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Port80 event in Sydney on the eve of Web Directions

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• By:John
• September 17, 2006
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The inde­fati­ga­ble Miles Burke, of Bam Creative, and one of the founders of the Web indus­try asso­ci­a­tion Port80, along with a whole tribe of sand­grop­ers (that’s folks from Western Australia for our non Australian audi­ence) are once more head­ing east for Web Directions. Each year more of them come, and each year they seem to have more fun.

Poort80 is look­ing to start up a Sydney chap­ter, to go along with their Perth, Melbourne and Canberra chap­ters (and Rochester New York too), and are hav­ing an inau­gural meet­ing on the eve of Web Directions, Wednesday 27^th September. All are wel­come, even if you can’t quite make it to Web Directions this year.

We need organ­i­sa­tions like this in our indus­try! There is no focussed web indus­try asso­ci­a­tion in Australia (we have related ones, it’s true, but they frankly don’t have the focus required).

So if you are arriv­ing wednes­day, you’ll have aready made social event to attend. Here are the details.

Port80 touches down in Sydney

Port 80 (the Australian Web Industry Association) is hop­ing to open a chap­ter* in Sydney!

That’s right folks — Sydney folks (and those vis­it­ing for Web Directions 06) get to find out what those in WA, VIC, ACT and in the USA have known for a while;

1. Meeting col­leagues and peers in the web indus­try is great
2. It’s even bet­ter on the first Wednesday of the month, with a beer in hand.
3. Hey, lets start a club and have a rea­son to go to the pub!

The Wednesday evening of Web Directions week, that’s Wednesday 27^th September, start­ing at 6.30pm, come along and meet your peers in the indus­try, have a drink, talk about where the indus­try is head­ing and be a part of the local web indus­try. There’s no lec­tures, no spon­sor talks, it’s all very infor­mal and friendly. It all hap­pens at;

Pumphouse Bar

17 Little Pier Street,

Darling Harbour

For a map to the venue (5 min­utes walk from UTS), please visit http://​www​.pump​house​bar​.com​.au/​l​o​c​a​t​i​on/

For more infor­ma­tion about Port80, see http://​www​.port80​.asn​.aucommittee@​port8​0​.​asn.​au

We look for­ward to see­ing you there!

5 responses to “Port80 event in Sydney on the eve of Web Directions”:

1. • By:Scott Mackenzie
   • September 18th, 2006
   

   Very cool. We’ll have to come down early (from Brisbane) to check this out. Maybe Bris-​​Vegas will be next!

2. • By:John
   • September 18th, 2006
   

   Thanks Scott,

   I am sure there’d be great inter­est — any briswe­gians out there interested?

   BTW, keep an eye out for some­thing cool com­ing shortly which will hlep con­fer­ence goers find out who has sim­i­lar inter­ests, and is in your gen­er­all vicin­ity (all opt in of course)

   Great for net­work­ing for things like this

   j

3. • By:Gavin Jacobi
   • September 18th, 2006
   

   I am for it.
   Anything to add to Brisbane’s already excit­ing and fast paced lifestyle. *cough*

   Especially now that Ben Buchanan has defected to Sydney. :-)

4. • By:Miles Burke
   • September 18th, 2006
   

   Hey, thanks for the pro­mo­tion John.

   We’re keen for catch­ing up with as many atten­dees and oth­ers to see if we can’t get Sydney kick­ing along with Port 80. The more non locals that attend too, great!

   Speaking of which, we’ve got at least one Brisbane per­son as a mem­ber of Port 80, and if there’s inter­est, i’ll be sure to fly on over to get the Bris-​​vegas chap­ter hap­pen­ing too! :)

5. • By:Miles’ Blog » Port80 Sydney - Thoughts and errata from Miles Burke.
   • September 18th, 2006

   […] Update: John Allsopp says it even bet­ter than I could. Read this. […]

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