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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
- 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
Music
- 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)
Health
- 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
- Teen Challenge International - drug counselling for teenagers
Groups
- Fusion Orange NSW
- InDesign User Group
- IEEE QLD Events
- Google Technology User Groups (GTUGS)
- Western Sydney IT Cluster (WSITC) - WSITC Linkedin Group - NSW State and Regional Development (SRD)
- Local Government Web Network - web developers in local govt in Australia
- 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
- ATUG (Australian Telecommunications Users Group) - watchdog
- Bathurst Wireless - wifi
- ITEE Reunited - UQ IT alumni
  - UQ ITEE Alumni Centenary Dinner 21 Oct 2010, Brisbane
  - 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
Conferences/Awards/Films
- 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 Code Camp March 2009
  - Forum Nokia Developer Conference Sydney, 2 March 2010
  - Code of Partnership - Forum Nokia - Sydney 11 May 2010
- Internet Librarian 2009, London, UK, 14-16 Oct 2009
- SOA Summit 2009, Scottsdale AZ USA 5-6 May 2009
- FOSS4G, Sydney 20-23/10/09 - geospatial open source
- Forum Nokia Code Camp, Sydney, 25-26/9/2008
- Microsoft Australia Tech Ed, Gold Coast, 8-11 Sep 2009
- Open Source Developers' Conference - Sydney, Dec 2008
- 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
- Sun Open Source Software Community Innovation Awards Program - $1M USD
- 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
- 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)
- Wallaby Conservation, SA - 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 - 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
- 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
- The Australia Institute (TAI) - Canberra thinktank re economy
- Business Technology Asia - IT and business news from Singapore
- Flying Solo - business coach, NSW SRD speaker in Home Based Business Week 5/09
- Australian Institute of Company Directors
- 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
- Regional Business Magazine - NSW country
- Everything Linux
Government and Education
- Gov 2.0 conference 11 Mar 2010
- Kate Lundy - Canberra ALP Senator for IT
- Our Brisbane - 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
- John Lions Chair in Operating Systems, UNSW - fund raising - infamous 'Lion's Commentary on UNIX 6th ed' - story - Linux, USENIX (sysop organisation) and UNIX veterans support this venture
Tools
- User Agent Switcher for Firefox - to allow people using Firefox to open Internet Explorer-only sites

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