[ABQ-pm] (Fwd) [pm_groups] OSDC Israel 2007, Call for Participation
Joe Calkins
jcalkins at swcp.com
Mon Jul 17 14:06:10 PDT 2006
I'd never considered forwarding the announcements of overseas conferences, but
Gabor specifically requested it. Please let me know if you find this useful, so
I know to forward others, and you may soon see announcements for conferences in
places like China, Brussels and Argentina.
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Joe Calkins
jcalkins at swcp.com
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Date sent: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:21:04 +0200
From: "Gabor Szabo" <szabgab at gmail.com>
In February this year there were already several paticipants coming
from overseas. I hope on the next conference we can have a massive
presence of overseas Perl Mongers.
I'd appreciate if you could distribute our Call for Participation to
your local mailing lists.
thanks
Gabor
Call for Participation
Please mark your calendars! The organizers of OSDC::Israel are glad to
announce that the next conference will be held on 20-22 February 2007.
There will be additional events such as tutorials and a Perl 6 hackathon
near the main conference; the exact schedule will be announced in the
next month or so.
OSDC::Israel is an international conference for Open Source Developers,
running now in its second year in this form and as Yet Another Perl
Conference (YAPC) for the three years prior to that. The conference has
attracted renowned speakers worldwide, such as Mark-Jason Dominus,
Audrey Tang and Larry Wall.
This year's conference is held in participation with ICSEM '07, the
Israeli Conference of Software Engineering and Management.
Our venue is the Netanya Academic College, which has already graciously
hosted us last year.
We would like to invite speakers, volunteers, attendees and sponsors.
Guests
We already have two guests:
* Audrey Tang, of Perl fame, lead developer of Pugs
* Zeev Suraski, the CTO of Zend, maker of PHP
Speakers
A detailed Call for Papers can be found on the conference web site
(<http://www.osdc.org.il/2007/call_for_papers.html>). If you believe you
have something interesting to say about software development,
deployment, or management, especially in the Open Source context, we
would like to hear from you. Past topics included (but were not limited
to):
* Code techniques (Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby)
* Powerful tools for any of the above
* Interaction between technologies in Open Source
* Software testing
* Management techniques
* How to make money from writing Open Source software
* Future plans from language designers
Main track talks will be 20, 45, or 90 minutes in length; in addition,
there will be a lightning talk session intended for less experienced
speakers or for those with small or humorous topics.
Volunteers
OSDC is a very low cost conference in the spirit of open participation
and community sharing. One way of giving back to the community is to
offer your time for any of these:
* Design the web site of the conference - <http://osdc.org.il>
* Designing, printing, and distributing conference posters/flyers
* Administrative help with billing
* Production help (our interface to food, A/V, and other providers)
* Assemble conference material
* Docmaster (edit and produce conference proceedings)
Any help you can give in one or more of these categories will be well
appreciated!
Attendees
We are seeing a growing number of conference-goers, both from Israel and
international guests. OSDC is growing nicely and we are happy for it! If
you have any questions about arranging a visit to Israel please contact
the organizers (see below). Tell and bring your friends!
Sponsors
OSDC is a gathering of highly skilled technological people. If you have
benefited from the effort of Open Source people in the past, please
consider sponsoring the event. We are not a commercial conference but
your support will be acknowledged fairly.
There is an option of a job fair this year; contact the organizers if
your company is interested in participating.
Communication: Mailing lists, wiki
In order to ease communication the conference has two mailing lists:
* Announcement list: <http://osdc.org.il/mailman/listinfo/osdc-news>
* Discussion list: <http://osdc.org.il/mailman/listinfo/osdc-discuss>
If you have not done so yet, please subscribe at least to the
announcement list in order not to miss any important news.
In addition we have a wiki: <http://wiki.osdc.org.il/>.
The main conference web site: <http://www.osdc.org.il>.
Organizers
Please direct all queries to organizers at osdc.org.il.
--
Gabor Szabo
Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il
08-975-2897 054-4624648
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