The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try to bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter and …

CCHS (aka Melbourne HackerSpace) is an enthusiastic group of hardware hobbyists and/or software programmers, located in Melbourne, Australia. We enjoy getting together to build new and challenging technology projects and curious gadgets for fun! We meet several times every week and welcome visitors and newcomers who wish to make things and learn about technology, e.g 3D printers or robots. You don’t need to be an expert to participate. We are gradually accumulating equipment and tools, as well a …

This group assembles a mix of cartographers, GIS experts, developers, data journalists and open data enthusiasts. Bring your laptop, and hack on any project that interests you: a better bike map of Melbourne? visualise public transport data? make art from Twitter, Flickr or data.gov.au data? We play with technologies like TileMill, PostGIS, Leaflet, D3 - and anything else fun that lets us mix data from various sources in interesting, useful and entertaining ways.

If you are interested in issues relating the Internet in Australia and worldwide, then this might be of interest to you. This Meetup group is an experiment to encourage Members of ISOC-AU and those who are interested in getting together for a chat about issues relating to the Internet in Australia. - Privacy - IPv6 - Security (Hacking, Law, Identity Theft) - Access (Disability) - Internet Governance - Human Rights (for Internet Users) - Social Media - Domain Names We are planning bi-monthly meet …

Melbourne Raspberry Jam (hashtag #raspberryJam) is an Australian user group that meets to support hobbyists, developers, teachers, students and families - in fact anybody that would like to put their Raspberry Pi to use. Raspberry Jam is not endorsed, sponsored or formally associated with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, but we do share their goals. We are very grateful to the organisations that do support us: Element14; Connected Community Hackerspace; and RMIT Please note that Melbourne Raspberry …

HTTP 302:  http://groups.google.com/group/nodejsau . Join the Google Group. All discussions and event notices occur here. For Melbourne Noders wanting to chat about Node libraries or hack with others (on their stuff, on other's, on everyone's). Beginners and experts welcome alike.

Startups are rapidly becoming a boom industry in Australia, but unless you're lucky enough to get into one of the few incubators in Australia (like Startmate, Pushstart or Angelcube) it can be an real challenge even knowing where to start. HeadStart is a monthly meetup designed to give budding entrepreneurs the right information they need to get their business started. With guest speakers every month and access to a growing mentor network, HeadStart is like a hackathon for starting a business. S …