Web Standards Group

Meetings

RSS Feed

Upcoming Meetings

Friday 24 July, 2009
July Canberra WSG meeting
Presentation 1: Simon Pascal Klein - Beautiful Web Typography
Presentation 2: Paul Hagon - Where am I? Building location aware websites

Past Meetings

Thursday 11 June, 2009
Web Standards Group Casual June (Sydney)
No lectures, presentations or PowerPoint slides, plenty of interesting people keen on discussing how to keep standards-compliance at the forefront of current projects.
Wednesday 20 May, 2009
May meeting (Melbourne)
Ivan Herman (Semantic Web) and Michael(tm) Smith (HTML5 and XHTML2)
Friday 15 May, 2009
May Canberra WSG meeting
Presentation 1: Ivan Herman - Introduction and Applications of Semantic Web
Presentation 2: Michael(tm) Smith - HTML5, XHTML2: Learning from history about how to drive the future of the Web
Wednesday 13 May, 2009
May Sydney WSG meeting
Presentation 1: Ivan Herman - Introduction and Applications of Semantic Web
Presentation 2: Michael(tm) Smith - HTML5, XHTML2: Learning from history about how to drive the future of the Web
Tuesday 12 May, 2009
May Brisbane WSG meeting
Presentation 1: Ivan Herman - Introduction and Applications of Semantic Web
Presentation 2: Michael(tm) Smith - HTML5, XHTML2: Learning from history about how to drive the future of the Web
Thursday 23 April, 2009
Web Standards Group Casual (Sydney)
No lectures, presentations or PowerPoint slides, plenty of interesting people keen on discussing how to keep standards-compliance at the forefront of current projects.
Wednesday 18 March, 2009
March Canberra WSG meeting
Presentation 1: Stephen Collins - Public engagement. Public empowerment.
Presentation 2: Mark Schenk - Stories: An unlikely way to find out what's really going on
Wednesday 11 March, 2009
March Sydney WSG meeting
Presentation 1: Raphaël, JavaScript Vector Library - Dmitry Baranovskiy
Presentation 2: Wireframes considered harmful - Tom Voirol
Thursday 26 February, 2009
February Brisbane WSG meeting
Teale Shapcott on Agile Usability
Damian Hickey on Jentla, Enterprise Joomla
Monday 16 February, 2009
February meeting (Melbourne)
Kevin Yank, author of "Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong" talks about why the future of web page design is ... tables.
Wednesday 04 February, 2009
February Canberra WSG meeting
Jessica Enders: Zebra striping: the mouse that roared.
Donna Spencer: Involving Users: Why is it so hard to do the right thing?
Thursday 27 November, 2008
November Canberra WIPA/WSG meeting
Government 2.0 - trends and adoption strategies by Matthew Hodgson. Web 2.0 in Government - Buzzwords and Opportunities by Stephen Zafir
Monday 17 November, 2008
November meeting (Melbourne)
Chris Sampson and Ian Stewart: Web 2.0 meets the Victorian Government for the first time...
Tuesday 07 October, 2008
October meeting 2008 (Sydney)
1. Ambient Personalisation & Rich Interaction Mechanisms
2. New Stuff in Web Standards
Monday 29 September, 2008
September meeting (Melbourne)
Join us for an evening of Opera... no, not that kind of opera! Two of Opera Software's sharpest minds will be presenting on accessibility, standards and the future of the Web.
1 comment
Wednesday 27 August, 2008
August Meeting (Melbourne)
Join us and AIMIA as not one but two usability experts share their experience and deliver practical advice that you can use in the real world.
1 comment
Tuesday 19 August, 2008
August meeting 2008 (Sydney)
1. Findability: going beyond SEO
2. One Web, No Go
3. Building web apps for iPhones
2 comments
Wednesday 23 July, 2008
July Canberra WIPA/WSG meeting
Jessica Enders (Formulate Information Design), the secrets of successful online forms; plus Alexi Paschalidis (Oxide Interactive) and Tim Siers (Royal Australian Navy), redevelopment of the Royal Australian Navy web site
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
Friday 16 May, 2008
May meeting 2008 (Sydney)
Richard Ishida and José Manuel Alonso
Thursday 15 May, 2008
May Meeting (Melbourne)
José Manuel Alonso and Richard Ishida (joint event with Web Directions)
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