That's right, the next Webjam event will be held in Perth! There is an amazing amount of cool web stuff happening in Western Australia and we want to help them show it off. Webjam will held Wednesday, August 15th, at the Velvet Lounge in Mt Lawley. It starts at 6pm with presentations kicking off at 6.30pm
Perth has an awesome active community of kick-arse webby geeks and we cannot wait to see them step up and show us their western mojo!
If you're one of the aforementioned world-rocking web peeps in WA (or you have lots of frequent flyer points) then we want you strutting your 3 minute stuff on stage at the Velvet Lounge on the 15th. It's only 3 weeks away, but at a week a minute, you've got plenty of time to deliver a seriously cool bit of web kit
For those who aren't familiar with the concept, Webjam gives 16-18 of you 3 minutes only to show a room full of your peers the coolest thing you've done on the web lately. It can be design, development, consulting, art. It can be commercial or public sector. As long as you think it's cool, we want to see it. Apply to present now, you know you want to!
If your supa-secret project that will change the face of the web isn't quite ready yet, that's cool. We want you to come to. Somebody has to cheer, heckle, vote and drink all the booze! RSVP to let us know you're coming
We run Idol-style SMS voting on the night to determine the winner. Unlike Idol, we're not making any money off your texts, so you only get one vote for each presentation, but everybody who votes goes into a draw for some yet-to-be-determined-but-undeniably awesome prize
Speaking of prizes, Adobe are offering the winner on the night a copy of Adobe CS3 Web Premium. Frankly, I'm brutally jealous. CS3 is glorious and it's a hell of a deal to get that for free!
We're still open for other potential prize offerings. We'd love to have some other cool stuff to give away for presentation places and for our lucky voter prize. If you or your company have shiny prizes or just want to sponsor us some cash money money (we've got some spots free!), then you can email us at welovesponsors@webjam.com.au
Big ups to Myles Eftos, wearing his AWIA hat, for helping us sort out the details and for letting me convince him that it was a good idea to cram it into the same week as the WA Web Awards. He's even declared the result to be WA Web Week. So cool!
Hold on to your hats, Perth, Webjam is coming to town and we can't wait to see you rock it!