WebJam Sydney

My second Web­Jam was inter­est­ing event. Held after WDS07 on a Sat­urday even­ing, in front of a couple hun­dred people. What was inter­est­ing was the line up of speak­ers. The biggest sur­prise for me was the lim­ited num­ber of local speak­ers, there was three inter­na­tional speak­ers Andy Clarke, Aaron Gust­afson and Chaals from Opera, add to that the WA con­ti­gent of me and Myles and you had I think 9 locals.

The aver­age quail­ity of present­a­tions was a little more pol­ished than in Perth. None was truely stun­ning, I had hoped Andy would walk on stage to the theme from Ocean’s eleven. The con­tent of present­a­tions was inter­est­ing Dimitry deserved to win with Optimus. Myles Eftos answered some Ruby on Rail­ers pray­ers with AJAX based fron­tend to the Ruby on Rails debug­ger and fin­ished second, just ahead of the guys from Digital Eskimo and their com­munity cam­paign about changes to the NSW licens­ing laws Raise the Bar!

My present­a­tion, 7 ways to improve your Web­Jam present­a­tion was con­ceived a couple weeks before Web­Jam, writ­ten on the flight to Sydney the week before, with the pol­ish­ing up and slides cre­ation done while sit­ting in the pub watch­ing the AFL grand final a few hours before WebJam.

I con­vinced Lach­lan that due to my repu­ta­tion as a WebSledger, I needed to go on first, I didn’t want to sledge any of my fel­low presenters, plus I didn’t want to break rule 1 don’t drink before going on stage. Though I don’t know if was a good idea, as Laurel took my advice about humour and added a really bad joke to her present­a­tion. The aim of my present­a­tion was to get people to think about how they present a little more and get some new people Web­Jam­ming, because it is fun and addict­ive. Now to think of some­thing to present at the next Web­Jam Perth. It is Decem­ber, Lachlan?

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