Webstock
Encyclopedia
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).
(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.
(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.
, Nat Torkington, Derek Powazek, Meg Pickard (Guardian Unlimited
, Matt Jones
and Matt Biddulph of Dopplr
, Fiona Romeo, David Recordon
(key contributor to OpenID
and then Open Platforms Tech Lead for Six Apart
), Cameron Adams, Pamela Fox, Adrian Holovaty
, Heather Champ (Flickr
), Michael Lopp. Ze Frank
, Russell Brown, Derek Featherstone, Annalee Newitz
, Joshua Porter, Toby Segaran, Jasmina Tesanovic
, Russ Weakley, Ben Goodger, Tom Coates
(Yahoo!
), Bruce Sterling
, and Damian Conway
.
, Shelley Bernstein, Daniel Burka
, Ben Cerveny, Sebastian Chan, Mike Davidson, Regine DeBatty, Esther Derby, Brian Fling, Thomas Fuchs, Adam Greenfield
, Lachlan Hardy, Lisa Herrod, Bek Hodgson, Amy Hoy, Mark Pesce, John Resig
, Eric Ries, Rives (poet)
, Kevin Rose
, Toby Segaran, Chris Shiflett, Scott Thomas
and Jeffrey Veen.
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
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).
Webstock 2006
Speakers at the first four-day Webstock in 2006 included Dori Smith, Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley, Rachel McAlpine, Douglas Bowman, Heather Hesketh, Russell BrownRussell Brown (New Zealand)
Russell Brown is a well-known New Zealand media commentator, and the owner of the Public Address community of blogs, and writes Hard News Hard News the blog is based on the Hard News radio slot spoken by Brown from 1991 to 2002 on bFM, an Auckland student radio station...
(PublicAddress), Tony Chor (Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
), Darren Fittler, Kelly Goto
Kelly Goto
Kelly Goto is the principal and founder of Gotomedia, a San Francisco-based consulting firm specializing in web site design. She is also the author of Web Redesign 2.0: Workflow that Works."- External links :*...
, Ben Goodger
Ben Goodger
Ben Goodger is a former employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and former lead developer of the Firefox web browser....
(Firefox / Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
), Rowan Simpson (Trade Me), Donna Maurer, Joel Spolsky
Joel Spolsky
Avram Joel Spolsky is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994. He later founded Fog Creek Software in 2000 and launched the Joel on Software blog...
, Kathy Sierra
Kathy Sierra
Kathy Sierra is a programming instructor and game developer.She is the co-creator of the Head First series of books on technical topics, along with her partner, Bert Bates. The series, which began with Head First Java in 2003, takes an unorthodox, visually intensive approach to the process of...
, Andreas Girardet (creator of Yoper
YOPER
Yoper Linux—Your Operating System—is a Linux distribution for PCs with i686 or higher processor types. It can be used for both personal computers and server use and uses hardware recognition tools known from Knoppix...
) and Steve Champeon.
Webstock 2008
The second Webstock ran from 10–15 February 2008 , with speakers including Shawn Henry (W3C), Simon WillisonSimon Willison
Simon Willison is a programmer and co-founder of the social conference directory Lanyrd. Originating from the UK, he is also a consultant on OpenID and client- and server-side Web development, a frequent public speaker and a co-creator of the Django Web framework...
(Django), Scott Berkun
Scott Berkun
Scott Berkun is an American author and speaker.Scott Berkun studied computer science, philosophy, and design at Carnegie Mellon University. He worked at Microsoft from 1994 to 2003 on Internet Explorer 1.0 to 5.0, Windows, MSN, and in roles including usability engineer, lead program manager, and UI...
, Amy Hoy, Peter Morville
Peter Morville
Peter Morville is president of Semantic Studios, an information architecture and findability consultancey. For over a decade, he has advised such clients as AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, Harvard Business School, Intenet2, Procter & Gamble, Vanguard, and Yahoo!...
, Nat Torkington, Dan Cederholm
Dan Cederholm
Dan Cederholm is a web designer, author, and speaker living in Salem, Massachusetts. He's the founder of SimpleBits, a web design studio , where he writes articles and commentary about the web, technology, and life. Cederholm is the author of two books on standards-based web design and CSS: and...
, Kelly Goto, Michael Lopp, Cal Henderson
Cal Henderson
Cal Henderson is a British computer programmer and author based in San Francisco. He was educated at Sharnbrook Upper School and Community College....
, Jill Whalen
Jill Whalen
Jill Whalen is a search engine optimization consultant, speaker and writer. Whalen is CEO of High Rankings, and co-founder of Search Engine Marketing New England . She is a regular speaker at Search Engine Strategies Conferences...
, Russell Brown, Jason Santa Maria, Rachel McAlpine, Sam Morgan
Sam Morgan (entrepreneur)
Sam Morgan is best known as the founder of TradeMe, New Zealand's largest online auction site, which he sold in 2006 to Australian media company Fairfax for over NZ$750 million.- Personal history :...
(Trade Me), Tom Coates
Tom Coates (technologist)
Tom Coates is a technologist and early weblogger based in San Francisco, California who has been writing plasticbag.org since 1999...
(Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
), Liz Danzico, Damian Conway
Damian Conway
Damian Conway is a prominent member of the Perl community, a proponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University....
(Perl
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
), Luke Wroblewski and Kathy Sierra.
Webstock 2009
The third Webstock ran from 16-20 February 2009, featuring: Jane McGonigalJane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal, Ph.D. is a game designer, games researcher, and author, specializing in pervasive gaming and alternate reality games ....
, Nat Torkington, Derek Powazek, Meg Pickard (Guardian Unlimited
Guardian Unlimited
guardian.co.uk, formerly known as Guardian Unlimited, is a British website owned by the Guardian Media Group. Georgina Henry is the editor...
, Matt Jones
Matt Jones (interaction designer)
Matt Jones is the co-author - with Gary Marsden - of Mobile Interaction Design and a full Professor at Swansea University. He is an active researcher and organizer of scientific conferences such as MobileHCI and has edited several special issues of journals including an ACM ToCHI journal special...
and Matt Biddulph of Dopplr
Dopplr
Dopplr is a free social networking service, launched in 2007, that allows users to create itineraries of their travel plans and spot correlations with their contacts’ travel plans in order to arrange meetings at any point on their journey. Additional features include allowing the user to calculate...
, Fiona Romeo, David Recordon
David Recordon
David Recordon , aka daveman692, is an open standards advocate currently residing in San Francisco. Recordon was formerly employed as an Open Platforms Tech Lead at blogging company Six Apart...
(key contributor to OpenID
OpenID
OpenID is an open standard that describes how users can be authenticated in a decentralized manner, eliminating the need for services to provide their own ad hoc systems and allowing users to consolidate their digital identities...
and then Open Platforms Tech Lead for Six Apart
Six Apart
Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company known for creating the Movable Type blogware, TypePad blog hosting service, and Vox. The company also is the former owner of LiveJournal. Six Apart is headquartered in Tokyo and is planning to open a new, U.S.-based office in New York...
), Cameron Adams, Pamela Fox, Adrian Holovaty
Adrian Holovaty
Adrian Holovaty is an American Web developer, journalist and entrepreneur living in Chicago, Illinois. He is co-creator of the Django Web framework and an advocate of "journalism via computer programming."...
, Heather Champ (Flickr
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
), Michael Lopp. Ze Frank
Ze Frank
On March 17, 2006, Frank launched the daily video program the show with zefrank. The format of the program combined commentary on media and current events with viewer contributions and activities...
, Russell Brown, Derek Featherstone, Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz is an American journalist who covers the cultural impact of science and technology. She received a PhD in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley, and in 1997 published the widely cited book, White Trash: Race and Class in America. From 2004–2005 she was a policy analyst...
, Joshua Porter, Toby Segaran, Jasmina Tesanovic
Jasmina Tešanovic
Jasmina Tešanović is an author, feminist, political activist , translator, and filmmaker....
, Russ Weakley, Ben Goodger, Tom Coates
Tom Coates (technologist)
Tom Coates is a technologist and early weblogger based in San Francisco, California who has been writing plasticbag.org since 1999...
(Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
), Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling
Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.-Writings:...
, and Damian Conway
Damian Conway
Damian Conway is a prominent member of the Perl community, a proponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University....
.
Webstock 2010
The fourth Webstock ran from 15-19 February 2010, featuring: Jeff AtwoodJeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood is a software developer, book author, podcaster and writer of the popular blog Coding Horror. Together with Joel Spolsky, he founded the question-and-answer website network Stack Exchange, which includes Stack Overflow for programmers, Server Fault for system administrators, and Super...
, Shelley Bernstein, Daniel Burka
Daniel Burka
Daniel Burka is best known as the creative director for website Digg. He is also a founding partner at the web design company , based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada....
, Ben Cerveny, Sebastian Chan, Mike Davidson, Regine DeBatty, Esther Derby, Brian Fling, Thomas Fuchs, Adam Greenfield
Adam Greenfield
Adam Greenfield is an American writer and designer, and is the founder and managing director of urban-systems design practice Urbanscale, based in New York. From 2008 to 2010 he was Nokia's head of design direction for user interface and services...
, Lachlan Hardy, Lisa Herrod, Bek Hodgson, Amy Hoy, Mark Pesce, John Resig
John Resig
John Resig is an application developer at Khan Academy. He was a JavaScript tool developer for the Mozilla Corporation. He is also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library. This library's goal is to simplify the process of writing cross-browser JavaScript code...
, Eric Ries, Rives (poet)
Rives (poet)
John G. Rives is a performance poet, storyteller, and author. He has appeared on multiple seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam and was a member of the Def Poetry international tour group. He has made multiple appearances at the TED Conference and has published several pop-up books for children...
, Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk...
, Toby Segaran, Chris Shiflett, Scott Thomas
Scott Thomas
Scott Thomas may refer to:*Scott Thomas , American district attorney*Scott Thomas , ice hockey player in the NHL*Scott Thomas , English football player...
and Jeffrey Veen.
Day 1 (Thursday 17th February)
Speakers:- Frank Chimero - The Digital Campfire
- Michael Koziarski - That's all well and good, but how does it help me?
- Christine Perfetti - Adventurous Usability Techniques: Novel Approaches for the Seasoned Pro
- David RecordonDavid RecordonDavid Recordon , aka daveman692, is an open standards advocate currently residing in San Francisco. Recordon was formerly employed as an Open Platforms Tech Lead at blogging company Six Apart...
- HTML5 at Facebook - Mark PilgrimMark PilgrimMark Pilgrim is a software developer, writer, and advocate of free software. He authors a popular blog, and has written several books including Dive into Python, a guide to the Python programming language published under the GNU Free Documentation License...
- The Future of the Web: where are we going and why am I in this handbasket? - Jason WebleyJason WebleyJason Webley is an American musician known for his fusion of folk, experimental and alternative music. He began as a busker, playing accordion in the streets of Seattle, Washington, but has since moved in-doors and on stage, playing various venues....
- Portrait of an Artist as an Independent Musician - Nicole SullivanNicole SullivanNicole Julianne Sullivan is an American actress, comedian and voice artist. Sullivan is best known for her six seasons on the sketch comedy series MADtv and five seasons on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens.She has played a recurring character on Scrubs and voices the villainous Shego in...
- CSS Tools for Massive Websites - Jason Santa Maria - On Web Typography
- Steve Souders - Web Performance Optimisation: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
- Kristina Halvorson - Content/Communication
- John GruberJohn GruberJohn Gruber is a writer from the greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area of the USA. Gruber received his Bachelor of Science in computer science from Drexel University. He worked for Bare Bones Software from 2000 to 2002 and Joyent from 2005 to 2006...
- The Gap Theory of UI Design - Doug Bowman - Delivering Delight
- Amanda PalmerAmanda PalmerAmanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer , sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is an American performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls...
talks new music paradigm, blogging, Twitter and life
Day 2 (Friday 18th February)
Speakers:- Marco ArmentMarco ArmentMarco Arment is an iOS and web developer living in Westchester, New York. He was the lead developer of the Tumblr blogging platform. He created and currently operates the Instapaper bookmark and reading service as well as co-hosting the Build and Analyze podcast.-External links:* * * * ]]...
- Contrary to popular beliefs - David McCandless - Information is Beautiful
- Glenda Sims - Practical Accessibility Testing
- Josh ClarkJosh Clark-Biography:Clark was born in Bethesda, Maryland. He studied acting at the North Carolina School of the Arts.His first screen role was in the 1976 TV movie The Other Side of Victory...
- Buttons Are a Hack: The New Rules of Designing for Touch - Jason Cohen - A Geek Sifts Through the Bullshit
- Peter SundePeter SundePeter Sunde Kolmisoppi is an IT expert with Norwegian and Finnish roots. He is best known for being a co-founder and the spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent tracker site.-Personal life:...
- The Pirate Bay of Penzance - Michael Lopp - An Engineering Mindset
- Tom CoatesTom CoatesTom Coates is a technologist and early weblogger based in San Francisco, California who has been writing plasticbag.org since 1999...
- Everything the Network Touches - Scott McCloudScott McCloudScott McCloud is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium...
- Comics: A Medium in Transition - Merlin MannMerlin MannMerlin Dean Mann III writes the blog . He received a B.A. from New College of Florida, and he currently resides in San Francisco, California with his wife, Madeline Mann, and their daughter, .-Writing:...
- Mime The Gap