Simon Taylor writes "Last year the Melbourne Perl Mongers group set forth to hold Australia's first ever YAPC. However we then changed it to be Australia's first Open Source Developers' Conference, covering Perl, Python, PHP and many Open Source tools. This conference was a huge success, drawing 45 speakers for 60 talks. Dr. Damian Conway and Nathan Torkington provided high quality keynotes alongside Australian Open Source advocate Con Zymaris, Python release manager Anthony Baxter, and PHP and MySQL author Luke Welling. Other prominent speakers include Abigail, Baden Hughes and Nigel McFarlane. This year's conference promises to be even better and is running in Melbourne from the 5th - 7th December 2005. Talk proposals are due 19th August."
