August 28th, 2007 — community, events, port80, wd07, web directions
The programme for Web Directions 2007 has been released, and there’s certainly going to be some hard decisions on what to go see. With three streams this year, there’s even more that I will sadly have to miss, seeing as I haven’t yet mastered being in two places at once, let alone three.
It’s also worth noting that if you haven’t registered yet but are thinking of going, you definitely want to do so before August 31 - that’s when the current “discount” pricing ends and the “standard” pricing kicks in.
The Perth crowd are mobilising to make our yearly pilgrimage to Sydney for Web Directions. This year will be even bigger and better than previous years, we are sure, and we’re planning to hold a Port80 social event in Sydney, in hopes of encouraging a regular event - more details to follow.
In recognition of the Awesomeness of Web Directions South, Miles has challenged previous attendees to find and and link to evidence of ourselves enjoying previous years. I challenge Rosemary, Gary and John.
August 20th, 2007 — events, perth events
So, after lots of bitching, speculation, and god knows what else, the podcamp Australia people have announced that the first event will be held in Perth, in October 2007. Apparently, Perth got more votes than the rest of Australia combined.
Go Perth! Our local web industry has been going a bit nuts lately.
Seems we’re standing up and refusing to play second fiddle to the East coast. We’ve had BarCamp Perth, and a WebJam, and then the third WA Web Awards, and now Podcamp.
Should be great, see you there!
July 30th, 2007 — community, events, perth events
It was shortly after the hugely successful Perth BarCamp that someone noticed podcamp.info. This appeared to be an attempt to start a similar style of unconference event in Australia.
Being the happy and enthusiastic crowd we are here in Perth - and still hyped up from recent BarCamp - Perth peeps got behind the vote to send BarCamp to Perth, sending our fair city rocketing into the lead.
There are some things about the site that are a bit odd, however - information on the people behind the event is a bit hard to find. Gary Barber did some research and has some suspicions as to whether the location poll was genuine or just a publicity stunt because it was assumed that Sydney would win.
I’m open-minded, and probably optimistic to a fault, so I’m waiting to hear something from the organisers. The home page lists “Other Upcoming Newmedia Events” and of the five that are currently listed, four are based in Perth!
What do you guys think? Is Podcamp Australia for real?
July 23rd, 2007 — community, events, perth events, port80, wa web awards
AWIA are excited to announce: WebJam Perth!
When: Wednesday August 15, 2007 from 6pm
Where: The Velvet Lounge, Mt Lawley
Cost: nothing, nada, zip
So what is a WebJam? It’s your chance to get up and show what you’ve been working on. You get 3 minutes and at the end of the night, the presentation that is voted as the coolest wins some prizes.
Video from previous WebJams is up on Viddler and it looks like a barrel of laughs. More information is coming soon so check out the AWIA web site.
Coincidentally, WebJam Perth will be held in the same week as the WA Web Awards. We’re calling it WA Web Week!
April 25th, 2007 — general
“People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession.”
A List Apart are running a “web peeps” survey, to try and find out some demographic information about our fledgling industry. Who are we? What do we do and where do we come from and where are we going? And most importantly, what are we earning along the way?
Although it’s targeted more towards employees than sole traders or small business owners, I think that it could yield some interesting results - so pop on over and your critical data.
