Web Directions

Introducing Aconex, our student scholarship sponsor

• By:John
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• September 9, 2008
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Since we started Web Directions, we’ve tried to make the conference accessible as possible. Which doesn’t just mean accessible to people with special needs, but also as affordable as possible. One way we do this is by making the conference as reasonably priced as possible. Now, you might say $1050 is a pretty significant price, and it’s certainly not chicken feed, but we do have early bird pricing, and even bigger discounts for past attendees. Even $1050 works out to be about the price of a cup of coffee every working day of the year.

But certainly one area in which affordability is an issue is for students. So to address this, we’ve always offered student pricing, for full time students, at cost — simply the cost of catering and other per head costs like the conference bag, not the cost of speakers, the venue and so on. We also offer places to indigenous students free of charge.

This year, Aconex, who develop online document management and web collaboration tools, have generously offered to support our scholarships as the Web Directions Student Scholarship enabler. Many many thanks to Aconex — and this should enable us to extend the scholarship in future.

Make sure you keep an eye out for the students at the conference — many I am sure will be looking for internships, and job opportunities. Web Directions has in fact now hired one of the students who attended last year full time. You know the students who come will be really committed — as they’ve paid to attend (this is a principle reason we have a fee). So if you are looking for an intern or employee, these folks will be an excellent place to start.

Thanks again to Aconex for this fantastic support of something we feel is a very important part of the conference.

2 responses to “Introducing Aconex, our student scholarship sponsor”:

1. • By:Scott Donald
   • September 9th, 2008
   

   Great post, i’m a Web Development graduate, i’ve been really grateful to my mentors and sponsors in setting up my freelance business Creative Design . So i’m glad to see you are paying it forward and helping the aspiring designers.

2. • By:Greg Ewing
   • September 26th, 2008
   

   As one of the first developers at Aconex I can say what a fantastic environment it is. I have long ago gone on to greater things but had the opportunity to learn more in my 5 years with the company than I have anywhere else in my 20 years in the IT industry. Innovative, friendly, inclusive and prepared to be exceptionally flexible to those with a great work ethic. Leigh and Rob, the founders, are immensely talented and great fun to work with. Once we got over the initial and typical start-​​up hiccups, there was never any doubt that they would deliver on their vision and want to share their success with the Australian community.

   If you consider yourself a top-​​gun graduate in IT then you should do yourself a favour as they are currently after a lot of clever people right now.

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