Webstock
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Webstock is a biennial web technology conference held in Wellington, New Zealand.
It features a range of web speakers covering a variety of web-related topics such as accessibility, usability, ethnographic design, progressive development and other best practices and methodologies.
Webstock was created by a small non-profit group who state their 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"[citation needed]. The group 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.
The second Webstock ran from 10–15 February, 2008, with speakers including Shawn Henry (W3C), Simon Willison (Django), Scott Berkun, Amy Hoy, Peter Morville, Nat Torkington, Dan Cederholm, Kelly Goto, Michael Lopp, Jill Whalen, Russell Brown, Jason Santa Maria, Rachel McAlpine, Sam Morgan (Trade Me), Tom Coates (Yahoo!), Liz Danzico, Damian Conway (Perl), Luke Wroblewski and Kathy Sierra.
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In between the major conferences, the group runs one day and evening events a few times a year, featuring both New Zealand and other speakers.
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