* Thursday October 9th, 7pm *
* 580 St Kilda Road Melbourne *

* AGM - 7:00 - 7:15 am *
* Streaming the World for Free - Ben Balbo - 7:15 - 7:45 pm *
* Cloud Computing, a primer - Ben Balbo - 8:00 - 8:15 pm *
* Lightening Talks? *
* Socialising & Networking 8:30pm onward *

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On Monday, September 29th, not one but TWO experts from Opera Software (Andreas Bovens & Charles McCathieNevile) will be in town, and have kindly agreed to talk for us on the topics of standards, accessibility and the future of the Web. This event will occur at Loop Bar in the city, note this is a Monday night. Both speakers are based overseas (Tokyo and Norway), and this is their only Melbourne speaking engagement, so be sure to get along!

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Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web applications, intranet and internet sites - one day course. Ever wonder why users don’t behave how you expect? Ever done usability testing or found usability issues but didn’t know how to fix them?

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Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable web applications - one day course. From internet banking, online learning, government transactional sites to employee phonebooks, online projects increasingly include elements of web application design.

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As the annual conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA), OZCHI attracts an international community of researchers and practitioners with a wide range of interests, including usability, information architecture, interaction design, human factors and ergonomics, human-computer interaction, information systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence, design, social sciences and management. The long and short papers accepted in the conference will be included in the proceedings of the ACM Digital Library.

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Featuring exciting national and international speakers, Edge of the Web brings a world-class web conference experience to Western Australia this November 6 & 7. The Edge of the Web conference is a brought to you by the Australian Web Industry Association and Red Horizon Events. Edge of the Web 2008 aims to set a benchmark in the West Australian web development community as a hallmark event on the Perth calendar.

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30 sessions, 10 international speakers, 3 tracks, 5 workshops, 4 very full days covering the technologies, techniques and strategies you need to build the best possible web sites and applications.

Add plenty of networking and social events, engaging hallway conversations, an expo of highly relevant products and services, and switched on professionals just like you from all over the world, and you get the “best conference ever!”

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Railscamp #4 is coming up soon and registrations are now open! This event will be held at Woodhouse in Piccadilly, 15 minute drive from the CBD of Adelaide in South Australia, Australia. The event will run from the 14th to the 17th November starting at 2pm on Friday and finishing at 12pm on Monday.
The venue is in the Adelaide hills and is a large property. There are 55 tickets for bunkers (at $100 each) and some also available for campers ($80 each). Your ticket pays for your food (breakfast x 3, lunch x 2, dinner x 2), accommodation, transportation to and from the event and all the fun times you’ll have when here.

You can register at http://railscamp08.eventwax.com/railscamp-november-2008