In the weeks leading up to the day of the first MapServer/OSGIS Users Group meeting, Melbourne was blessed with constant sunshine. The the day finally arrived and it started raining… typical of Melbourne. Gus MacAuly and I wearly made our way to Melb Uni’s computer science department expecting the worst — a no show. Upon arrival I waited at the door of the building for any unsuspecting by-passers while Gus tried to locate an empty room we could use since the room orignally booked was locked! (Must remember to make sure we get the key next time). At precisly 6.35PM Simon McBride (Spatial Vision) & Mark (from Geomatics Technology — sorry Mark forgot your last name) walk in. As I am chating with them a call from Dr Matt Duckham (Dept of Geomatics, Uni of Melb) — my phone discussion with Matt went on for a bit but the end result was he also decides to come down for the meeting.
Finally we started the presentation on my 12″ Laptop screen — the room had no projector. Experiances with Geoserver, Mapserver, PostGIS and Mapbuilder were all discussed, so were issues pertaining to the changing business of GIS as the open source technology adopts OGC standards faster than commercial software compaines.

So a relative success I would say — 5 of us at the 1st meeting who knows next meeting we might have to book the Melbourne world trade center :)

Oh and we also decided to move the meeting to Wednesday since most ppl are trying to get out of the CDB on Fridays…