[committee] Open Source Developers' Conference 2006 - Call for papers

[Jacinta Richardson]

Dear WA Linux User Group contact,

The Open Source Developers' Conference has run twice now, once in 2004 and once
in 2005.  It has been extremely successful in bringing members of the open
source community together and also in engendering an appreciation of open source
 amongst those who have not been so involved.  However there has been one
draw-back; by and large it's attendance has been restricted to those who live in
Melbourne.  I realise that it's very expensive to get around this large country
of ours but I want to make sure that you are, at least, invited.  It's on the
cards to make OSDC a travelling conference like Linux Conf, so hopefully
sometime soon you won't have to travel so far.  If you feel it would be
suitable, I would appreciate you passing this message on to your user group.

All the best,

      Jacinta


PS. If you and your group would rather not receive any additional publicity
about this event (there'll probably be another 3-4 emails in total between now
and December) please let me know.

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       http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/cfp06.html

The Open Source Developers' Conference is an Australian conference
designed for developers, by developers. It covers numerous programming
languages across a range of operating systems.  We're seeking papers on
Open Source languages, technologies, projects and tools as well as topics
of interest to Open Source developers.

The conference will be held in Melbourne, Victoria (Monash University's
Caulfield Campus) from the 6th to the 8th of December, 2006.

Last year's conference had about 160 people and around 60 presentations on
a range of topics - see http://osdc2005.cgpublisher.com/proposals/ for a
list.  This list might also be useful if you're looking for ideas on what
sort of thing would be appropriate.

If you have any questions, or have never submitted a paper proposal
before, please read our FAQ page at http://www.osdc.com.au/faq/index.html
If you don't find an answer there, please contact richard at osdc.com.au

To submit a proposal, follow the instructions at
http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/cfp06.html

This year we're also going to run a day of tutorials. See the CFP
for more information.

The deadline for proposals is 12th July 2006.

Hope to see you there!

        The OSDC 2006 committee.