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Code for Sydney - Monthly Hack Day
Fri, Feb 20, 11:15 PMThe Great Outdoors! We hope you have enjoyed getting out in the warm weather. For this month's hack theme we are going to explore getting outside and tools you would have found useful this Summer. Whether this is a tool to help plan your holiday or outdoor activity, warn you about nearby traffic jams or bush fires, or even a tool to remind you to go out and touch grass once in a while, now is the time to think up a few ideas! We will have a planning session to talk through these ideas and see what people want to work on for the hacking portion of the MeetUp. If you want to start early please do! We would love to see your project working, and if you would like to give a brief talk about how it works, even better. If you need help getting something working or taking it to the next level we will definitely have people willing to help you out. Even if you have a project unrelated to this theme, we would still love to hear about it. We can either talk about it at the next session or build a future session around it. We would also love your input on themes for the rest of the year. The broader the better as this will give the widest room to ideate over. Code for Sydney is now running meetups every month. Code for Sydney is a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Sydney-area developers, designers, and activists with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of technology. During our monthly hack day, we'll learn about civic challenges, brainstorm ideas about solutions, and sit down to code together. Together, we can make an impact on civic challenges and build a better city. Networking with fellow software engineers, designers and student/s welcome! If anyone would like to present a quick talk or propose a project idea, do talk to us! Also please do join the discussion on Discord https://discord.gg/wPmp25Xnm5

🌿 Free End-of-Summer BBQ Picnic at Centennial Park 🌿
Sun, Mar 1, 1:00 AM### **Free End-of-Summer BBQ Picnic at Centennial Park** I’m collaborating with Sydney Meetup and Sydney Social Circle to host a relaxed, end-of-summer BBQ picnic for an easy way to be around new people and enjoy a Saturday outdoors. This is a low-pressure, come-as-you-are gathering. You’re very welcome to come on your own, bring a friend, stay briefly, or hang around, whatever suits you. **📍 Where: Centennial Park, BBQ units near the Model Yacht Pond** **🕛 When: Saturday\, March 1st \| 12:00–5:00pm** **📍 Map coordinates: 33°53'52.5"S 151°14'27.7"E** **What to expect:** * **🌭 Free sausages provided by the organisers** * **🥂 Bring your own drinks** * **🌞 A relaxed outdoor setting** * **🥏 Feel free to bring a frisbee, yoga mat, board game, picnic rug or just yourself** * **💬 A mix of people from different social groups, with conversations unfolding naturally** **Register Here: [https://form.jotform.com/260390815857061](https://form.jotform.com/260390815857061)** There’s no agenda and no expectations, just a simple opportunity to enjoy good weather, casual conversation, and connection at your own pace. Food is free, with an optional donation box and QR code available if you’d like to contribute. I’ll be there and you’re very welcome to come say hello.

Code for Sydney - Monthly Hack Day
Fri, Mar 13, 11:15 PMCode for Sydney is now running meetups every month. Code for Sydney is a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Sydney-area developers, designers, and activists with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of technology. During our monthly hack day, we'll learn about civic challenges, brainstorm ideas about solutions, and sit down to code together. Together, we can make an impact on civic challenges and build a better city. Networking with fellow software engineers, designers and student/s welcome! If anyone would like to present a quick talk or propose a project idea, do talk to us! Also please do join the discussion on Discord https://discord.gg/wPmp25Xnm5

🌸Women's Day Special Sip and Paint with a Bay View✨ 🎨
Sat, Mar 7, 11:00 PM🌸 **Women’s Day Special – Sip & Paint with a Bay View** A special Sip & Paint **hosted in our private terrace overlooking Mosman Bay**. An intimate, relaxed and carefully curated experience to paint, connect and unwind together — not in a studio, but in a real home setting with stunning view! **Limited availability — events often sell out quickly.** To secure your spot, please **confirm your attendance on Meetup** and **purchase your ticket** here: 🎟️https://events.humanitix.com/sip-and-paint-bay-view-mosman ✨ **What to expect** • **Private terrace with Mosman Bay views** • Arrival from **10:00 am** with **coffee, tea, wine or whatever you feel like drinking** • Time to relax, chat and meet new people • Sip & Paint session: • Follow step-by-step guidance to create the artwork of the day • Or paint freely, at your own pace • **Homemade food** shared during the experience • Friendly, informal and judgement-free atmosphere No painting experience needed. 🕘 **Agenda** • **10:00 am** – Arrival & welcome drinks • **10:30 am** – Painting session begins • Paint, sip, chat and relax together • **12:00 pm** \- The event wraps up\, but feel free to stay longer and enjoy some extra time together (Approx. **2–2.5 hours**) 🎨 **What to bring** Nothing. All painting materials (oil paints, canvas, brushes, aprons and everything you need to paint), food and drink are included. 👨👩👧👦 **Who can join** Everyone is welcome — friends, couples, solo guests, **families and kids**. This is not a women event only, it's open for everyone! 📍 **Location** Private home in Mosman with bay views. Exact address shared **after ticket purchase**.

Public speaking and communication every 1st, 3rd and 5th Thursday of the month
Wed, Feb 18, 8:00 PMAre you afraid of public speaking? 🗣️ Do you want to be a better communicator? Or maybe you just want to be confident enough to deliver the toast at your friend's wedding. 🤵👰 You have been delaying this for years and it's never too late to start. We are part of a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. At each meeting, you will get the opportunity to develop your speaking, communication & leadership skills. You are welcome to attend the first few meetings as a visitor to ensure the club is a good fit for you. Meetings have an agenda that has been published on our interactive website and members are encouraged to nominate themselves for meeting roles in advance. Undertaking roles is part of developing leadership skills 🥇. You will find that our meetings are friendly and fun, welcoming and warm, nurturing and encouraging attendees to achieve their goals. Laughter is guaranteed; you will be amazed that learning can be so much fun! 😃 Join us as a guest every 1st, 3rd and 5th Thursday of the month at 7:00 am at the new St Leonards Library in Mall 88. For more information you can send us a message, email us at vpm-5810@toastmastersclubs.org or simply visit our website https://5810.toastmastersclubs.org/ Public speaking is a skill, not a talent, you can do this 💪

Human hearted community of practice (COP)
Sun, Mar 8, 12:00 AM**Event summary:** The monthly human hearted community of practice (COP) is both a support group, and a mutual encouragement group, for people who want to explore living a more human hearted life. The COP is part of Human Hearted Sydney's goal of building community. Please feel free to join us for a session if you're interested. **Who is the COP for ?** The COP is for people who dislike the alienation and emptiness of our modern finance driven society, and are looking for a new form of community - one based on the reality of our human social capacities such as sympathy and friendship, rather than based on returning to religion and other traditional practices. If you would like to be part of building a supportive community for living out socially positive values in today’s world we encourage you to come along and check it out. **Some background: The meaning problem modern society faces -** The development of modern society has seen the destruction of earlier systems of meaning, like religion and tradition. They have not been replaced by a new set of ethics or community, but by market values and hyper individualism. This has created a world of material wealth in which far too many people feel insecure, alone, and unlikely to succeed. We now live in an atomised society in which each person suffers alone and there is no form of community, or meaning other than material wealth, to sustain them. This has led to substantial increases in loneliness and mental health issues like anxiety in modern society. Now there is even a category called ‘[deaths of despair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_of_despair#:~:text=The%20three%20disease%20types%20are,%2C%20West%20Virginia%2C%20and%20Delaware.)’ that refers to people whose reliance on drugs, alcohol etc. to numb their isolation from society leads to their early death. **More background: The solution we will look at -** The obvious solution to the collapse of values in modern society is to build alternative forms of community. Many groups try to achieve this by calling for a return to religious values, or building new religions. As humanists we do not turn to religion but the best of the human potential to provide a foundation for community groups. [Human heartedness](https://web.archive.org/web/20240109160949/https://areomagazine.com/2022/05/05/a-human-hearted-modernity/) is an approach to life which sees humans as inherently social beings. It is backed both by many famous thinkers of the past, and by the findings of recent neuroscience and evolutionary studies which show the path to human happiness and fulfillment is more dependent on building good relationships and positive social connection than on competition and being purely ‘rational’. So one part of the solution to the existential emptiness of modernity is for people to build small communities; groups of like minded people who want to live in a more human hearted way, and support each other to live better in the face of modernity’s onslaught. There are other parts of the solution of course. However in relation to this event our focus is on setting up a COP to support each other to practice living in a more human hearted way, and to provide communal support generally in today’s disenchanted world. **Basic structure of this meeting:** The meeting will be facilitated by a member of the Sydney humanist community and will involve a brief talk explaining human heartedness and the problems of modernity. Then we will proceed to conduct our regular COP meeting. The meeting will finish with a Q/A and discussion period, followed by a lunch and more informal discussion. **Donations:** While this event is free, we would be grateful if you chose to make a [donation](https://www.humanistsaustralia.org/donate) to sustain Humanists Australia which would help it to continue delivering events that serve the community in Sydney. **Please note Date Time and Venue:** In March 2026 the meeting will be held on the second Sunday of the month (March 8th) at 11:00AM. The venue is level one of Darling Square Library. The room we'll be in is called Idea Space 2 **Directions:** The venue is a ten minute walk from both Town Hall and Central station. The Darling Square Library is part of a hive-shaped building called The Exchange. The Idea Spaces are on level one of The Darling Square Library which is accessible via elevators facing towards Darling Square and stairs which are on the other side of the building. Please ask the library staff if you need assistance finding where we are in the library.
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