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OSDC 5th - 8th December - Melbourne, Australia

posted by davorg on 2006.11.10 6:29   

jarich writes "You are invited to attend the Open Source Developers' Conference 2006. This is an Australian conference covering talks about software development for open source languages and projects; regardless of operating system. It features keynotes from Damian Conway and Randal Schwartz, tutorials from Randal and talks from José Castro, Adam Kennedy, Paul Fenwick and other Perlmonks.

• 5th December 2007 Day of tutorials
• 6th — 8th December 2007 Technical Programme

The conference location is Monash University Caulfield Campus, Melbourne.

Each day will have 3 streams of talks over the three days with combined keynotes at the start and end of each day. Morning and afternoon teas, and lunch will be provided. A conference dinner will be held on the night of the 6th.

For more information on what each tutorial covers please visit: http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/tutorials.html

The technical program includes:

• "Obfuscation, Golfing and Secret Operators in Perl" by José Castro, Team Leader at log
• "Mono — Migrating from Windows to Linux" by Dr. Trent Mifsud, Lecturer for the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
• "Data Warehousing HOWTO" by Evan Leybourn, Director of Looking Glass Solutions
• "J2EE and Open Source Innovation: The Relationship between Open Source and Standards" by Keith Pitty, Senior Consultant at Cirrus Technologies Pty Ltd
• "Enterprise PHP" by Thorsten Rinne, Software Developer at Mayflower GmbH / ThinkPHP
• "A Rails/Django Comparison" by Alan Green, Cirrus Technologies and Ben Askins, Sterland Computing

For a full list please visit: http://osdc2006.cgpublisher.com/session_descriptions.html

Conference keynote presentors include Damian Conway, Randal L. Schwartz, Richard Farnsworth and Anthony Baxter.

We look forward to sharing this great conference with you."

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• Hi

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  by greenmonkey (7424) on 2006.11.14 11:08 (#51628)

  Hi there. This looks to be a great convention! The keynote speakers are impressive. Although I recognize just a few names. I am a newbie to PERL and I would love to learn more. Can newbies like me be able to attend? Thanks.

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