It’s going to be a good year for con­fer­ences down under!

Next week I’m off to Syd­ney for WebDU. I’m going to be cov­er­ing the event for Site­Point and Fusion Author­ity, and I can’t wait – my first post on WebDU at Site­Point is up already. Although I’ve been to three of Daemon’s con­fer­ences I didn’t go the last two years, so I’m really look­ing for­ward to catch­ing up on the Cold­Fu­sion com­mu­nity peeps that I haven’t seen for ages, as well as meet a lot of new people.

Then in Sep­tem­ber, it’s off to Syd­ney again for Web Direc­tions South. This year, I’ll be speak­ing, on start­ing a web devel­op­ment busi­ness — my biggest speak­ing engage­ment thus far. Again, much antic­i­pa­tion, and more than just a bit of appre­hen­sion. A big thank you to Bryan who sug­gested that I might have a thing or two to share on the topic. Bryan kicks my arse at Scrab­u­lous, consistently.

Web Direc­tions South is great, not only for catch­ing up with the peo­ple I met dur­ing the last three WE/WDS’s, but also because the Perth Port80 Posse always runs amok and what could be more fun than that? If you’d like to reg­is­ter and get $50 off, you can use the code WDS08-KS.

Fast for­ward to Novem­ber, and this time I don’t need to get on any planes because Perth is host­ing the inau­gural Edge of the Web con­fer­ence, brought to the unsus­pect­ing peo­ple of West­ern Aus­tralia by AWIA (and of course, I am involved). We have a huge speaker list that will be announced soon. The awards pre­sen­ta­tion night for the WA Web Awards is being held as part of EOTW and so that’s even more rea­son to get excited. Hmmm, bet­ter start get­ting our sites pol­ished up for entry…