Gels Saby Demoing at DemoCamp Victoria
While at An Event Apart SF, I went to look up something on the Victoria Better Web Posse’s site, and was saddened to find that it’s offline, “Address Not Found”. I’ve emailed Gels Saby hoping to find out the status, but haven’t heard back from her yet.
Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn on the Victoria Linux User Group (VLUG) wrote
As I understand it from someone who was a member of Web Posse, it has folded. OTOH, WEAV amalgamated with Big Blue & Cousins about a year and a half ago. Currently, a former WEAV member is running a Web Tools Special Interest Group monthly.
If this is the case, this is a big bummer. I found the Better Web Posse to have a refreshing design focus lacking from WEAV before it and Big Blue & Cousins still today. The Better Web Posse brought together many talented designers, developers and other workers of the web.
It seemed like Gels and a few other people did a lot of work to bring the posse together. Thank you!
Hi Lloyd – my apologies to the web community for the inconspicuous take off. Indeed, the group formally known as the Web Posse is disbanded – I’ve actually moved from Victoria back to Nanaimo and taken a bit of a mental break from the web. Here’s the ‘official’ send off I wrote our contributors in case anyone missed it:
“Rather than attempt a graceful exit, metaphor, or euphemism (and coinciding with the prophecy of an acquaintance), two years seemed to be the golden age for my youthful optimism of web nerdery. Not to mention, it’s probably a good place to end on with the series of lectures we had at the end of 2007.
On that note, there are lots of people doing cool things if you’re still interested in getting together: The Renegades for one, DemoCamp, and a new Posse in Comox Valley (Jamie McCue). And if there’s one thing you want to do before you die as a web professional, you absolutely have to go to SXSW in Austin Texas. That’s *all I’m sayin*.”
The blog is actually posted offline for now because I was debating my hosting options during mental break period…and I highly encourage the great community in Victoria to keep on possy-in’! Thank you so much to everyone for everything, and all the best in the future. Perhaps we’ll bump elbows again soon
Regards,
Gels Saby