http://simonwillison.net/2011-10-31T13:53:00+00:00Simon Willison2011-10-31T13:53:00+00:002011-10-31T13:53:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2011/Oct/31/are-there-any-large/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-large-tech-conferences-events-in-Australia/answer/Simon-Willison">Are there any large tech conferences/events in Australia?</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>Web Directions South is a big Australian web event - you've just missed it though, it was a couple of weeks ago: <span><a href="http://south11.webdirections.org/">http://south11.webdirections.org/</a></span> ( <span><a href="http://lanyrd.com/2011/web-directions-south/">http://lanyrd.com/2011/web-direc...</a></span> on Lanyrd). It's along the lines you describe, although tends to be more developer-focused than business-focused.</p> <p>We have a list of upcoming conferences in Australia here, most of which are technology related - you might find something interesting in there: <span><a href="http://lanyrd.com/places/australia/">http://lanyrd.com/places/australia/</a></span></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/australia">australia</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/conferences">conferences</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/networking">networking</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/startups">startups</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sydney">sydney</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/meetups">meetups</a></p>

2010-09-27T18:43:00+00:002010-09-27T18:43:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Sep/27/what-is-the-best/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-conference-for-Web-Designers-in-Australia-to-Attend/answer/Simon-Willison">What is the best conference for Web Designers in Australia to Attend?</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>I've not been, but I've always heard great things about Web Directions South. I attended/spoke-at @media in London run by the same team this year and it was excellent.</p> <p>We have a small list of Australian web development conferences here: <span><a href="http://lanyrd.com/topics/web-development/in/23424748/">http://lanyrd.com/topics/web-dev...</a></span> - would love to add more if you know of them.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/australia">australia</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/conferences">conferences</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a></p>

2009-12-15T15:36:20+00:002009-12-15T15:36:20+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Dec/15/australia/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.mnot.net/blog/2009/12/16/http_au">HTTP + Politics = ?</a></strong></p> Mark Nottingham ponders the technical implications of Australia’s decision to apply a filter to all internet traffic. Australia is large enough (and far enough away from the northern hemisphere) that the speed of light is a performance issue, but filtering technologies play extremely poorly with optimisation technologies such as HTTP pipelining and Google’s SPDY proposal. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/australia">australia</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/filtering">filtering</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/http">http</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mark-nottingham">mark-nottingham</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/performance">performance</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pipelining">pipelining</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/politics">politics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/spdy">spdy</a></p>