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Registration and Welcome

Registration opens at 8:15am

 
20 August 2010 - 9:00am
Planning Alerts and Your Council

With Kat Szuminska

PlanningAlerts.org.au is the OpenAustralia Foundation's first foray into working with local council information from all over Australia. In this session we'll talk about how we repackage local government information in this popular free information service for the web and GPS and compass enabled phones (iphone 3gs and android).
Find out how the OpenAustralia foundation uses an open source approach to create this and other really useful websites, and how you and your planning department can benefit from it and maybe even contribute.

PlanningAlerts.org.au lets you see planning and development applications on notice near you.

19 August 2011 - 1:30pm
Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy Workshop

With Raven Calais

The Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy work shop will look at the both the policy and legal context of web accessibility standards and detail how to manage and update government websites in line with the Australian Government three phased approach of the NTS: preparation, transition and implementation. The workshop will also demonstrate how accessibility can be improved through simple steps and basic testing for the most common accessibility barriers.

19 August 2011 - 9:15am
Recordkeeping and Web 2.0

With Kate Cumming

Local Government has pioneered the use of web 2.0 technologies in the public sector. Across NSW, community engagement, consultation and information have been massively enabled by local government's innovative and enthusiastic use of web 2.0 capacities. Local government is using the web in the way it should be used - to create networks and engaged local communities.

What local government is doing with web 2.0, however, is still officially government business. It is therefore subject to the same mandatory recordkeeping rules and compliance requirements that govern all other areas of Council operations.

So how do these two world intersect? How can we marry traditional, rigid recordkeeping requirements with the dynamic and interactive web 2.0 world? What can we do to create an environment where local government can continue its active and innovative use of web 2.0, but still have all the evidence and information it needs to meet business and regulatory requirements?

In this interactive workshop we will:

* use real-world examples to examine specific business and legal requirements for recordkeeping in the web 2.0 environment, and

20 August 2010 - 9:45am
An introduction to CSS3

With Russ Weakley

Half Day workshop

CSS3 may seem like it is a long way off, especially with legacy browsers still in use. However, this course will show you how you can apply aspects of CSS3 today. You will learn about Progressive Enrichment, CSS3 transitions, a range of powerful new selectors and the future of web page layouts.

This half-day introductory workshop will provide an overview of some of the key aspects of CSS3:

  • What is CSS3?
  • The CSS3 modules
  • CSS3 selectors and browser support
  • Vendor-specific properties
  • Color: opacity and alpha
  • Backgrounds: background-size, background-image
  • Borders: border-color, border-image, border-radius
  • Boxes: gradients, box-shadow
  • Fonts: @font-face, text-shadow
  • Layouts: multiple columns, media queries
  • Transforms
  • CSS3 online code generators

There will also be some quick hands-on exercises at various times throughout the session so make sure you bring along a laptop with some sort of text editor (Notepad++, Coda, TextMate, Dreamweaver etc) and a good browser (Firefox, Safari, Opera etc).

Conference Close

Conference closes at 3:30pm followed by drinks

Submitted by Administrator on 20 July 2010 - 10:16am