Web on the Piste

Web on the Piste was a conference a few years back covering some of, at that time anyway, the cutting edge interesting computer applications and how they interacted with each other. This was usually held over two days in New Zealand. There were a number of different speakers and a number of different topics, all computer and tech related. The focus of the conference is rich internet applications, usability and how to best get Microsoft and Adobe to work well together.

As far as can be determined or researched on this conference there have so far only been two. One was held in 2007, one in 2008. Very little information can be easily found about these conferences, references to them on the net are very limited. What little is known is the subjects that were going to be discussed but nothing afterwards seems to have posted about the conference, what conclusions were made from the discussions or where the participants thought the discussed topics were going in the near future.

There was found a single blog post found after a half hour of searching that discusses some of what was discussed at the 2007 conference. While this blog post does give some insight as to what was discussed there and who was present, it was more of a posting of the bloggers experience at the conference more than any real factual information. Note that unless a person is conversant in the terminologies of the topics, little can be gleaned from what is said in the blog.

From another brief post found on the internet we can learn what was to be discussed in the 2008 web on the Piste conference. They were again to discuss rich internet applications. The topics included WPF, Air, Silverlight, Flash, .Net, ColdFusion and AJAX. Also on the agenda there was to be a discussion on open source communities. This is again a veritable internet mystery as considering internet applications were being discussed at a conference being held over two days it appears as if not one person associated with the conference posted anything about it anywhere on the net.

Another half hour search found yet another small obscure blog reference to web on the Piste which sited that there would not be a web on the Piste 2009 as the coordinators did not believe they gain enough participants to make it worthwhile to hold. An internet search conducted on web on the Piste 2010 and 2011 come up with no references whatsoever.

The subjects that were being discussed were all about creating better applications for using video and video content on the internet. What could be done with it, could it be connected to an integrated system, could it be used in a geocoding context and to what degree could these technologies and applications be streamlined to be made more efficient? While these application and technologies have been developing and advancing over the past few years they have been doing so without the web on the Piste conferences.