Webstock

Webstock is a web technology conference held in Wellington, New Zealand featuring a range of high profile speakers covering a variety of web-related topics such as accessibility, usability, ethnographic design and development practices.

Webstock began in 2005 and was created by a small non-profit group (consisting of Mike Brown, Natasha Hall, Debbie Sidelinger and Ben Lampard).

Speakers at the first four-day Webstock in 2006 included Dori Smith, Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley, Rachel McAlpine, Douglas Bowman, Heather Hesketh, Russell Brown (PublicAddress), Tony Chor (Microsoft), Darren Fittler, Kelly Goto, Ben Goodger (Firefox / Google), Rowan Simpson (Trade Me), Donna Maurer, Joel Spolsky, Kathy Sierra, Andreas Girardet (creator of Yoper) and Steve Champeon.

The second Webstock ran from 10–15 February, 2008, with speakers including Shawn Henry (W3C), Simon Willison (Django), Scott Berkun, Amy Hoy, Peter Morville, Nat Torkington, Dan Cederholm, Kelly Goto, Michael Lopp, Cal Henderson, Jill Whalen, Russell Brown, Jason Santa Maria, Rachel McAlpine, Sam Morgan (Trade Me), Tom Coates (Yahoo!), Liz Danzico, Damian Conway (Perl), Luke Wroblewski and Kathy Sierra.

The third Webstock scheduled for 16-20 February features Bruce Sterling, Tom Coates (Yahoo!), Jane McGonigal, Ze Frank, Jasmina Tesanovic, Adrian Holovaty, Matt Jones & Matt Biddulph of Dopplr, David Recordon (key contributor to OpenID and Open Platforms Tech Lead for Six Apart, Toby Segaran, Heather Champ (Flickr), Derek Powazek, Derek Featherstone and Michael Lopp.

Webstock Mini

In between the major conferences, the group runs one day and evening events a regularly throughout the year, featuring both New Zealand and International speakers.

References

^ [http://idealog.co.nz/magazine/january-february-2008/now/the-webstock-flock/ "Webstock Flock"] . Idealog.

^ [http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/devt/89D4B6BDE3952BCECC2573DB000BDE1B/ "Whither the web – experts see fickle future"] . Computerworld (2008-01-30).

^ [http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/49E8FEE2FE4EC70FCC257142001A621D?Opendocument&HighLight=2,webstock "Rock Webstock and raise web standards"] . Computerworld (2006-04-06).

External links

* [http://www.webstock.org.nz/ Webstock]