I would like to announce the arrival of a new Australian Pool.

ozco.in has been hashing for 72 hours and  things are running smooth
The website is still under development and changes will take place, we have our stats page up and running.

ozco.in is hosted in Australia and will offer lower latency to Australian, New Zealand and South East Asian miners.
#ozcoin on irc.freenode.net

Our vision is to encourage BTC use in Australia by supporting miners and other BTC enterprises in Australia.
We feel that a strong growing community will help us overcome any obstacles for BTC in Australia and we are here for the long run toward real world use of BTC - not for a quick buck.To this end we feel that transparency is vital in our project and will endeavour to provide as much information as required for this to become possible.
I would like to have offered a 0fee pool but to do this I would have to host overseas thus losing one of the prime reasons for this site - lower latency and less "Problems communicting with Bitcoin Rpc" that many "downunder" users suffer from.

Current features
The pools fees are set at 1%
Manual payout is available at a fee of 2%
Payout will occur 120 confirmations after block is paid to pool (we will reduce this to 100 asap)
Offering proportional payment.  (proportional payout) = (user shares) (total shares) * (50BTC - 0.5BTC fee)
Long polling enabled to reduce stale shares

Upcoming Features
Web based irc client for instant support
Forums
More info on stats page

Please note a valid email adress is required for registration.

Currently running around 4.5 5Ghash/s

As an incentive to miners we are offering a reward on a sliding scale of 5BTC to the first miner to discover a block on our pool, 4BTC for the2nd block, 3BTC for the 3rd, 2BTC for the 4th, and 1BTC for the 5th, this will be a separate manual payment. Winners announced onsite and emailed

Getting started
1. Register an account with ozco.in  (the pin number is an extra layer of security for you once logged in)
2. Automatic email activation sent (working on the email. Click link copy/paste activation code)
3.Once activated login and go to "account details" section. Setup your workers, you will need the pin you set earlier.( please 1 worker per gpu for now)
4. Enter the address of the wallet you would like your payments made to and your amount for automatic payout (setting this to 1 would be appreciated initially - but your choice), you will need the pin again.
4. Join your miner to the pool:
hostname: http://ozco.in  port :8332
Username: <yourname>.<workername>  Password:<workerpassword>
5. Start your worker. On first connection it can take your client a few minutes to "connect" and download the work units.
5. You're done! Check out the pool Statistics to see how the pool is doing .

Questions, (positive) criticism/suggestions welcome  
its got way past late. i will add some links to miners and guides in the morning,
Best
Graet

hosted in perth,
i'll get back to you soon on the returns to members from our first block.
see how it compares

Cool, I was gunna start one but I figured out it would cost too much to startup with my current setup.

Which is exactly why I didn't think it was profitable

what browser do you use?
we thought it more important to get the backend setup and running correctly so we did that first.
as i said in original post "website still under development" - please be patient.

thanks for the feedback

you've got a Tasmanian on board now as well