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Notice of Annual General Meeting 2025

Hello everyone,

In line with the rules of the Melbourne AWS User Group Inc (the incorporated association that manages the day to day operations of the user group), we’d like to give notice of our intention to hold our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday the 23rd of April 2025 at 12:30am over Zoom.

Notice of Annual General Meeting 2024

Hello everyone,

In line with the rules of the Melbourne AWS User Group Inc (the incorporated association that manages the day to day operations of the user group), we’d like to give notice of our intention to hold our Annual General Meeting on Thursday the 4th of April 2024 at 10:30am over Zoom.

Notice of Annual General Meeting 2023

Hello everyone,

In line with the rules of the Melbourne AWS User Group Inc (the incorporated association that manages the day to day operations of the user group), we’d like to give notice of our intention to hold our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday the 26th of April 2023 in person following the meetup on that day.

Notice of Annual General Meeting 2022

Hi everyone.

In line with the rules of the Melbourne AWS User Group Inc (the incorporated association that manages the day to day operations of the user group), we’d like to give notice of our intention to hold our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday the 27th of April 2022 in person following the meetup on that day.

Notice of Annual General Meeting

Hi everyone.

In line with the rules of the Melbourne AWS User Group Inc (the incorporated association that manages the day to day operations of the user group), we’d like to give notice of our intention to hold our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday the 11th of May 2021 via Zoom.

We Have A Podcast!

This time where we have to keep our distance is not easy for anyone. One of the impacts it has for our community is that we can’t see each other at our monthly meetups. While from this month forward we aim to hold our events online, we also felt that alone might not be enough to keep the community engaged.

Notice of Special General Meeting

Hi everyone.

We, that is the current organisers committee, have been talking for a while now about registering as an Incorporated Association with Consumer Affairs Victoria. This puts some additional overhead on us around record keeping and meeting minutes, but it also gives us a lot of advantages around legal liability and financial control (we’d be a registered not-for-profit organisation). You can read more on the advantages here.

March Meetup Cancelled

The Melbourne AWS User Group has decided to cancel March’s event.

Like everyone, we have watched the situation rapidly worsen in Victoria in the past 3 days and in conjunction with our venue, sponsors and speakers we’ve come to the decision that it would be irresponsible to proceed with March’s planned meetup. Even though there has been no official directive from Victoria’s Chief Medical Officer there has been no indication that the worst is behind us and we feel it is in the best interest of the community to place the health and safety of everyone involved first and be as cautious as possible.

June 2019 meetup

It was our very first DeepRacer themed meetup! As announced, we changed the schedule to allow for the use of our new DeepRacer track before the talks. The suspense of the race was there. Roaring engines, riveted crowds, and a car… that couldn’t quite follow the track for more than 10 seconds at a time. Unfortunately for this first time we were limited to models provided by us, and they weren’t very good. Hopefully at our July meetup we’ll have more models from our members.

May 2019 Meetup

Our May meetup was filled up because once again we had a pair of fantastic speakers. Unfortunately our video game wasn’t as on point as usual since our usual camera guru (Rob) was on a well-deserved holiday. While we did our best, there were a couple issues with the stream and Rob is still trying to rescue the recordings into something usable. Which is why we’re a bit later with this writeup. If Rob manages to rescue the videos they get added here, otherwise you have my sincere apologies.

April 2019 Meetup

When you sandwich a meetup between two different public holidays, would you expect a lot of people to show up? If you have as great a community as we do and a couple of awesome speakers, the answer to that is a resounding yes! Thank you for everyone who came along and made the evening a success. And if you couldn’t make it because you were off on a holiday somewhere just keep on reading and watch the videos.

March 2019 Meetup

While we had to move the meetup to a Thursday instead of our usual Wednesday, it was a great evening. Gold sponsor Innablr gave their presentation and was present in big numbers, all of them very noticeable in their good looking purple shirts. But mostly, once again so many of you turned up to hear the speakers and have discussions about anything AWS. While we always thank our sponsors it’s good to remember that without you, the community, there wouldn’t be a user group either. So thank you for showing up. Maybe AWS heard last month’s complaints about us not getting anything new in Sydney as this month we had several things. Not all of it might be of interest to you, but it’s good to see our little region here catching up with the rest of the world.

February 2019 Meetup

For our second meetup of the year, we had a full house. Considering we had a pair of excellent speakers that’s probably not a surprise, but still very good to see.

January 2019 Meetup

It was a dark and stormy night when we kicked off our first meetup of 2019. Ok, maybe not dark, but there was a lot of heavy rain, and despite that many of you braved that to join us for a great night.

YouTube Channel

If you’ve been to one of the meetups since a September you would have noticed the iPhone camera sitting on top of the speaker and the handsome gentleman with the iPad running around. We were experimenting with live streaming the events on Twitch. We’ll publish more about the live streaming setup we use, but suffice to say that experiment was a success!