From jarich at perltraining.com.au Tue Jun 8 23:07:46 2004 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:27:34 2004 Subject: [Central-coast-pm] Open Souce Developers Conferences Australia 2004 Message-ID: G'day folk, I'm the program chair for this conference and we'd love to invite you to submit a paper or two, do a talk and join us generally. This conference is effectively YAPC::AU by a different name (we decided to let a few other people share the conference with us). Our call for papers is out! It would be superb to have more speakers. If you haven't presented at a conference before please consider doing a lightning talk. This is a brief (7 minute) talk on one aspect of a topic. The Call for Papers can be found at: http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/call_for_papers.html The important dates are: Proposals deadline: 28th June 2004 Proposals acceptance: 29th July 2004 Submission deadline: 20th September 2004 Review results: 8th October 2004 Proceedings version: 8th November 2004 Conference: 1st - 3rd December 2004 We look forward to receiving your proposals. For further information about the conference please see our website: http://www.osdc.com.au/ Questions can be submitted to osdc-help@osdc.com.au I'm sorry about the lack of notice. Jacinta Richardson -- OSDC Program Chair -- ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | From jarich at perltraining.com.au Thu Jun 17 04:37:27 2004 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:27:34 2004 Subject: [Central-coast-pm] Submit your OSDC talk proposals. Message-ID: G'day folks, If you're intending to talk at OSDC later this year; now is a really good time to submit your talk proposal. Don't leave it to the last minute! It should only take you about 10 minutes to write your proposal, although you're welcome to go into great detail and take longer if you really want. Information on what we want in a talk proposal can be found at: http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/call_for_papers.html Currently we have the following tallies: Perl - 5 speakers, 285 minutes, 8 talks. Python - 5 speakers, 202 minutes, 6 talks. Php - 1 speaker, 155 minues, 4 talks Other - 3 speakers, 135 minutes, 3 talks. This gives us 777 minutes out of our desired 1890 minutes of presentations (not including keynotes). So we're slightly less than half way there. If you don't think you have anything very interesting to say please think again. Has an open source product saved your business? Have you used a Perl module in a way it wasn't meant to be used and achieved wonders? Do you have a favourite module that noone else seems to have heard about? Do you have a favourite module that everyone seems to have heard about yet noone seems to use? Have you used/Do you use any of the B:: modules in an interesting way? If not Perl, how about Php or Python, or some other open source tool or technology? We've even got a talk proposal on AI maze solving. Think hard then submit a proposal or three and we'll have a fantastic conference. All the very best, and looking forward to getting your proposals, Jacinta Richardson -- ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au |