OSGeo Oceania
The recent kickoff Maptime Auckland meetup was a success with 15 people ranging from geospatial professionals to students coming together to discuss geospatial topics and share ideas with each other over free pizza!
Geogeeks has been going strong with Hacknights and Mapping Parties every month.
The Hacknight in March 2026 was held at the usual venue, the Riff (Spacecubed) in the CBD, and well attended.
You can access the Geogeeks calendar to keep updated here: https://geogeeks.org/geogeeks.ics
The Geogeeks website is here: https://geogeeks.org
The first meeting of the Canberra Python User Group was sponsored by a microgrant from OSGeo Oceania, providing refreshments and making the event more pleasant for everyone involved. The microgrant will cover at least 2 meetings of the group.
The presenter at the first meeting of the year in February provided an overview of the annual coding challenge “Advent of Code“.
The second meeting of the year in March will be a workshop hosted by some of the annual Python conference organisers (PyCon AU) to assist attendees to turn tech talk ideas into an amazing proposals and presentations.
OSGeo Oceania renewed sponsorship of the QGIS Foundation at the “Small Member” level, an €500 annual contribution. This is the second year that OSGeo Oceania has continued this sponsorship.
The QGIS Foundation uses membership funds for:
OSGeo Oceania supported the Geospatial and Surveying Society of Tasmania (GEOSS Tasmania) Humanitarian Mapathon.
Sponsorship provided refreshments and funded prizes for attendees for things like “Highest km of roads mapped” and “Most buildings mapped”.
