Having a leading edge talk on microformats is a bit of a treat for those of us not in a technology hub. So on Thursday when John Allsopp presented his lightning (is 30 minutes lightning?) overview of microformats there were a bunch of people who were eager to get the dirt on the topic. I gotta say that John is a battery pack of energy and it really made the talk very enjoyable and I reckon a heap of people learnt a lot and really started to 'get' what uF are about.
What I really liked about the event is that there were people from all over the IT discipline tree - graphic designers, VB programmer, managers (ewwww), .NET experts, Java lackies and the (now) obligitory Ruby junkies. After the talk the room was buzzing with ideas and conversation. It was a real rarity and a treat to have an event like this in Melbourne (well, outside the Valley really) and I wanted to publicly thank John, Maxine and the WebDirections conference for putting it on. It was fantastic to have people from SitePoint, The Lonely Planet and Sensis all there too and if Melbourne is representative of other non tech-hub cities then microformats are looking good for an even wider adoption. Did anyone else on the mailing list see the talk? I'd love to know how many of you are here :) -- picking the lint off your life _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
