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."
Hi
greenmonkey on 2006-11-14T16:08:28
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.
