Day One - Sept 25
For another year the web industry from across Australia came together at the Sydney Convention Centre for Web Directions South 2008. Expectations where high could John and Maxine pull together another outstanding conference in the epic Web Directions series.
After a successful AWIA Port80 on the evening before where Clever Starfish, radharc, Free Wireless Australia, and Saasu sponsored drinks, It was in a bleary eye state that we descended upon the Sydney Convention Centre. This year I had a mind to attend topics that I didn’t know about, and stretch myself.
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will know that it is now conference season here in Australia. Over the next two weeks or so you are going to be getting nothing but posts on conference related activities. Sorry if this isn’t not what you were expecting.
Presently I’m in the belly of a 737-700 just crossing the eastern side of the Great Australian Bight on my way to Sydney for Oz-IA 2008 and Web Directions South 2008. This year there is yet again another special event, besides the traditional Port80 meetup on the eve before Web Directions South (proper). Yes its WebJam time again, that crazy time when 18 or so web peeps take to the stage and delivery what can only be described as a roller coaster of information in 3 minutes or less.
And the race in on, with Web Directions South 2008 a major Australian web event for 2008 looming ever closer on 23-26 September 2008. Web Directions is not like any run of the mill luke warm web conference. For me it’s like the meeting of the tribes.
You get Information Architects, Usability Consultants, Front End Developers, Project Managers and Back End Developers all in the same place, at the same time, talking the same issues, shoulder to shoulder, noobs next to seasoned professionals, it’s like a great big melting pot of ideas. Okay I’m a little bias, having been to WDS 2006, WDS 2007, and WDUX08.
