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July Meetup for the Sydney Nature Journal Club
Sun, Jul 26, 12:30 AMCome along to our **July meetup for the Sydney Nature Journal Club**. National Tree Day is 26 July. We will explore this theme in the Botanical Gardens. This is a chance to connect, spend some time in nature and journal together. I will offer some guidance to start. After we can share journal pages and ideas. **What to bring:** Bring along sketchbooks/paper and your favourite drawing materials (pens, pencils, watercolour, acrylic, anything you have). I will have extra materials on the day if you want to explore other mediums. \*\*Where:\*\* Botanical Gardens **Cost:** Suggested donation is $10 annual fee, $5 casual fee. (This helps cover Meetup fees). DISCLAIMER. Please note that Katy as volunteer organiser of activities for Sydney Nature Journal Club is NOT responsible for the health or safety of members (or their guests) and therefore will not accept any liability for accidents or injuries or losses that may occur during Meetup events at any location. By attending a Sydney Nature Journal Club event members acknowledge that you accept ALL of the above. I look forward to seeing you there.

Sydney OpenSearch User Group Meetup #1
Wed, Jul 29, 7:00 AMWelcome to the very first Sydney OpenSearch User Group meetup! We're kicking off the Sydney chapter with talks, networking, pizza, and a quiz with swag to give away. Whether you're deep into OpenSearch or just curious, come along and meet the community. Agenda and talk summaries below. **Agenda** Wednesday\, 29 July 2026 \| 5:00 PM \- 7:00 PM 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM: Arrivals, Networking, Pizza & Drinks 5:30 PM - 5:35 PM: Welcome & Housekeeping 5:35 PM - 6:00 PM: Talk 1 - Urmila Iyer, AWS 6:00 PM - 6:20 PM: Talk 2 - Mehri Sandoghchian, Atlassian 6:20 PM - 6:40 PM: Talk 3 - Ryan Eves, Atlassian 6:40 PM - 6:50 PM: Tech Quiz - put your brain to the test to win swag 6:50 PM - 7:00 PM: Wrap-up & Networking **Talk 1: Observability with OpenSearch** **Speaker:** Urmila Iyer, OpenSearch Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Observability is more critical than ever as systems grow more distributed and complex. Urmila opens with a quick look at where the observability space is heading and why it matters, then digs into a hybrid approach with OpenSearch: OpenSearch for traces and logs, Prometheus for metrics, Data Prepper for ingestion, and OpenSearch Dashboards bringing it all together into a single pane of glass. **Talk 2: Autoscaling OpenSearch on Kubernetes** **Speaker:** Mehri Sandoghchian, Senior Software Engineer, Atlassian Learn how Atlassian right-sizes hundreds of OpenSearch clusters at scale - a reactive layer in the Kubernetes operator for fast, low-risk changes, paired with a Recommendation Engine for capacity planning. **Talk 3: Architecting Blue/Green Deployments for OpenSearch on Kubernetes** **Speaker:** Ryan Eves, Senior Software Engineer, Atlassian Learn about the Opensearch cluster update process, and how Atlassian designed its own blue/green deployment process to safely and reliably apply updates with no downtime.

National Tree Day
Sat, Jul 25, 10:50 PMHuman Hearted Sydney is committed to contributing to our community. We are planning to participate in National Tree Day for 2026 by joining Strathfield Council’s National Tree Day event at Hudson Park Strathfield where we'll help plant some native seedlings. More information and registration details at https://events.humanitix.com/strathfield-council-national-tree-day-2026 We warmly welcome others to participate by volunteering with us. If you’d like to join us please register through the registration page at the url above. Please note there are several sessions on the day, and we are registering for the 9.00am session. Once you've registered please RSVP for this meetup and then post a comment here that you have registered. Then we’ll know who is coming and how many people to look out for. We don't have a precise location other than Hudson park, which has a golf range. We'll provide more info when we have it. We also don't know how many places are left for this event so register soon if you can. We hope to see you there.

Sydney Singles Relational Lab — Facilitated Connection Experience
Tue, Jul 28, 9:00 AM# Tired of dating apps culture and surface-level? This is different. And people often leave surprised by how quickly strangers can feel human, warm, honest, and real again. Free to RSVP, 👉 $59 to confirm your spot [https://consciousconnectionsclub.com/stayconnected](https://consciousconnectionsclub.com/join) Relational Labs is a guided connection experience for singles who want more honest, playful, emotionally intelligent interaction — without performance, pressure, or endless small talk. This is not speed dating. Not networking. Not “pitch yourself to strangers.” It’s a facilitated relational container rooted in psychology, emotional intelligence, attachment work, social dynamics, nervous system awareness, and real-world human connection — made practical enough that you can actually live it instead of reading another 50 books about it. ## What happens • A 2-hour guided online relational experience • Real-time connection exercises designed to create authentic interaction • A format that adapts in real time to whoever is present • Optional participant-led in-person continuation afterward • WhatsApp connection thread after the session ## This may be for you if: • You’re tired of shallow or repetitive social spaces • You want deeper connection without forced intimacy • You enjoy personal growth, psychology, communication, or relational work • You’re open to meeting people in a more intentional way ## Important This experience runs with whoever is present and takes its own shape each time. Sometimes expansive. Sometimes intimate. Both are the real thing.

Earth's Greatest Enemy
Wed, Jul 29, 8:30 AM**Movie Screening followed by a Panel Discussion with Journalist and Film Director Abby Martin- Dendy Cinema, Newtown** Tickets are $20 via Humanitix [Tickets- Dendy Cinema July 29th](https://events.humanitix.com/earth-s-greatest-enemy-sydney-film-and-panel-discussion-with-abby-martin-film-maker) This is the second feature film project by Abby Martin, a groundbreaking anti-imperialist environmental documentary. Exempt from international climate agreements and rarely scrutinized in mainstream reporting, the Pentagon is the world’s single largest institutional polluter—spewing carbon, contaminating water, and scarring landscapes across the globe. Combining investigative journalism, striking visuals, and stories from impacted communities, this film challenges audiences to rethink the hidden costs of a global military empire and its planetary consequences. Provocative, urgent, and eye-opening, this is a documentary that will change how you see both the military and environmentalism. **Join the discussion on our community** Discord [https://discord.gg/QSwa3PMzHy](https://discord.gg/QSwa3PMzHy)

Unhurried Conversations - Sunday
Sun, Jul 26, 12:15 AMBring yourself, we will go over how Unhurried Conversations works.
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