Port80 peo­ple doing what they do best: net­work­ing and com­mu­nity build­ing. You thought I was going to say drink­ing, right?

We had about 22 peo­ple turn up at the Pump­house in Dar­ling Har­bour on Wednes­day 27th Sep­tem­ber. About 10 of those were Perth peo­ple in town for Web Direc­tions 06. By a strange co-incidence, we ended up sit­ting out the front, on the right hand side of the venue (when fac­ing the venue) — the same loca­tion that we stake out for Perth Port80 meetings.

Thanks to every­one who came along — I met some great new peo­ple and some very inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tions were held, includ­ing a long one on uri­nals (I can’t explain it either). I was also for­tu­nate to meet Adam Schilling, who is not only help­ing organ­ise a Web Stan­dards Group in Ade­laide, but a Port80 get-together as well.

Hope­fully some­one will take up the chal­lenge and get Port80 Syd­ney up and run­ning per­ma­nently. There’s a whole swag of ben­e­fits for every­one involved, not least of all that it’s great fun.