it bought Sun Microsystems late in 2009
- JAXenter - Java developer magazine
- Flying Solo - business coach, NSW SRD speaker in Home Based Business Week 5/09
- Australian Institute of Company Directors
- John Cook Real Estate, Orange NSW
- Kiva - microloans by individuals in the West to small businesses in 3rd world countries
- Wesley Financial Stress and Its Impact
- NETT small business mag
- Orange Christian Book Centre, NSW - good book reviews and source of news on local Christian events
- DirectoryAustralia.com - tons of directories
- Everything Linux
Government and Education
- Australian Govt Economic Stimulus Plan - mashup of where money is being spent
- MyRegion - regional portal
- Make a Stand - petition to keep male-female marriage instead of adding same sex marriage in Australia
- Australian Govt Budget 2011 ICT priorities - very important!
- Gov 2.0 conference 11 Mar 2010
- Kate Lundy - Canberra ALP Senator for IT
- Brisbane City Council - city portal
- OpenAustralia.org - Australian Hansard and parliament using social media
- Cowra Region, NSW
- Aboriginal Independent Community Schools, WA - impressive, SP Walker my father worked in this area as a UAM missionary teacher in the 1940s in Mt Margaret and Gnowangerup WA and led to this result!
- Christian Schools Australia
- Rudd sorry speech to black people 13/2/08
- Alcohol Info - NSW Govt prevention strategy for alcohol abuse
- CENTROC - Central West Regional Organisation of Councils, NSW
- AGSM - UNSW
- CityMayors.com
- Canobolas LAC, NSW Police - to keep hoons at bay
- Anti-Social Behaviour in NSW - 28% or higher
Research
- National Church Life Survey (NCLS) - every 5 years (2011)
- John Lions Award for Contribution to Open Software, UNSW
  - infamous 'Lion's Commentary on UNIX 6th ed, 1976'
  - story
  - Linux and USENIX (sysop organisation) and UNIX veterans support this venture
  - Appeal to establish the John Lions Chair in Operating Systems (UNSW)
Tools
- User Agent Switcher for Firefox - to allow people using Firefox to open Internet Explorer-only sites

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Last Updated: 1 Feb 2012 11:58

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