Yeah, that’s right, peeps. Webjam is back!
We’ve been cooking up all sorts of crazy schemes for making Webjam bigger, better, faster, stronger and we’re ready to unleash them on you. Starting with an absolutely massive event in only two weeks time!
Webjam 8
Webjam has arranged with the awesome organisers of Web Directions South to hold our event on the evening of the first day of their conference. Thursday, 25th of September. Doors open at 7.30pm, giving conference attendees plenty of time to get to the venue, Bar Broadway. Everybody is welcome, though, this is not a conference-only event. Come one, come all, but make sure you sign up, because tickets will disappear fast!
The Site
Sign up for an account at our brand spanking new site in order to register for the event. We’re pushing boundaries with this site. We want it to be an exemplar of the innovation we see in our local community and thanks to an incredibly long list of legendary contributors, we’re well on our way. Part of that is requiring you to use an OpenID to create an account. I imagine that will be a sticking point for some of you, and I’ve addressed our reasoning on the site. Accounts mean you can register to attend or present at events, make blog comments, and they also lets us do a bunch of other fun stuff we’re planning on rolling out in the coming months. If you don’t want to sign up, please email me personally or come and talk to us at our Get Satisfaction account, we’d love to hear what you have to say.
We’ve opened up the majority of our code for anybody to see at the fantastic social development collaboration site, Github. Anybody can fork it, work with it, play with it. Hopefully, you’ll even offer us some patches! Over time, we’ll add the rest of our code and look at how we license it all. Anybody else who wants to join the contributors list is very welcome! We have fun hack days with BBQs and beer.
Sponsorship
The incredible web community in Australia needs a platform to show off all the fantastic work and innovations being developed here. We formed Webjam to provide that platform. But we need your help.
We’re offering three tiers of sponsorship to make this possible. For each event, there will be a maximum of two Major Sponsors and any number of Sponsors. The third tier exists to provide an opportunity for small independent businesses and individuals to offer their own support to the event and our community. If you can sponsor us, or you want some more formal information about sponsorship, please email welovesponsors@webjam.com.au.
Pimpage!
We’ve only got a few short weeks until the event (and this isn’t the only one we have planned!), so please pimp this as much as you can. We need presenters. We need sponsors. And, most of all, we need you!
This event is sourced within, and depends on, the community it sprang from. Without your support, your presentations, your attendance, and, let’s be honest, your dollars, we can’t run this event. Twitter it. Blog it. Flickr it. Email it. Sign up to present. Convince your friends to present. Convince your bosses to sponsor it. Tell everybody you know. We want to build something that inspires all of us. Doing that requires all of us.
So, go register for the biggest community event you’ve been involved with all year and we’ll get this party started!
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lstoll
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about 1 year
ago.
Awesome! Can't wait. Seriously pumped up.