Community Partners

A shout out to our friends around the web

At Web Directions we always aim to reach out to as many groups within the web design and development community, to help them reach potential new audiences and members. If you are interested in our free community partners program, simply download this 2 page outline, or contact us.

Minibar

Thinking about creating the next Last.fm, flickr, or Web 2.0 start up? You think London lacks opportunities to meet up and discuss those ideas? Then come to MiniBar.

MiniBar is a social evening in Shoreditch, which offers people a chance to snaffle some free beer while discussing p2p, web applications, start ups, social networking and general Web 2.0 mayhem & fandango.

A big thanks to Minibar, a community partner of @media.

London Web Standards

London Web Standards brings together web professionals who are working for a better web. Our monthly meetups provide them with an opportunity to teach, inspire, learn, network and debate.


Each meetup features a speaker drawn from our membership or the wider standards community. The talks cover a range of topics including HTML5, JavaScript, YQL, accessibility, web fonts, UX and front-end performance.


Come along, drink some beer (or your beverage of choice) and exchange ideas with other web developers, designers and professionals who are as passionate about the web as you are.

A big thanks to London Web Standards, a community partner of @media.

Selenium HQ

The London Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. Our focus is in testing websites using the Selenium open source tools, and topics extend through related areas of interest, such as Agile testing, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, building maintainable automated test scripts and much more.

London Ajax

We’ll meet the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 18:30 at the Skills Matter office. For the larger events they can accommodate approximately 125 guests. I’ve invited Piotr Zalewa (of MooTools and JSFiddle) to be the co-host with me (I’m Dylan Schiemann, of Dojo, SitePen, and cometD).

Each night we’ll have two 30-60 minute presentations by invited guests, and 2 or 3 5-minute lightning talks or demos. After each event, we’ll head to a local pub. Software engineers interested in learning more about Ajax should join.

HTML5 Doctor

HTML5 Doctor is a collaboration between Rich Clark, Bruce Lawson, Jack Osborne, Mike Robinson, Remy Sharp, Tom Leadbetter, and Oli Studholme. They realized there wasn’t a resource for people who wanted to learn more about the hows and whys of implementing HTML5, so decided to build one!

HTML5 Doctor will be holding an HTML clinic at the @media Expo, so if you are attending the conference, come look for them in the breaks, and get expert advice on what ails your HTML5.

HTML5 Doctor publishes articles relating to HTML5, its semantics, and how to use it right now and they invite questions via Ask the Doctor.

Get involved

HTML5 Doctor invites you to freely comment, question, congratulate, argue, and suggest in the articles’ comments sections, and we’ll do our best to answer in a considered and reasoned manner. If you have any questions relating to HTML5 and how to implement it, just ask the doctor!

A big thanks to HTML5 Doctor for their support!

PHP UK Conference

PHP London is a non-profit group to promote knowledge sharing and best practice amongst PHP developers and web development and business professionals in London. The main product right now is a regular PHP meetup – basically a monthly PHP PubCon – which is held on the first Thursday of every month. They also hold the annual PHP UK conference (in 2010 on February 26th).

Meet PHP users, developers and recruiters near you! Come to PHP London to exchange ideas and talk about code, architecture, innovation, and open source in general. Anyone interested in PHP is welcome!

A big thanks to PHP London and PHP UK Conference

MooTools London

MooTools London holds regular meetings in and around London for JavaScript developers and users of the MooTools framework.

If you’re a JavaScript or Ajax developer, come along, grab a beer and find out more about MooTools and JavaScript. It’s a great place to meet like-minded people, to find out more about upcoming MooTools releases and get help and advice on all your JavaScript questions.