What is Web Directions North?
Put together by designers and developers, for designer and developers, this conference is brought to you by Dave Shea, Derek Featherstone, Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp. Over two days and nights, Web Directions North is packed tight with sessions by renowned, inspiring, entertaining speakers and experts, parties, and more.Come along and hear Kelly Goto, Andy Clarke, Adrian Holovaty, Douglas Bowman, Dan Cederholm, Joe Clark, Molly Holzschlag, Derek Featherstone, Veerle Pieters, Jeremy Keith and all the other present and future web luminaries, who’ll be covering covering Ajax and Javascript, CSS, Microformats, mashups, standards based web design and development, accessibility, web app development, XHTML and HTML and more. Beginning with an optional day of workshops from some of the web’s best educators, and rounded off with two optional days of skiing and boarding at Whistler [that's British Columbia folks], Web Directions North is 2007’s web design and development event not to be missed.
What did I say about the Design a Snowboard contest? This contest is sponsored by Digital Web Magazine and here’s what they had to say about it:
Making the gathering even cooler, the conference is followed by two days of optional skiing & snowboarding, with speakers and fellow conference goers, at the world-class mountains of Whistler-Blackcomb, home of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Not much of a skiier/snowboarder? Whistler-Blackcomb features plenty for beginners, too.
- First Prize: A two-day full conference pass and one day at Whistler (includes luxury coach transfer to and from Vancouver/Whistler, and lift ticket). Value $USD1000.
- Runner Up Prizes (2 winners): One day of coach and lift tickets. Value $USD100 each.
To win, submit your very own snowboard design! In the grand tradition of pro snowboarders and classic boardsmiths like Burton, Lib Tech, and Sims, we invite you to put your design skills into the most radical snowboard ever! Make it geeky, make it awesome, make it classic—whatever you want, it’s your design.
Not a designer? We’ve got an option for you. Take a photo of yourself on an improvised snowboard of your own invention. Sure, it might not be snow-legal, but it could work in a pinch. The more inventive, the better! Absolutely can’t attend? Enter your design anyway – join the fun! Plus, we just might have some other prizes.
- Limit: 3 photo or design submissions per person, from a verifiable e-mail address.
- Send a 400 x 400 pixel jpg of your entry (for the photo option) or a wider jpg—even 800 pixels or wider is fine—(for the snowboard design option) as an email attachment to digweb.contest@gmail.com. If you’d like to use a template, we have some you can download.
- 2 week deadline—submission window will close end of day, 12/4/2006.
We’ll post the designs as we go along, and the winners on 12/11/2006. Good luck!
And if you didn’t comprehend everything you read up there – you must submit the final design to digiweb.contest@gmail.com by December 4th. (Yes, that’s next week!) The down-side? You’ve got to get your cute-little-self up to Vancouver, BC. (Airfare or Hotel does not seem to be included in this little prize) Hmmm. Either way, I think I’ve got a new pet project. 
(And if only I had time for my pets.)