Well... The cat is out of the bag now... Although we let Sydney members know about the conference at the last meeting, we have been keeping a bit quite about it till the online registration is up and running, which will be within the next few days.
We are incredibly excited about this conference as it is the first time we have had big names like Dave Shea, Doug Bowman and Joe Clark in Australia - and all at one time! How many times have you thought it would be good to hear these guys talk, and now Australian developers will be able to see them all - in person. As well as these big names, we have a range of Australian talent including: - John Allsopp (Westciv and Style Master) - Bruce Macguire (successfully sued SOCOC over inaccessibility for blind users) - David Woodbridge (a blind accessibility expert) - Robert Spriggs (a low vision accessibility expert) - Roger Hudson, a Sydney based accessibility expert (a leader in cognitive impaired users) - Ben Bishop (creator of the famous Aura templates) - Mark Stanton (a local XHTML/HTML guru and frequenter of the WSG list) - And that Russ Weakley guy who is obsessed with CSS lists :) It is going to be huge! The conference is spread over two days. The first day is about inspiring and motivating web developers, while the second day is about detailed practical information, tips and advice - focussing on CSS, accessibility and markup. The final session will be a panel where anyone can fire questions at Dave, Doug or Joe. We will also be running a series of intensive workshops before the conference which we will be letting you know about in the near future. We feel that the price will be well worth it for any developer in the region, whether they are just getting into CSS, or hardened standards warriors (with battle scars to prove it). All of our heads will be popping with CSS, markup and accessibility info before the conference is over. But wait, there's more. Did I mention a free set of steak knives? :) We'll let you know when the booking system is online. Russ > Im a Sydneysider and would love to attend but as a Freelancer the cost > VS benefit just doesnt make sense for me :-( ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
