From jarich at perltraining.com.au Mon Oct 11 00:44:59 2004 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Mon Oct 11 00:45:01 2004 Subject: [hbpm] OSDC open for registrations Message-ID: <416A1DDB.9090702@perltraining.com.au> G'day folk, This is a quick note to let you know that the Open Source Developers Conference is now open for registration. This conference will be run on the 1st - 3rd of December 2004 at Monash University, Caulfield in Melbourne, Australia. The cost is $230 and the early bird date expires on the 15th of October. OSDC is a grassroots-style conference designed by developers for developers, covering open source languages, tools, libraries, operating systems, licences and business models. The conference will include tracks devoted to Perl, Python, PHP and other tools. You can register online at http://www.osdc.com.au/ We look forward to seeing you in December! All the very best, 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 Mon Oct 11 21:23:04 2004 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Mon Oct 11 21:23:13 2004 Subject: [hbpm] Early bird extension for OSDC conference Message-ID: <416B4008.3030007@perltraining.com.au> G'day folk, We agree that giving you 4 days for early bird registration isn't sufficient. As a result we've extended the early bird registration date for everyone. If you register before 31st October 2004 you will receive a conference t-shirt and financial discount. The t-shirts look fantastic. :) You can register at http://www.osdc.com.au/ OSDC is a grassroots-style conference designed by developers for developers, covering open source languages, tools, libraries, operating systems, licences and business models. We're booking 3 lecture rooms each day for the 3 days and every single slot is filled with a talk. There are 60 different talks by 45 different speakers, not including the keynotes. Talks topics range from dealing with hardware in Perl, to designing cochlear implants with Python, to writing large-scale PHP. We also have talks on the Firebird Database, Mozilla XUL, Lego Micromouse (and maze solving), MySQL, CVS, Make, DocBook and writing games with Javascript. You can find the list of speakers and talk titles at http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/index.html Speaker names listed as "unavailable" means that that speaker opted to have their paper refereed. Their names will appear once the refereeing process is over. Because there are so many good talks, you can be certain that there will be something that interests you in every talk session. In our initial timetable it was impossible to put the most interesting talks into sequential timeslots as we had too many "most interesting" talks for the time available. Each day will start with a 1.5 hour keynote by our excellent keynote speakers. These include Damian Conway, Nathan Torkington, Anthony Baxter, Luke Welling and Con Zymaris. The rest of the day will be filled with 5 hours of talks and plentiful food breaks. Our catering choices should result in you being extraordinarily well fed throughout the days of the conference. There will also be a key-signing, several BOFs (yet to be organised), lots of opportunities to socialise, a semi-formal dinner, a partners' programme and other usual conference stuff. If you have any other questions about what is happening, please don't hesitate to ask: osdc-help@osdc.com.au All the very best, 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 Mon Oct 25 18:36:35 2004 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Mon Oct 25 18:36:38 2004 Subject: [hbpm] OSDC early bird finishes on Sunday! Message-ID: <417D8E03.3030005@perltraining.com.au> G'day folk, Sorry to harp on about this, but if you *are* thinking of heading over to come to Melbourne Perl Monger's OSDC in December 1st - 3rd this year, then you've only got a few more days to register and get the early bird special. Registering now means you get your very own OSDC t-shirt and a discount of $35. It also means you're guaranteed a place, as we do have a maximum number of registrants. The conference line up is looking really good. You can see the current list of papers at http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/ Talks topics range from dealing with hardware in Perl, to designing cochlear implants with Python, to writing large-scale PHP. We also have talks on the Firebird Database, Mozilla XUL, Lego Micromouse (and maze solving), MySQL, CVS, Make, DocBook and writing games with Javascript. I hope to see you at the conference! Jacinta Richardson -- ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia | (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001 | _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | contact@perltraining.com.au | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au |