From pjf at perltraining.com.au  Mon Oct 18 17:44:28 2010
From: pjf at perltraining.com.au (Paul Fenwick)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:44:28 +1100
Subject: [Canberra-pm] Open Programming Miniconf (LCA) - CFP closes THIS
	FRIDAY
Message-ID: <4CBCE9EC.1060100@perltraining.com.au>

G'day Everyone!

A friendly reminder that the CFP for the Open Programming Miniconf,
part of LCA2011 being held in Brisbane in January, is closing on
October 22.  That's this Friday!

If you're a developer working with or on Open Source development tools
or languages, and especially Perl, they'd love to hear you share your tips
and techniques.

The CFP, including details about what we're after, is available from
http://blogs.tucs.org.au/opm/cfp

Best wishes,

	Paul
	
== ABOUT THE MINICONF ==

The LCA2011 Open Programming Miniconf is the successor to the Open
Programming Languages Miniconf held at LCA2010, and continues the
tradition of bridging the gap between the low-level developer and the
end-user by bringing the topic of tools and techniques for application
development to Linux.conf.au.

OPM2011 is part of Linux.conf.au 2011, being held at the Queensland
University of Technology in Brisbane in January 2011.


From jarich at perltraining.com.au  Tue Oct 19 21:43:31 2010
From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (jarich at perltraining.com.au)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:43:31 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [Canberra-pm] 5 days remaining on OSDC early bird registrations
Message-ID: <20101020044331.E1CF511048A@teddybear.perltraining.com.au>

There are just 5 days left to take advantage of the Early Bird price when
registering for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2010.

	http://2010.osdc.com.au/register

Register on or before 24th October to save $50.

Programmers who use open source tools and languages for open source projects, or
even closed source projects; along with those use proprietary tools for open
source projects are all welcome; as is anyone who would just like to learn more
about software development and the tools and languages we're using. This is a
great conference for developers to improve their knowledge and make connections
with the Australian open source community. 

This year's keynotes include:

Ingy dot Net: C'Dent, the Acmeism and Everyone

Paul Fenwick: Why your brain doesn't work for you

Noirin Shirley: Baby Steps into Open Source - Incubation and Mentoring at Apache

Michael Schwern: How to Report a Bug

Damian Conway: Damian Conway - Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine
Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel
Timespaces...Made Easy!

along with many great talks.  Check out our programme at
http://2010.osdc.com.au/programme

From jarich at perltraining.com.au  Sun Oct 31 21:44:25 2010
From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (jarich at perltraining.com.au)
Date: Mon,  1 Nov 2010 15:44:25 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [Canberra-pm] 3 weeks until OSDC starts in Melbourne
Message-ID: <20101101044425.5F8ADA8D47@teddybear.perltraining.com.au>

With only 22 days to go until the 7th Australian Open Source Developers'
Conference, and a maximum capacity of 240, now is the time to register
to attend.

	http://2010.osdc.com.au/register

At only $300 for professional delegates and $200 for students (valid
proof of student status required upon arrival), this 3 day conference
plus one day workshop represents the best value for money for Australian
developer conferences.

PHP Pre-Day
~~~~~~~~~~

Thanks to sponsorship from Microsoft, OSDC will feature a "PHP Pre-day".
Attendance and food is free thanks to the sponsorship, but numbers are
limited, so get in fast!

	http://2010.osdc.com.au/register

"You will not be borg'd and powerpointed to death with Microsoft speak,"
says Nick Hodge, one of the Microsoft folks attending the conference.
"The day is all about PHP."

If you'd like to present on a PHP-related topic at this pre-day, please
contact Nick Hodge directly at nhodge at microsoft.com.

WHO IS THIS CONFERENCE FOR?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Programmers who use open source tools and languages for open source
projects, or even closed source projects; along with those use
proprietary tools for open source projects are all welcome; as is anyone
who would just like to learn more about software development and the
tools and languages we're using. This is a great conference for
developers to improve their knowledge and make connections with the
Australian open source community.

Register today to make sure you don't miss out on this great opportunity:

	http://2010.osdc.com.au/register

WHAT WILL I LEARN? WHO WILL I MEET?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This year's awesome presenters and talk topics are listed here:

        http://2010.osdc.com.au/programme

Whether your ticket includes dinner or you choose to buy a ticket to
come along, the conference dinner is a great opportunity to mingle and
meet peers. Partners are also welcome at this event. Extra dinner
tickets can be purchased online:

	http://2010.osdc.com.au/register