I got my ticket, I got my ticket, I got my ticket, yippee!

Guess who’s going to Web Direc­tions? :D

Early bird pric­ing ends on Fri­day, the 30th of July. After that it’s an extra $100 until the end of August, and an extra $200 after that. So it’s well worth get­ting in before Fri­day. Coin­ci­den­tally, if you pur­chase by Fri­day you can claim it in this year’s tax.

One of the best parts of a con­fer­ence like this is the feel­ing of com­mu­nity with all your fel­low web geeks. It looks like there might be an even big­ger Perth turnout this year which, given our iso­la­tion from the rest of the coun­try, adds an extra dimen­sion of cama­raderie. The Perth crew who went to Web Essen­tials last year came back with so many great sto­ries that we bored the pants off every­one at Port80 meet­ings for months after­wards — every other sen­tence went “well, we went into this night­club with Eric Meyer and…” or “…and then I said to Molly that…”. I’m look­ing for­ward to the same again this year!

I’m also look­ing for­ward to catch­ing up with all the peo­ple I met last year. After fol­low­ing your blogs and Flickr streams, I feel like I know many of you, in some odd cat­e­gory of acquain­t­ence that I’ll just call “web stan­dards buddies”.

So, who’s in?