[committee] Registrations are open for OSDC 2006

[jarich at perltraining.com.au]

Dear UCC list owner,

I would appreciate it if you could forward this message on to your group's
members.  We would be delighted to have you join us at our conference this
year and I hope that you will find the programme of interest.

I expect to have a few further updates to go out between now and the
conference advertising the keynote speakers and providing more information
regarding the tutorials.  If you or your group does not wish to receive
these emails, please let me know.

All the best,

      Jacinta

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Registrations are open for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2006:
http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html Book before 31st October to
save $50 and get a free conference t-shirt!

The Open Source Developers' Conference is an Australian conference covering
talks about software development for open source languages and projects;
regardless of operating system. The technical program is running from 6th -
8th December 2006 and will be held in Melbourne, Victoria (at Monash
University's Caulfield Campus). We are planning to 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.

Talks this year include:

    - "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

    - "Obfuscation, Golfing and Secret Operators in Perl" by José Castro,
      Team Leader at log

    - "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 others. On the 5th of December we are running a
number of short tutorials. These cover Cascading Style Sheets, Open Source
Python GIS Hacks, Testing Web Applications with Perl, a Drupal Tutorial, an
Introduction to Perl Template Toolkit and Building Large Scale Web Apps.
For more information please visit:
http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/tutorials.html

We look forward to sharing this great conference with you.

	Jacinta Richardson
	OSDC Publicity Officer