Linux Down Under: OSDC Opens for Open Source Languages

Grass Roots Conference Designed by Developers for Developers, Covering Open Source Languages

Nov. 2, 2005 10:30 AM

Registrations for Australia's second Open Source Developers' Conference are now open. OSDC is a grass roots, YAPC-style conference designed by developers for developers, covering open source languages, tools, libraries, operating systems, licenses and business models. 60 different talks are slated to be held over the course of the conference.

The conference is running from Monday 5th - Wednesday 7th December 2005.

Developers who register before Sunday 30th October will receive a conference t-shirt and a $50 discount. Registrations can be done online at the osdc.com website.

Talks topics range from the safety of Perl's Safe.pm, to rapid game development in Python, to using PHP for unorthodox applications, to utilizing Java's Groovy in applications. There will also be talks on conference skills, database integration, digital forensics, Gumstix and Nagios.

Keynote speakers booked for the event include Damian Conway, Jonathan Oxer, Richard Farnsworth (from the Australian Synchrotron) and Anthony Baxter.

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SYS-CON UK News Desk wrote: Linux Down Under: OSDC Opens for Open Source Languages. Registrations for Australia's second Open Source Developers' Conference are now open. OSDC is a grass roots, YAPC-style conference designed by developers for developers, covering open source languages, tools, libraries, operating systems, licenses and business models. 60 different talks are slated to be held over the course of the conference. The conference is running from Monday 5th - Wednesday 7th December 2005.

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