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Meetup in Wellington on 24 or 25 September

I'm going to be in Wellington on 24 or 25 September.

Anyone keen for a Dataversity meetup on one of those days?

I'd suggest an open invitation to anyone interested in discussing local
government biodata management with the following agenda.

Making sure everyone knows everyone.
Swapping notes about biodata management.
Feedback about Dataversity itself.

Anyone keen to host (ie pick a time and book a room for) this?

I'm a starter.

Lindsay

I'll be in Wellington those too days too.
I can probably get us a meeting room at DOC if needed.

I'm currently doing a review of the Biodiversity web site
http://www.biodiversity.govt.nz, and would love to get this group's input
into the future direction for the site.

I could do anytime on the 24th, or 10:30 on the 25th.

Julian

We (DOC) are also keen to get a representative along to the proposed
dataversity meeting in Wellington as we are dealing with many of the issues
that have been and will be discussed as well. It seems a good opportunity
to get paths of communication established between DOC and Regional Council
people. There is still some discussion about who this will be as I am the
appointed contact person but I am away on leave.

lynette Hartley

Lynette Hartley, Data Analyst, Ecosystems and Species Unit
Five Minute Bird Count Database Administrator
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5MBC website

Department of Conservation, Research and Development Group
PO Box 13049, Christchurch 8141, New Zealand, DDI (03) 378 9562

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I'm keen to attend but am unable to make it to Wellington. Any chance of
getting a room with video conference facilities?

Thanks for your responses so far, folks. Looks like we're going to have some
diversity of participation, which is excellent.

The time-frame is now narrowed to anytime on the Weds 24th, or 10:30 AM on
Thurs 25th September.

Julian, can you get us a room at DoC that has video conference facilities?

Jim, do you need any particular type of video conference facility?

Others, any further interest (including via video conference)?

All, any further preferences for day or time?

And please spread the word. Let's have as large and diverse a participant group
as we can, whilst retaining a clear focus on local government biodata
management.

If you can't make it, don't worry. I will make sure that notes from the session
are posted to the online group.

DOC's Conference Room is free for use on Wednesday 24 September from 1.30
onwards if you want it (I've tentatively booked it out). It is not available
at 10.30 on Thursday though, and does not have video conference facilities.
Smaller rooms will be available, so it depends on how many are coming.

Ana

Ana Cotter
Senior Communications Advisor
Research and Development Group
Department of Conservation
VPN: 8281 Phone: 04 471 3281

The conference room sounds good. Since DOC doesn't have video conferencing
facilities, Jim would audio conferencing suffice?

Ana, is that viable from that room?

Julian

I confirm the following date, time and venue for the Wellington Dataversity
meeting.

10:30-12:30, Thursday 25 September
the Fishbowl, Level 9
Greater Wellington Regional Ccouncil
142 Wakefield St
Wellington

I also confirm that Shirley Volweiler and Benno Kappers, who are both involved
with DoC's NHMS project will be at the meeting.

Jim and Nancy, I am working on getting audio-conference gear set up for the
meeting.

The following people have expressed interest in participating, so we should
have an interesting session.

Lindsay Vaughan, Tasman District Council
Jim Fretwell, EBoP (via video/audio-conference)
Nancy Willems, EBoP (via video/audio-conference)
Julian Carver (to discuss review of http://www.biodiversity.govt.nz)
(Lynette Hartley suggested someone from DoC)
http://dataversity.org.nz/r/post/51Fzsx9P4uPUNDlSTWSwWb
Philippa Crisp, GWRC
Kim Broad, GWRC
Nikki McArthur, GWRC
Summer Warr, GWRC
Owen Spearpoint, GWRC
Jim McLeod, EW and OneLand
Benno Kappers, DoC
Shirley Vollweiler, DoC

cheers,

Hi Dan

Is there any chance of having an audio link to the meeting via phone? I
can't justify the travel to Wellington for a two hour meeting, but would
be keen to participate from my workplace if possible.

Cheers

Lindsay

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or 25 September

I confirm the following date, time and venue for the Wellington
Dataversity meeting.

10:30-12:30, Thursday 25 September
the Fishbowl, Level 9
Greater Wellington Regional Ccouncil
142 Wakefield St
Wellington

I also confirm that Shirley Volweiler and Benno Kappers, who are both
involved with DoC's NHMS project will be at the meeting.

Jim and Nancy, I am working on getting audio-conference gear set up for
the meeting.

The following people have expressed interest in participating, so we
should have an interesting session.

Lindsay Vaughan, Tasman District Council
Jim Fretwell, EBoP (via video/audio-conference)
Nancy Willems, EBoP (via video/audio-conference)
Julian Carver (to discuss review of http://www.biodiversity.govt.nz)
(Lynette Hartley suggested someone from DoC)
http://dataversity.org.nz/r/post/51Fzsx9P4uPUNDlSTWSwWb
Philippa Crisp, GWRC
Kim Broad, GWRC
Nikki McArthur, GWRC
Summer Warr, GWRC
Owen Spearpoint, GWRC
Jim McLeod, EW and OneLand
Benno Kappers, DoC
Shirley Vollweiler, DoC

cheers,

Dan

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Hi Lindsay,

> Is there any chance of having an audio link to the meeting via phone? I
> can't justify the travel to Wellington for a two hour meeting, but would
> be keen to participate from my workplace if possible.

Yes, I am working on that.

Any others interested in participating in the meeting via phone?

I would be keen on the audio link as well thanks
cheers
Kathy

Kathy Mortimer
Land Management Officer - Environment Fund
Northland Regional Council
09 4384639
Direct Dial (09) 4701110
Mobile 0274393774

Hi Dan

EW has a video conference device, just wondering if you have audio link
via video for this conference?

Thanks

Yanbin

If video conference is not available I'm keen to join via audio link

cheers

Hi Dan

Yes, I would be interested too if we can do an audio link.

Thanks

Good afternoon,
I confirm I will be attending Wellington on the 25th.
Will you have PowerPoint facilities?
I can pre-circulate files for the virtual people (and others).

With help from Philippa Crisp, I have confirmed audio-conference gear (sorry,
no video-conference facility this time around).

The (toll-free in NZ) teleconference number will be 0800 449 288, with the
guest access code 22691628#.

Here are the time and venue again.

10:30-12:30, Thursday 25 September
the Fishbowl, Level 9
Greater Wellington Regional Ccouncil
142 Wakefield St
Wellington

Here's a draft agenda. If your name is here, please feel to correct my
description of your topic.

Introductions
Julian Carver — review of http://biodiversity.govt.nz
Jim McLeod, EW — OneLand
Shirley Vollweiler, DoC — NHMS
Benno Kappers, DoC — Information-sharing

If others have a particular topic to present on, please let me know.

We will have a data projector and a laptop so PowerPoint is possible. If you
are planning to present on one of the above topics, please plan to keep your
presentation brief, to allow plenty of time for discussion. If you have
documents, or even an informal report or presentation, please post them up to
this group in advance of the meeting, so that we can start the meeting with
progress already made.

cheers,

I will be attending the Wellington meeting along with Philippa, but Owen
Spearpoint and Nikki McArthur will be attending the Auckland meeting
while up there attending Ecological Society conference.

Kim Broad

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Sent: Thursday, 18 September 2008 07:30 p.m.
To: Dataversity Public Discussion
Subject: Re: [dataversity public discussion] Meetup in Wellington on 24
or 25 September

With help from Philippa Crisp, I have confirmed audio-conference gear
(sorry, no video-conference facility this time around).

The (toll-free in NZ) teleconference number will be 0800 449 288, with
the guest access code 22691628#.

Here are the time and venue again.

10:30-12:30, Thursday 25 September
the Fishbowl, Level 9
Greater Wellington Regional Ccouncil
142 Wakefield St
Wellington

Here's a draft agenda. If your name is here, please feel to correct my
description of your topic.

Introductions
Julian Carver - review of http://biodiversity.govt.nz
Jim McLeod, EW - OneLand
Shirley Vollweiler, DoC - NHMS
Benno Kappers, DoC - Information-sharing

If others have a particular topic to present on, please let me know.

We will have a data projector and a laptop so PowerPoint is possible. If
you are planning to present on one of the above topics, please plan to
keep your presentation brief, to allow plenty of time for discussion. If
you have documents, or even an informal report or presentation, please
post them up to this group in advance of the meeting, so that we can
start the meeting with progress already made.

cheers,

Dan

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Sorry for the delay in circulating this. I have just caught up with
Dan's suggestions.

Hi All,

Here is a quick highlights report from the meeting held on Thursday 25
September. Please forgive but correct any inaccuracies in my notes, and
add comments or questions, whether you were in the meeting or not.

My thanks to the following who participated.

Kathy Mortimer, Northand Regional Council
Lisa Forester, Northand Regional Council
Gina Williams, DoC Whangarei
Leigh Honnor, Whangarei District Council
Jim Fretwell, EBoP
Jim McLeod, EW
Elise Smith, Community Biodata in Taranaki
Benno Kappers, DoC
Kim Broad, Greater Wellington Regional Council
Summer Warr, Greater Wellington Regional Council
Shirley Vollweiler, DoC
Liz Kolster, State Services Commission
Lyndsay Vaughan, Tasman District Council
Madan Gautam, DoC
Julian Carver, independent
Dan Randow, Dataversity Coordinator

My apologies for the late start, and thanks to Jim McLeod for helping to
get the gear set up. Sadly, I did not manage to make an audio recording
of the meeting :-(. What we did get was some great inter-sectoral
engagement, and the opening of a number of topics that will attract
ongoing discussion here in Dataversity.

There's a summary below (be sure to click the button, if you are
viewing via the web), and I'll ask all the contributors to open separate
topics for the issues they raised if they have not already done so.

I also did manage to take some photos of those who were present in the
meeting room at GWRC. They're visible below, if you view this post on
the website.

My primary conclusion from the meeting is that for all the complexity of
biodata management problems, Dataversity members can benefit from the
global and national communities that are working to increase alignment
and provide tools, standard and systems. Although there are many
constraints in regional and territorial authorities, problems like
metadata standards, data collection methods, and even use of systems do
not have to solved multiple times. There will be no quick fixes. Our
work here will require small but steady steps forward. As we now have
this conversation open, we are in a good position to keep it going. I
will keep inviting people into the group, and curating this community's
resources. Please, ask questions, or share your ideas. You should find
plenty to catch your interest, below.

cheers,

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