This Blog series will follow my journey to became a coder in a small town called Bega. My name is Jorden Dakis, I finished school in 2013 and at that time I didn’t have a clue on what I wanted to do! So I decided to get a job and save some money and give […]
PHD Researcher, and regular visitor to the Bega Valley, Tim Mahlberg (https://au.linkedin.com/in/timmahlberg), has co-authored a compelling ‘state of the nation’ report on coworking in this country entitled ‘Coworking Spaces Australia’. The document is available to the public here (http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/coworking-spaces-australia/) The report is choc full of data-based determinations, anecdotes, insights and commentary on the diverse range […]
A nationally significant StartUp pitching event visits Bega in a fortnight’s time, on April 27th. The Regional Pitchfest (regionalpitchfest.com) team, headed by Di Sommerville will present an information evening on the programme, and, for maximum fun, oversee some practice pitches on the night. Pitches are only 1 minute long…so get practicing if you would like […]
We are delighted to host Brendan Yell (http://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanyell) representing SoftLayer (an IBM company – http://www.softlayer.com/about-softlayer). Not only is Brendan sharing his insights and experience, SoftLayer provide a range of free introductory offers for Cloud Services to budding StartUps. Listen to Brendan’s radio interview recently in the Hunter Valley – https://soundcloud.com/1233newcastle/is-there-a-silicon-valley-in-the-hunter Format as follows : 08:30 AM Breakfast and […]
This week we have been given the opportunity to conduct our work placement for I.T VET at 2pi Software. Within these days we have been able to set up a small web server running an Odroid as the master system, which had a load balancer installed, using Nginx, to evenly spread the traffic from incoming requests. […]
The centrepiece of this upcoming coding night is an exciting project…and will be delivered by Steve Ryan. Please read Steve’s description below…it’s a terrific project…. Hey all, so having met Scratch for drag and drop programming I wanted an easy way to enter longer pieces of music as Scratch blocks so I could integrate animations […]
The NSW Governor, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Ret’d), popped in to visit CoWS Near The Coast Digital Co-Working Space on Friday the 20th of Feb 2015.
In another first for the Sapphire Coast, the team behind CoWS Near The Coast are delighted to be chosen as the first site in the region to benefit from the Google Inside treatment. Thanks to Chris Sheedy from Reflexe Content for his drive and energy in pushing this forward. Check it out :-
Having fun at CoWS!!! Scratch and some Raspberry Pi hacking scheduled for tomorrow too. And CoWS also featured in an article in StartUp Smart – some insights into tech ‘in the sticks’ and the plus’s and minus’s of trying to create disruptive businesses in regional Oz. Check out the link here.
As part of the Regional Science Hub Science Week, Harry Binnendijk and Karl Auer are stepping up once again for a mega-coding triple header across 2 days. Friday 22nd from 4:30pm to 8PM…Harry will teach coding (through Clojure) And will be back on Saturday the 23rd from 1:30 PM to 5PM to do some more. And Karl […]
CoWS Near The Coast draws its life force from the region's technical, creative and entrepreneurial individuals. We talk every day on the IntoIT google group. If you are interested, please join us here.
