When Flowers Start To Bloom, It’s A Sign That SmashingConf Oxford Is Coming Soon!

When Flowers Start To Bloom, It’s A Sign That SmashingConf Oxford Is Coming Soon!

• By Vitaly Friedman


• October 28th, 2014


• Smashing Events


• 1 Comment

Crafting a good front-end is no square of cake. When tough budgets and desirous goals interweave, we need only a right imagination to make only a right decisions. That’s because we emanate heavily unsentimental Smashing Conferences, and a arriving SmashingConf Oxford 2015³¹ isn’t going to be an exception.

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Yes, we’re entrance behind to a UK: SmashingConf Oxford 2015³¹ will be as unsentimental as usual, holding place in Mar 16–18th. Get your ticket.⁴

About The Conference

We don’t caring about flighty trends, though we do caring about things that work and don’t work in genuine projects, and why, and that’s accurately what a eventuality will be focusing on. With unsentimental talks, lots of networking, jam sessions, a personal, insinuate atmosphere and fantastic surprises (lasers⁵, anyone?), this is a discussion we substantially won’t wish to miss. A valuable, affordable village eventuality for designers and developers who love their craft. Seriously.

No fluff, no basics, though real actionable insights that we can ask to your work right away. First speakers are already announced⁶, including Jake Archibald, Zoe M. Gillenwater, Tom Giannattasio, Natalie Yadrentseva, Richard Rutter, Paul Lewis and Peter Bilak. And we’ve got a few hands-on Front-End + RWD workshops⁷ as well, we know.

First Confirmed Speakers

We entirely curate any singular pronounce and work alongside a speakers to make certain that any display fits easily within a altogether thesis of a conference. For a Oxford conference, we’re really happy to acquire a initial reliable speakers:

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• Jake Archibald
  (Front-End, Google)


• Zoe M. Gillenwater (+ workshop)
  (Front-end, Flexbox)


• Tom Giannattasio
  (Front-End, Macaw)


• Natalie Yadrentseva
  (UX, Data Visualization)


• Seb Lee-Delisle (+ workshop)
  (Creative JavaScript)


• Richard Rutter
  (Web typography, Fontdeck)


• Meagan Fisher
  (Front-End, Visual Design)


• Paul Lewis
  (Rendering Performance, Google)


• Lorna Mitchell
  (PHP, Open Source Evangelist)


• Peter Bilak
  (Typography)


• Rachel Simpson
  (UX, Google)


• Yoav Weiss (+ workshop)
  (Responsive Images Group)


• Polle de Maagt
  (Creative UX, KLM)


• Christopher Murphy (+ workshop)
  (Designer, Educator)


• Bruce Lawson
  (Opera, Standards)


• Mystery Speaker
  (Someone we definitely know.)


• …more speakers will be announced soon!

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To keep a tradition of holding conferences during singular places, we did not select poetic Oxford randomly. The venue for a SmashingConf Oxford is a extraordinary Oxford Town Hall, only like final year. (Image credits11)]]>

Seven Valuable, Hands-On Workshops

Conference talks are one thing, though a full-day hands-on seminar another. Why not supplement a unsentimental seminar on tip of your discussion knowledge and come behind to your bureau with a bag full of useful findings, learnings and maybe even skills? Well, that’s what a workshops are all about! And we’ve got a few pretty, flattering good ones prepared for you:

• “Leveling Up With Flexbox”¹²
  with Zoe M. Gillenwater


• “Make a Slow Responsive Website Fast!”¹³
  with Guy Podjarny


• “JavaScript Graphics and Animation”¹⁴
  with Seb Lee-Delisle


• “Building On Creativity”¹⁵
  with Christopher Murphy


• “Responsive Images”¹⁶
  with Yoav Weiss


• “Responsive Web Design: Front-End + UX/Design Patterns”¹⁷
  with Vitaly Friedman


• “Responsive UX”¹⁸
  with Marko Dugonjić

Fair Pricing: £289 / €349 For Two Full Days

We wish to make certain that a discussion is affordable for everyone, and this is reflected in a pricing for a event. The unchanging cost is £289 (€349) for dual full days (incl. UK VAT 20% and all engagement fees), though if we are quick, we can snap one of a 50 early-bird tickets²⁰.

Besides, if we get a seminar ticket, too²¹, we save £100 off a discussion + seminar price. Student discounts (25% off) are accessible on ask as well. Quite smashing, isn’t it? We suspicion so!

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Beautiful SmashingConf sketchnotes by Elisabeth Irgens.
She'll be fasten us in Oxford as well. (Image credits23)]]>

Location And Hotels

Of march we didn’t select Oxford randomly. It’s maybe a quintessential English city: a beautiful obstruction of circuitous streets, ancient college buildings, individualist traditions and some really excellent hostelries. Every in. of a city centre is packaged with history, and no track we select will disappoint. Made famous by a world-class university, Oxford is only smashing for scrutiny and inspiration. And open areas by a issuing Isis river, ponies extending and some of a best sunsets out there are within walking distance. It’s very, really poetic in Oxford.

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Come and learn among a forgetful spires of Oxford! (Image credits²⁵)

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One of a ancestral seminar bedrooms in a City Hall of Oxford. (Image credits²⁷)

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The perspective of a theatre in a categorical hall. (Image credits²⁹)

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Yummy Smashing Cat cupcakes! (Image credits³¹)

Just like final year, we’ll set adult an open-stage eventuality a day before a conference, so we can publicly pronounce about your possess practice and plead what worked and hasn’t worked for you. We’ll also put a list of all attendees on a website, so you’ll know previously who is entrance and maybe even classify a outing to Oxford together.

Sponsors, Dear Sponsors

We flow a heart and essence into formulating a friendly, noted and moving village eventuality for everybody involved. Our idea is a profitable village eventuality with unsentimental talks, orderly packaged with lots of learning, pity and networking opportunities.

We keep sheet prices affordable for everyone, and we’re happy to acquire sponsors to assistance us make a discussion smashing in any probable way. If you’re meddlesome in sponsoring a event, greatfully dump us an email during cat@smashingconf.com³².

Questions?

So here we go! More speakers will be announced soon, and given it’s a Smashing conference, we should design a few surprises, though we’re not going to exhibit them only yet. If we have any questions, send us an email during hello@smashingconf.com — we’d adore to support we in any probable approach and would be shamed and happy to acquire we to Oxford in March!

Ah, and make certain to move an powerful with you, of course. But that goes but saying, doesn’t it? Cheers!

Footnotes

1. 1 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/


2. 2 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/


3. 3 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/


4. 4 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/registration


5. 5 https://vimeo.com/89624072


6. 6 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/speakers


7. 7 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/workshops


8. 8 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/registration


9. 9 http://www.smashingconf.com/oxford-2015


10. 10 http://www.smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/


11. 11 https://www.flickr.com/photos/deebeejay/13295503754/in/photostream/


12. 12 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/workshops/zoe-mickley-gillenwater


13. 13 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/workshops/guy-pordjany


14. 14 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/workshops/seb-lee-delisle


15. 15 https://shop.smashingmagazine.com/smashingconf-oxford-workshop-idea-factories.html


16. 16 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/workshops/yoav-weiss


17. 17 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/workshops/vitaly-friedman


18. 18 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/workshops/marko-dugonjic


19. 19 http://smashingconf.com/oxford-2015/registration


20. 20 https://shop.smashingmagazine.com/smashing-conference-oxford-2015-eb.html


21. 21 https://shop.smashingmagazine.com/smashing-conference-workshop-ticket-oxford-2015.html


22. 22 http://elisabethirgens.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2014oxford-16-tyler.jpg


23. 23 http://elisabethirgens.com/2014/smashingoxford/


24. 24 http://gridtips.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/042a9_oxfrod-cupola.jpg


25. 25 https://www.flickr.com/photos/simononly/7988394843/


26. 26 http://gridtips.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/2b4e1_Smashingconf-Oxford-workshop-room.jpg


27. 27 https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcthiele/13217092874/


28. 28 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/scott-kellum-stage-opt.jpg


29. 29 https://www.flickr.com/photos/deebeejay/13295150495/


30. 30 http://gridtips.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/314b5_Smashingconf-Oxford-muffins.jpg


31. 31 https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcthiele/13264531553/


32. 32 cat@smashingconf.com

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