On Thursday 19th October at 7pm, the second London based meeting for the Web Standards Group will take place at the Westminster University campus near Goodge Street station.
The goal of these Web Standards Group events is to promote web-standards in such a way that attendees will go away having learnt something, or be inspired to create something great using web standards, whether they are seasoned standardistas or just starting out.
This month we have three speakers that rank among the leading lights in the field of Microformats. At the event you be guided through what microformats are, why they are important and how you can implement them in your own projects
The event will start at 7.00pm but we would suggest you attempt to arrive at the venue at 6.30pm so that you have plenty of time to find the lecture theatre and get a seat before the event starts.
This event is free, all that we ask is that you sign up to indicate that you will be attending on Upcoming.org
Jeremy is a regular speaker at major design conferences. Most recently he spoke on JavaScript & DOM Scripting at @media in London, and presented with Andy at SxSW Interactive in Austin, Texas.
Jeremy runs Clearleft's training courses in JavaScript and Ajax.
Jeremy is a member of the Web Standards Project where he was recently elected to serve as joint leader of the DOM Scripting Task Force. The DOM Scripting Task Force was created to evangelise the adoption of unobtrusive JavaScript; a way of thinking based on modern, standards-compliant, accessible web development best practices.
Jeremy is author of the book DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model in which he explains how to make exciting, functional enhancements to web pages using JavaScript while maintaining backwards compatibility and accessibility.
A more personal side of Jeremy can be found at Adactio, a popular weblog where he writes about web design and web standards issues. When he's not building websites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the alt.country band Salter Cane. He is also the creator and curator of one of the Web's largest online communities dedicated to Irish traditional music, The Session.
Mark Norman Francis is a Londoner, born and bred. He spent many years doing various IT jobs for City University, including working on the support desk and systems administration. After tiring of the relaxed environment and long holidays, he entered the real world.
In 2000 he joined Purple Interactive, a commercial web company with clients such as Barclays, IBM and Honda. One site produced there was an unofficial F1 site, later acquired by Formula One Management. After leaving the world of motorsport, he joined Yahoo! in June 2004, where he is now the Lead developer for Entertainment. He blogs at http://cackhanded.net/.
Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now works as a Web Developer for Yahoo! Europe in London, UK. Prior to this, Drew primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Caburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.
Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and is currently Strategy Lead for the Web Standards Project. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Macromedia, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He blogs here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24ways.
Below is a map showing the location of the New Cavendish Street campus. The nearest tube station is Goodge Street.
There will be a gathering of geeks at the Bricklayers Arms in Gresse Street after the event.
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Stay tuned to my blog for the next event to be announced
I am currently looking for speakers for future WSG events. If you are interested please get in touch via the contact form
There's no need to be a member of the the WSG to attend this meetup, but if you'd like to, you can join the Web Standards Group for free from the WSG Website