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June Meeting (Melbourne)

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Date: Thursday 29 June, 2006

Podcast

Presentation Mind Control
Paul Fenwick
29-June-2006 WSG Melbourne meeting
Duration: 22:34 - File size: 4.99 MB
Paul Fenwick from Perl Training Australia gives some humorous as well as useful and practical dirty tricks that you can play on an audience, in order to convince them that you are a good presenter.

Event Details

Paul Fenwick from Perl Training Australia has been delivering training courses and presentations in his unique, humorous style for years. Tonight he'll share some of the secrets to public speaking with WSG attendees.

Andrew Arch is a world-renowned expert in accessible web design. Through the W3C, Andrew works with colleagues around the world in promoting web accessibility and is an active member of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative's Education & Outreach Working Group.

Meeting Time?

6:30pm - 7:00pm - Food, drinks and networking
7:00pm - 7:45pm - Paul Fenwick on Presentation Mind Control
7:45pm - 8:30pm - Andrew Arch on building accessible web sites

Where Do We Meet?

Meetings are now held at the Victorian government's excellent Centre for Innovation & Technology Commercialisation.

Centre for Innovation & Technology Commercialisation
Level 1, 257 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

View a map to the venue.

Cost?

There is no cost to attend. No, really! Food and beverages are kindly being made available thanks to SitePoint. SitePoint is a Melbourne-based company who, when not handing out free pizza, publish articles and books on best practice web development, with a focus on web standards. Their discussion forums are also home to the web's most active web development community, so I encourage you to check them out at www.sitepoint.com if you haven't already.

Other Important Stuff

Please ensure you arrive well before the presentation begins. The door will be locked to the public by 7pm so it is important you arrive on time. Besides, how could you pass up free pizza?

For catering purposes, please register for this event via the Melbourne WSG online calendar. Click on the event and select the "Register for this event" link, where you will be asked to enter your name and an email address.

If you experience difficulties with this process, you can also RSVP by sending an email to melbourne AT webstandardsgroup DOT org. Your RSVP is appreciated, especially for popular presenters as room space may be limited.

By the way you can also subscribe (iCal | RSS) to the Melbourne WSG calendar which is updated as events are confirmed.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone interested in best practice web design or development is welcome to attend. The meetings are very informal and we always allow time for open discussion.

One of our strong points is that the group has a broad range of skills and interests within the web development area (Flash, PHP, Ruby, DOM Scripting, CSS, XML, usability, accessibility etc). This means that discussions are always lively. All of us are interested in web standards!