The South by Southwest Interactive conference is gearing up. It’s one of the biggest events of the year for anyone working in interactive media, including this little thing we call the Web.

Mozilla will be there, at sessions and events, so if you’re going, please look for us. Also, check out Tantek’s 2011 SXSW Packing and Check List and SXSW 101 and Additional Tips.

Sessions

Here are some of the sessions where Mozillians will present or participate in panels:

• Friday, 2 p.m., How not to design like a developer, Chrissie Brodigan (Mozilla.com engagement lead)
• Saturday, 11 a.m., Drawing back the curtains on CSS implementation, Elika Etamad (Mozilla contributor), David Baron (platform developer), with Molly Holzschlag, Sylvain Galineau, and Tab Atkins
• Monday, 11 a.m., Big data and APIs for PHP developers, Laura Thomson (webtools engineering manager), with Bradley Holt, David Zuelke, Dennis Yang, Eli White, and Julie Steele
• Monday, 3:30 p.m., The future of microformats, Tantek Çelik (standards consultant), with Ben Ward, Frances Berriman, and Paul Tarjan
• Monday, 3:30 p.m., Mozilla School of Webcraft @ P2PU, John Britton (education hacker)
• Tuesday, 5 p.m., Voices from the HTML5 trenches: Browser wars IV, Brendan Eich (CTO), with Arun Ranganathan, Alex Russell, John Hvratin, and Lars Eric Bolstad.

Events

Mozilla is not throwing our own party this year, but we are co-sponsoring the Austin JavaScript party on Sunday, 4 to 8 p.m. at Kung Fu Saloon, 510 Rio Grande Street. If you don’t have a SXSWi badge, you can get in by donating two cans of food for the Capital Area Food Bank. You’ll want to come out to this party, because we’re giving away a Motorola Xoom tablet as a door prize!

Besides that, Mozilla is going mobile! The Firefox for Mobile team will be cruising around each night, and passing out some sweet treats for folks. Follow @mozmobile on Twitter to find them.

Throughout the conference, Jay Patel and I will be wandering around showing demos of open web technologies from Web O’ Wonder and Mozilla Demo Studio. Follow @mozhacks or #mdnsxsw to find us, and maybe pick up some Mozilla Developer Network swag.