Thanks much to Nick Jones at the University of Auckland, who posted to the "possible trips" page in this Wiki. Nick's post is the anchor for scheduling this trip. I'll be down in February, after everyone has returned from holidays. Exact dates will be set in the next few days; however expect it will be a two-week block of time. If you want us to visit your user group, school, company, or whatever, please edit this page. Be certain to include contact info, and also email evangelists at amazon dot com in order to make certain we confirm. -

18 Feb (Monday) Christchurch

• 9:30am - noon: General seminar at University of Canterbury
• 1pm - 2:30pm: Technical seminar at University of Canterbury
• 3pm - 4pm: Private discussion
• Evening - Canterbury Linux Users Group - http://clug.org.nz

19 Feb (Tuesday) Wellington

• Morning travel from Christchurch
• 10:00am - noon Private discussion
• Lunch / early pm - KAREN - Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network
• 2:30 - 3:30pm NZTE
• 3:30 - 5:00pm Business Strategy discussion
• 6:30pm at Creative HQ, Level 4, 25a Marion street, Wellington. Collection of opensource/technical groups meet together. All welcome. Rumours of Beer and Pizza. For info/directions contact Brenda: brenda@catalyst.net.nz +64-2102514733 (Not language specific)

20 Feb (Wednesday) Hamilton

• Morning travel
• 10.30-13.00 - Private meeting
• 13.00-15.00 Visit Enlighten Design http://www.enlighten.co.nz
• 16.00 - WaikatoLink Limited
• 19.30 - Waikato Linux Users Group - http://wlug.org.nz/ Building MS4, room G.02 on the Waikato University campus. See map at http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map/?MS4
• 22.00 - Drive to Auckland

21 Feb (Thursday) Auckland

• 8am - 10am CSI Cafe meeting with ICT Industry group at Hyatt Regency hosted by the Centre for Software Innovation
• 10:30am - 11:30 Business Session
• 12:00noon - 2pm Private meeting
• 2pm - 4pm Discussion with CSI Academy and Computer Science students - www.cs.auckland.ac.nz
• 18.00 - Meetup hosted by the Java community; however not language specific, with other groups attending--including .NET developers. See http://java.meetup.com/162/calendar/7173415/ for details, meeting in room WS114 at AUT, 24 St Paul Street, Auckland

22 Feb (Friday) Auckland

• 10am - 1.30pmDiscussion and Lunch with Auckland IT Services directorate and staff
  
• 2pm - 4pm Discussion with NZ BeSTGRID eResearch community. Participation via Access Grid available. http://www.bestgrid.org

25 Feb (Monday) Melbourne, Australia

• 08.00 - 10.00 Private Breakfast Meeting with Observant (Jim Alateras) @ Brunswick St Fitzroy (map)
• 11.00 - 12.00Seminar at Deakin University, Melbourne (Burwood Campus, room lb2.101) www.deakin.edu.au/buslaw/infosys
• 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch at Deakin University
• 14.30 - 16.00 Eclipse Group - 180 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
• 18.00 - Meeting with various people from Melbourne commercial software development companies and community (Andrew Stuart andrew.stuart@flatraterecruitment.com.au) (Not language specific)

26 Feb (Tuesday) Melbourne, VIC

• 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Seminar at Monash University e-Research Centre, Melbourne (Clayton Campus) www.monash.edu.au/eresearch (Confirmed)
• 12.30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch at Monash University host by MeRC(Confirmed)
• 2.00 pm - 3:00 pm Discussion with members of e-Research / ITS, Monash (Confirmed)

• 3.00pm - 4.00pm Discussiosn with 3d3.com (Tentative)
• 6:00 pm -- Victoria .NET Users Group, http://www.victoriadotnet.com.au/

27 Feb (Wednesday) Sydney, NSW

• 10:20 am - Arrive from Melbourne
• 12:00 pm -2:00 pm - Private meeting in Pyrmont
• 3:00 pm -4:30 pm - Private meeting in Bondi Junction
• 5:45 pm - 9:00 pm Sydney .NET User Group http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/netug/ (combined with Sydney Business & Technology User Group http://www.sbtug.com) at Microsoft, 1 Epping Road in North Ryde

28 Feb (Thursday) Sydney, NSW

• 8:30-10:00 - Sydney OpenCoffee Meetup - http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1136/
  
• 11.00-14.00 Private meeting in Mt Kuring-Gai
• 18.00 -- Sydney Deep .NET User Group www.sdnug.org at AMP Capital Investors, 50 Bridge St, Sydney

29 Feb (Friday)

• Depart for Seattle at noon