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Upcoming Meetings

Thursday 15 May, 2008
May Meeting (Melbourne)
José Manuel Alonso and Richard Ishida (joint event with Web Directions)
Friday 16 May, 2008
May meeting 2008 (Sydney)
Richard Ishida and José Manuel Alonso
Thursday 22 May, 2008
May Canberra WIPA/WSG meeting
Dr Darrell Williamson (CSIRO ICT Centre), service science technologies and architectures in the ICT Centre; plus David Ratcliffe (CSIRO e-Services Integration group), GRDDL - an explanation and demonstration

Past Meetings

Wednesday 23 April, 2008
April meeting (Melbourne)
John Allsopp: "The Web Beyond The Desktop", and Gerry Gaffney: "How Users Really Search"
Thursday 27 March, 2008
March Canberra WIPA/WSG meeting
Brian Stonebridge (Department Finance and Deregulation), the GovDex tool to support collaboration across government agencies; plus Michele Huston (National Library of Australia), Wikis at work
Thursday 28 February, 2008
February meeting (Melbourne)
Paul Fenwick on starting an open source business
1 comment
Thursday 21 February, 2008
February meeting (Sydney)
Online Video: A standard document format for business
Wednesday 06 February, 2008
An Evening With Molly Holzschlag (Melbourne)
Come along and take part in an informal Q&A session with one of the industry's leading educators and best-practice advocators.
Thursday 31 January, 2008
January meeting (Canberra)
Geoff Dibley (Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry), They came, they search, they leave - improving internal site search for users; plus Paul Hagon (National Library of Australia), Users aren't as clever as you think they are - search analysis of Picture Australia
Thursday 06 December, 2007
December meeting (Melbourne)
James Farmer on blogging tools
Wednesday 05 December, 2007
December meeting (Sydney)
4 x 20:
Geoff Bowers - Setting Fire To Your Community
Craig Sharkie - Learning to love libraries
Lisa Herrod - RSS to the RSScue
Steve Baty - tinyURL and trust relationships online
Wednesday 21 November, 2007
November meeting (Canberra)
Debra Wells, Screen reader testing of Australian Government web sites; plus Ruth Ellison (Stamford Interactive), Implementing accessibility in Government
1 comment
Thursday 18 October, 2007
October meeting (Sydney)
Jo Kay talks about Second Life and Mick Liubinskas talks about Web Apps: A Trillion Tiny Transactions.
Thursday 04 October, 2007
October Meeting (Melbourne)
John Cheng and David Patkin from Berrigan Doube lawyers: Get It In Writing!
Thursday 04 October, 2007
October meeting (Canberra)
Donna Maurer (Maadmob Interaction Design), Information architecture - beyond the hierarchy; plus Andrew Boyd (SMS Management & Technology), Prototyping as part of the web design process
3 comments
Thursday 02 August, 2007
August meeting (Sydney)
Christy Dena: "Thinking Outside the Web" and Scott Parsons: "Ambient Personalization". Sponsored by Sydney Web.
Thursday 02 August, 2007
August Meeting (Melbourne).
The Great Webate #1: "Great Web Controversies"
2 comments
Thursday 26 July, 2007
July meeting (Canberra)
Stephen Collins (acidlabs), Collaboration, innovation, distribution: social computing adoption benefits for government and business, plus Matthew Hodgson (SMS Management & Technology), Goldilocks and the three bears: a story about social computing in government
1 comment
Thursday 07 June, 2007
June meeting (Melbourne)
Shane Morris (Microsoft): "Designers and developers - learning to get along"
3 comments
Thursday 31 May, 2007
May meeting (Sydney)
Shane Morris, User Experience Evangelist, Microsoft
"Designers and developers - learning to get along"
Patrick Kennedy, User experience architect, Step Two Designs
"Intranets - why you should care?"
Thursday 31 May, 2007
May meeting (Canberra)
John Allsopp (Westciv) on microformats, plus Brian Hardy (Vision Australia) on the accessibility of PDF files
Thursday 03 May, 2007
May Meeting (Melbourne)
Roger Hudson (Exploring Tag Clouds) and Russ Weakley (Letting Users Create Their Own Experience)
1 comment
Wednesday 28 March, 2007
March meeting (Canberra)
Shane Morris (Microsoft) on designers and developers - learning to get along, plus Craig Errey (PTG Global) on bridging the gap between requirements and design
3 comments
Tuesday 20 March, 2007
March meeting (Sydney)
Ted Patrick is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe Systems. Earle Castledine - Yahoo Pipes.
Thursday 01 February, 2007
February meeting (Melbourne)
James Edwards (Brothercake) on "What has Ajax done for us anyway?"
1 comment
Thursday 25 January, 2007
January meeting (Sydney)
Four speakers, 20 mins each:
Cheryl Lead - Life after code
Lachlan Hunt - The Future of HTML
Dmitry Baranovskiy - Typography on the Web
Scott Gledhill - Corporate Semantics
1 comment
Thursday 18 January, 2007
January meeting (Canberra)
Three presentations: Navy web site redevelopment, 2006 web standards audit of Australian Government home pages, and Best practice tactics for government web sites
Wednesday 13 December, 2006
melbourne massive 06
A massive end-of-year function for Melbourne's web community.
Tuesday 12 December, 2006
web-blast 06 - Canberra
Web-blast Canberra is a huge end-of-year party for Sydney's web community.
Thursday 30 November, 2006
web-blast 06 - Sydney
Web-blast is a huge end-of-year party for Sydney's web community.
Thursday 02 November, 2006
November meeting (Melbourne)
Lisa Herrod (Usability) and Dave Roberts & Sarah Drechsler (McFarlane prize winners)
Thursday 26 October, 2006
October meeting (Canberra)
Two presentations: Australian Government web site standards, and Involving users in the design process: the Hiser Element Methodology
Thursday 19 October, 2006
October meeting (Sydney)
Lee Kumutat - "The web - a blind perspective"
Dominique Lee - "The mobile web. What you need to know right now"

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