A Diverse Event
For many years, at Web Directions we've made the diversity of our speaker line up, and audience a very real priority. Thanks to the generous support of Atlassian, we're offering up to 5 diversity scholarships to the Sydney edition of Code.
Nominations must close Friday the 15th of July.
Who is eligible?
Our goal is to broaden the range of attendees. We're focussing on people who are unemployed, under-employed, self employed or in the early stages (up to 3 years) of their careers who identify as belonging to a group or groups under-represented at events like Code, and who might otherwise find it difficult to afford to attend.
Under-represented groups include, but are not limited to
- Indigenous Australians
- People with Disabilities
- Women
- People living in remote, rural or regional Australia
- Recent migrants to Australia (particularly from non English speaking backgrounds) and refugees
- People over the age of 45
- People of diverse gender identity
- Members of the LGBT community
If you don't feel you fit into any of these particular categories, but do feel you belong to an under represented group, and meet our other criteria, please apply below.
Please note, this scholarship is available to Australian citizens and residents currently living in Australia.
Who may nominate a person for a scholarship
You may nominate someone you know who you feel would benefit from receiving a scholarship, or nominate yourself.
What is covered?
For those who live in Sydney, a "Silver" conference ticket, which includes a place at our speaker dinner.
For those who live further away, we'll be able to cover transport to and from Sydney, accommodation close by the conference, as well as a conference ticket and place at the speaker dinner.
How will a decision be made?
Web Directions will balance varying considerations to attempt to create as much diversity and opportunity as possible. Any information you provide will be kept in strictest confidence, and used only to help allocate scholarship places.
All scholarship recipients will attend the event like any other attendee and will not be identified publicly as a diversity scholarship recipient.
What Do I have to do to apply?
Simply complete this form, and we'll be in touch shortly after July 15th
Partners
At Web Directions we work closely with partners to help make our events even better. Sponsor our coffee, a juice bar, a reception or drinks, and start, or grow your relationship with Australia's leading Front End engineers and JavaScript developers
Contact us for more on how we work can work with you to help you be even more awesome.
Partners
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Henry David Thoreau
We know you are busy
Creating and managing a great team, exploring the creative limits of today's technology, and tomorrow's. We know your life is full to the brim with meetings you can't miss.
What we'll deliver is ROT (return on your time). We'll help you save time avoiding rabbit holes of hype that doesn't match reality. We'll help you invest your time wisely in the technologies, ideas and projects that will deliver for your company, clients and partners.
Praise for past Web Directions events
Web Directions is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development.
Phil Whitehouse, General Manager, DT Sydney
I’ve been admiring the Web Directions events for years, and was honored to be part… What a fantastic event!
Ethan Marcotte, inventor of "responsive Web design"
Out of any conference, Web Directions is far and away our favourite
Dave Greiner, founder, Campaign Monitor
About Us
Co-founded and now run by John Allsopp, Web Directions has for over a decade brought together leading developers, engineers, visual, IxD, UX and product designers, Art and Creative Directors, indeed everyone involved in producing web and digital products to learn from one another, and the World's leading experts across this vast field.
We spend our lives thinking about what comes next, keeping up with trends in technology, practices and processes, and filtering the hype, to make sure you don't miss trends that matter, and don't waste time on hype that doesn't.
We promise attending one of our events will leave you significantly better versed in the challenges you face day to day, and in solutions for addressing them.
John Allsopp
John Allsopp has been working on the Web for over 20 years. He's been responsible for innovative developer tools such as Style Master, X-Ray and many more. He's spoken at numerous conferences around the World and delivered dozens of workshops in that time as well.
His writing includes two books, including Developing With Web Standards and countless articles and tutorials in print and online publications.
His "A Dao of Web Design" published in 2000 is cited by Ethan Marcotte as a key influence in the development of Responsive Web Design, who's rightly acclaimed article in 2010 begins by quoting John in detail, and by Jeremy Keith as "a manifesto for anyone working on the Web".
Code of Conduct
For over a decade, we've worked hard to create inclusive, fun, inspring and safe events for the Web Industry.
As part of our commitment to these values, we've adopted a code of conduct for all involved: ourselves, our speakers, our partners and our audience.
If you have any concern or feedback, please don't hesitate to contact us.