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August Sydney WSG meeting 2009

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Date: Wednesday 19 August, 2009

Event Details

When:: Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Time:: 6:30pm for 7pm start
Where:: Australian Museum, 6 College Street Sydney - Ground floor theatre
Cost:: Free (thanks to Atlassian)

The Open Web

Presenter: Lachlan Hardy

You know HTML, CSS, and JS. You even know WCAG 1 *and* 2. But how much do you know about the other open standards and specifications that are increasing used as building blocks for the Open Web?

The Open Web is an important philosophy and Lachlan Hardy will discuss the key tenets and components that make it what you need to be building towards in your own work.

Bio

Lachlan Hardy dramatically lit in profile Lachlan currently works as a Design Engineer at Atlassian where he builds functional designs into all their products.

He is a web standards expert who has worked on numerous high-profile sites for News Digital Media, Queensland Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries, several Victorian government projects and the ticketing system for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games.

He leads the team behind the highly successful Webjam events promoting web innovation in Australia and has written for ReadWriteWeb. He's an advocate of open web technologies and currently very interested in networking the facets of our online identities.

His site is Lachstock.

CSS: Configuring Simple Solutions

Presenter: Craig Sharkie

Browsers are changing the amount of CSS that they adopt with each new version, but the fundamental strengths of the language remain.

So while the Web's design language evolves, how do we incorporate the new, without a good grasp of the old?

As new CSS introduces simple ways to look at old problems, we'll take a new look at old ways to simplify problems.

Bio

Craig Sharky on stage in full swing From Atlassian to Ziff Davis, Craig has worked with some of the biggest names in the Australian Web scene and has picked up some useful tips along the way.

He uses his background in fine art to look just a little differently at the problems client side developers face daily, and adds that new perspective to his passion for Web Standards and semantics.

Sponsor

The August Sydney web Standards Group meeting is proudly sponsored by Atlassian.

Atlassian develops affordable, lightweight software that helps enterprises collaborate better. Its products include Confluence, recognized as the most widely-used enterprise wiki, and JIRA, one of the world's most popular issue trackers for IT project management. The company has more than 15,000 customers worldwide, with over half of the world's top 100 corporations. For more information, visit: http://www.atlassian.com