There’s a very cool thing going on in some cities in the US that seems to be a lot like Port80 and the Web Stan­dards Group combined.

Refresh­ing Cities says that:

Refresh is a com­mu­nity of design­ers and devel­op­ers work­ing to refresh the cre­ative, tech­ni­cal, and pro­fes­sional cul­ture of New Media endeav­ors in their areas. Pro­mot­ing design, tech­nol­ogy, usabil­ity, and stan­dards.

Sounds like an admirable goal to me. Refresh Orlando are hav­ing a con­fer­ence — Refresh06 — and so far they have a pretty good speaker line up: Paul Boag, Andy Budd, Jeremy Keith and Cameron Moll, amongst others.

My con­fer­ence bud­get this year is going on Web Direc­tions, but if you’re in the U.S. of A then you might wanna check it out.