We had our first OSDGC meeting last night. Thanks to everyone that came - I thought it was a good start (about 10 or 12 people). It was good to just talk without all the usual installfests and hardware hacking that you get at LUG meetings. I have to admit I also rather enjoyed my first go on a Wii (I lead such a sheltered life these days - no time for computer games). Thanks to Dave and the guys at inqling for letting us use their place.
A few of us were lamenting about the lack of community on the Gold Coast and the failure of the IT Gold Coast Forum to really speak to people like us, so I setup this very very simple site:
I was going to make it goldcoastit to differentiate from http://itgoldcoast.com but then realised the obvious problem in putting the name around that way - so I just shamelessly copied theirs. If you know of any other groups that should be listed on there - please let me know
Anyway - the site has no real agenda other than promoting better a better IT community on the Gold Coast. It's all hosted on google at the moment, so easy to put a calendar and a news feed on there. There seemed to be some interest in planets last night, so I thought we could maybe do a gold coast planet for all the bloggers. So if you are on the Gold Coast please send me your blogs URLs - I was thinking we should make the planet an open one (like http://planet.linux.org.au) - not limited by specific tags or anything (I think some people call it a universe).
