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November meeting (Melbourne)
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Date: Thursday 02 November, 2006
Event Details
We have a terrific Web Standards Group meeting coming up in Melbourne on Thursday November 2, 2006.
The evening is a "double header":
- Lisa Herrod from Access Testing is coming down from Sydney, and will be presenting a talk entitled Usability for the Multi-disciplinary Team
- Also, Dave Roberts and Sarah Drechsler from Museum Victoria will be giving a talk entitled The lifecycle of the Caught and Coloured web site, in which they will be talking about the site that was the winner of the recent McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian Web Design.
It's going to be a big night, and as always there will be door prizes from SitePoint and O'Reilly, so remember to bring a business card along to go in the draw!
Lisa Herrod
Access Testing
Lisa Herrod is a Senior Usability Consultant at Access Testing in Sydney, who has conducted hundreds of user testing sessions across a broad range of websites and industries. With a background in website design and development, Lisa has taught standards based subjects at Sydney Institute, including CSS, accessibility and usability. An ideal project for Lisa is one where she is working collaboratively with standards focused developers, to incorporate a holistic, user centred process based on best practice to achieve the best possible result.
Lisa has spoken at conferences such as Web Essentials in Sydney, and was a judge for the recent McFarlane Prize award. She is a member of the Usability Professionals Association, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia and the Australian Sign Language Interpreter Association.
She also has a dangerous interest in wine collecting, which will hopefully result in a lot of great drinking... about ten years from now.
Museum Victoria
Dave Roberts (Web Developer) & Sarah Drechsler (Web Designer)
As part of the Online Publishing team at Museum Victoria, Sarah and Dave led the design and development of the Caught and Coloured website. The site was conceived by John Kean (recipient of Museum Victoria's Science and Humanities Fellowship 2004) and was developed in collaboration with a wide array of Museum Victoria staff.
Caught and Coloured showcases the work of Frederick McCoy and his team of artists, who illustrated and described Victoria's fauna in the mid to late 19th century. The site contains over 1000 images, descriptions and stories fed from the museum's emu collection system database, and was built using XHTML/CSS, ASP.NET and SQL Server.
Meeting Time?
6:30pm - 7:00pm - Nibbles, drinks and networking
7:00pm - 7:30pm - Lisa Herrod on Usability for the Multi-disciplinary Team
7:30pm - 8:00pm - David Roberts and Sarah Drechsler on The lifecycle of the Caught and Coloured web site
8:00pm onwards - port80 drinks and socialising at Charles Dickens tavern across the road (read more at the port80 site)
Where Do We Meet?
Meetings are now held at the Victorian government's excellent Centre for Innovation & Technology Commercialisation.
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