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Hey New Zealand Drupal Chix.

Many organisers of technical conferences, meetups, and dinners want to have more gender-balance in their lineups, but they don't know where to find technical women speakers.

Enter http://speak.net.nz, a simple directory and connections system to help technical women speakers and event organisers to find each other.

It needs a few more women to sign up for launch. The site will launch early April.

If you're a woman working with technology, even if you've never spoken infront of a group before, please register and list your expertise.

Monday 8th October 2007 - Announcing the New Zealand PostgreSQL Users' Group

NZ PostgreSQL Users' Group (NZPGUG) will bring together NZ's PostgreSQL users
to discuss the world's best database server.

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system. It has more
than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned
it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.

NZPGUG is open to professionals, students, and enthusiasts. Activities include

lets make the first one a meetup, with plans to do more tech and skills sharing at the second one.

LOCATION = Shooters.
(Courtenay place)
they have long tables suitable for actually talking (not just standing around).

combined with PHPUG -- feel free to also RSVP here:
http://php.meetup.com/346/calendar/5972715/

Close up article about Open Source, with interviews of a some awesome kiwis including gnat and Siggy.

Video is free download from tvnz.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/497100/1090817

and also on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y068GJ1OEC8