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Web Directions

Once again, Web Directions South lived up to its reputation as one of the world's best events for the web industry. And the feedback from attendees was that this was the best event to date

Web Directions South 2010 at a glance

where: Sydney, Australia when: October 13 and 14 2010 participants: 700+ from around Australia, and across the globe speakers: Scott Thomas, Patrick Lee, Steve Souders, Juliette Melton, Tim Harrison, James Bridle, Gordon Grace, Craig Sharkie, Max Wheeler, Craig Mod, Tatham Oddie, Silvia Pfeiffer, Jacqui Begbie, Paula Bray, Dmitry Baranovskiy, Darren Menachemson, Dan Rubin, Shane Morris, Grant Young, Donna Spencer, Myles Eftos, Knud Möller, Lisa Herrod, Daniel Davis, Neil King, Simon Pascal Klein, Josh Williams, Ben Schwarz, Michal Migurski, John Allsopp, Rob Manson, Paul Hagon, Kenny Johar, HTML5 Panel, Naveed Anwar, Divya Manian, Matt Balara, Michael™ Smith, David Gravina, Mark Nottingham Topics: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, SVG, interaction design, user experience, user research, web content and more Partners: Adobe, Microsoft, Paypal, Atlassian, Opera Software, W3C, Sitecore, Campaign Monitor, Anchor, Vision Australia, Yahoo!, Digital Eskimo, Readify, Affinity Live, RocketBoots

What the organizers said

John Allsopp, co-founder of Web Directions says

The feedback we've received from numerous attendees confirmed our belief that Web Directions this year was the best yet. With the emergence of HTML5 and CSS3, and explosion of mobile devices and tablets providing a first class web experience, it's an exciting time for the web industry, and that excitement was very much captured at Web Directions.

The only downside is we'll have to work even harder to top 2010 next year, but we're working on that already.

Tweets, blog posts and media coverage

Tracey Meziane Benson writes

As a first timer, I understand now why so many web people make the pilgrimage to Web Directions year after year, as this is a great opportunity to learn, network, catch up with friends, colleagues and even past students. One of the things that hit me the most is this where people talk about how they make things, rather than just thinking or writing about it (which is what I have spent last 9 years doing -  focusing on my PhD). I am looking forward to much more time to play and learning through doing, not just observing and I have plenty of inspiration thanks to Web Directions.

The Next Web, Australia covered Day 1 and Day 2 in Detail. They said

A big congratulations must go to John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin, the organisers of Web Directions South, and their team for delivering a fantastic Web Directions South 2010. I can safely say that many people are already looking forward to WDS 2011.

Lisa Lang from ComputerWorld covered Web Directions South, with several in depth articles.

Craig Campbell covers days 1 and 2 of the conference.

I have been looking forward to this event because it shows me the leading people in the areas of web standards, accessibility, XHTML, JavaScript and CSS. The organizers of the conference, John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin, always do an awesome job developing a conference which is exactly what us web developers/designers need.

Sitepoint dissects Cameron Adam's extraordinary HTML5 + CSS3 opening title sequence for Web Directions

From the Tweet stream (over 3700 tweets)

• Web directions JQuery workshop rocks!
• Getting ready for #wdx It's going to be awesome!
• can't decide which program session I am looking forward to the most....
• my favourite conference of the year
• Looking forward to being amongst talented and inspiring peeps!
• Ready to be inspired at #wdx tomorrow!
• I love that #wdx has barristas, good coffee and great wifi
• Sucks to be missing #wdx this year after an awesome week last year
• Just got in to the #wdx, very excited..
• I'm so high on #wdx I may not need coffee, but I'm getting some anyway
• Free and open wireless for #wdx nice!
• Webdirections south already a hit by me on account of the awesome free coffee! Thanks guys!
• Wow, amazing opening sequence in HTML and CSS. Incredible.
• Intro video was amazing built by the @maninblue in htlm5 and css3 running in browser. #wdx - mind = blown
• Conference intro was stunning. I thought it was video. It was all HTML5 and CSS3. Very impressive
• Really insightful presentation from @simplescott. Great way to kick off #wdx
• Wifi at #wdx is utterly incredible. Download: 25Mbps. YOWZA!
• Web Directions South is go! So good to be here again. Good speakers, friendly people
• Conference intro was stunning. I thought it was video. It was all HTML5 and CSS3. Very impressive.
• What a depressing day @webdirections is on and I'm not there,
• The web directions now app is cool.
• missing @webdirections in Sydney right now. really need to get back down to Australia
• Fantastic opening keynote at wds

We could go on (and on, and on) but you get the picture.

Photos

View hundreds of photos from participants at Flickr

Video

Simon Cariss put together this video of his day 1 experience

Take a walk through the expo space to get a sense of the vibe, and who attends Web Directions South

Startup Australia put together several video interviews at Web Directions. See them interview

Keynote Speaker Scott Thomas on the Obama Campaign

Paul Burnett from Adobe talking about Adobe's support for HTML5