What does freedom mean to you? Contribute your vision of freedom to our digital photo exhibition which will be displayed at Webstock this year. This exhibition is open to anyone.
For you intelligent and beautiful people who are actually attending Webstock, you will also have a chance to win a Nintendo Wii! Yes, we will be giving away a Wii to the best image by a Webstock attendee.
Join the Flickr group and start submitting images!
The rules are simple:
Contribute as many as you like
The images should mean “freedom” to you
JPG format please
At least 1280 x 800ish (they will be displayed on a big monitor, so the bigger the better, really).
Keep it clean (so we can show the kids 😉
The fine print:
The Nintendo Wii will be given to a Webstock attendee only. The award will be decided by a yet-to-be chosen judge and his/her decision will be final.
The Nintendo Wii will be demo’d in an exhibition area of the conference prior to be given away as a prize.
Webstock committee members are not eligible for the Nintendo Wii (with great regret as we really want one).
The rules are simple. Three speakers onstage, one after the other. Each has to speak to a Powerpoint presentation. Each presentation has 12 slides. Each slide is onscreen for 15 seconds. What could be simpler?
Oh, there’s a catch. None of them has seen the presentation before. They’ll each be ad-libbing. Onstage. In front of the Webstock audience and in front of a panel of tough judges.
Yes, this is Powerpoint Karaoke Idol!
Michael Lopp vs Nat Torkington vs Damian Conway. Live onstage. Thursday 14 February at Webstock. Full details here.
Webstock is about improving websites and also knowledge-sharing and good web citizenship.
Until we win Lotto we can’t make the Conference free for everyone. But thanks to the help of InternetNZ, and all of you who paid for a ticket, we’re thrilled to be able to provide some scholarships to help 9 people to attend. Two are from Samoa, and the others from various parts of New Zealand.
We reckon the the scholarship winners have a lot to contribute to Webstock.
Over the next few weeks we aim to profile some of the scholarship winners on the blog here, starting with Nynette Sass.
oversees E-booking system and data collection plus being the official, “unofficial” photographer etc.
a mad game fisherwoman, enjoys the occasional game of golf, time permitting, especially the 19th hole, sailing, hashing… not the smoking type,
is artistic and enjoys playing around in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, time permitting
competitive in both sports and business
and has an infectious sense of humour.
Nynette says:
I spend most of my working time on the computer and on the Net that it only makes sense to learn more about how I can utilise this media to better help our organisation and furthermore, to share the knowledge with potential converts to improve their business opportunities thru wider exposure etc.
Also check out the following blogs which I am also involved with:
We’re pleased to announce that the final night’s dinner and entertainment at Webstock will be presented in association with Google. You already know that there’ll be great food, lots to drink, scintillating company and stupendous entertainment. Well there’s now more.
Google’s Chris DiBona will be bringing over three Chumbies to give away as door prizes. Chumbies are very cool, very hard to obtain and, most important, if you’re one of the lucky people to win, it will mean you can taunt Russell Brown that you have a later model Chumby than he does!
You do, of course, need to be at the dinner to be in the draw to win. Oh, and if there’s a special person you’d like to bring along to the dinner and entertainment, you can buy extra tickets for only $85. Just send us an email at [email protected] for more details.
We’re delighted to announce the speakers and topics for the 8×5 sessions at Webstock. One of the highlights from the last Webstock, this session has 8 people talking for 5 minutes each on a wide range of topics. We think you’ll enjoy it!
