Webstock
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Webstock is a biannual conference held in Wellington, New Zealand.
It features a range of web industry leaders talking on a variety of web-related topics such as accessibility, usability, ethnographic design, progressive development and other best practices and methodologies.
Webstock is the brainchild of a small non-profit group whose mission is to "promote raising the standard of web sites in their own backyard (and abroad), and have a jolly good time while they're doing it" and consists of Mike Brown, Debbie Sidelinger, Ben Lampard, Miraz Jordan, Sigurd Magnusson and Natasha Hall.
Speakers at the first four-day Webstock in 2006 included Dori Smith, Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley, Rachel McAlpine, Douglas Bowman, Heather Hesketh, Russell Brown (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.
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In between the major conferences, one day and evening events are run a few times a year, featuring both New Zealand and offshore speakers.
