From jarich at osdc.com.au Wed Oct 10 22:41:23 2007 From: jarich at osdc.com.au (jarich at osdc.com.au) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:41:23 +1000 (EST) Subject: [hbpm] OSDC 2007 Program is available Message-ID: <20071011054123.C73B7A93EB@teddybear.perltraining.com.au> Dear HawkesBay PM members, Registrations are open for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2007: http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html Book before THIS SUNDAY - 14th October to save $50 and get a free conference t-shirt! Key information: 14th October - Early bird date 26th November - Tutorials 27th - 29th November - Technical program 28th November - Google Conference Dinner Royal on the Park Hotel Cnr Alice & Albert Streets Brisbane CBD Queensland The Open Source Developers' Conference is an Australian conference covering talks about software development for open source languages and projects; regardless of operating system. There will be 3-4 streams of talks over the three days of technical program, with combined keynotes at the start of each day. Morning and afternoon teas, and lunch will be provided. The Google Conference Dinner will be held on the night of the 28th November (each full registration includes one ticket (until sold out)). Talks this year include: * "Packaging Perl Applications: From CPAN To Your Project" by Kirrily Robert * "Integrating PHP and Active Directory" by Scott Barnett * "Commercial Open Source with Python: Experiences from the Trenches: Developing a Commercial Python Open Source Project" by Juergen Brendel * "Why would a Java Shop want to use Ruby?" by Keith Pitty * "Unfair advantage - Taking on .net with a world-beating open source stack" by Stuart Guthrie To see more and view the program please visit: http://www.cgpublisher.com/conferences/107/web/program-detail.html Conference keynote presenters include Rusty Russell (opening), Rasmus Lerdorf, Paul Fenwick (dinner), Kimberlee Weatherall, Nat Torkington (closing), and plenaries by Ian Clatworthy and Melissa Draper! You can help us make this conference be the best developers' conference this year just by turning up and participating! We look forward to sharing this great conference with you. If your business would like to benefit from exposure to many of Australia's best open source developers then perhaps you should consider sponsorship. We have a wide range of sponsorship options, to find out more information please visit: http://www.osdc.com.au/sponsors/index.html Many thanks go to our sponsors: Apress, Brisbane PHP, BuilderAU, Common Ground, Google, Linux Magazine, Opengear, Open Query, Red Hat, realestate.com.au, Sun Microsystems, Trolltech, Woodslane, Zac-Ware/Freeway. Jacinta Richardson OSDC Publicity Officer PS: There will be a total of 4 of these messages from me over the next month and a bit. If this is unacceptable, please let me know and I won't send the others to you. From jarich at perltraining.com.au Wed Oct 24 20:08:20 2007 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (jarich at perltraining.com.au) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:08:20 +1000 (EST) Subject: [hbpm] OSDC 2007's Tutorial Program Message-ID: <20071025030820.01C98A8BC7@teddybear.perltraining.com.au> Dear HawkesBay PM members, Registrations are open for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2007: http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html The early bird has been partially extended. Book before October 31st to save $30, and to get your free t-shirt. No t-shirts will be available after the 31st October! Key information: 31st October - Extended almost-early bird date 26th November - Tutorials 27th - 29th November - Technical programme 28th November - Google Conference Dinner Royal on the Park Hotel Cnr Alice & Albert Streets Brisbane CBD Queensland The Open Source Developers' Conference is an Australian conference covering talks about software development for open source languages and projects; regardless of operating system. There will be 3-4 streams of talks over the three days of technical programme, with combined keynotes at the start of each day. Morning and afternoon teas, and lunch will be provided. The Google Conference Dinner will be held on the night of the 28th November (each full registration includes one ticket (until sold out)). Tutorial attendance will include a tea break, lunch and printed reference material. Tutorials cost $250 each. Our tutorial program is included below: Room 1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00am "MySQL Optimisation by Design" by Arjen Lentz 12:30pm Lunch 1:30pm "Advanced SQL for Developers (PostgreSQL)" by Evan Leybourn 5:00pm End --------------------------------------------------------------------- Room 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00am "Test Driven Development" by Kirrily Robert 12:30pm Lunch 1:30pm "Getting Started with Bazaar" by Ian Clatworthy 5:00pm End --------------------------------------------------------------------- Room 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00am "Incident Response using PyFlag - the Forensic and Log Analysis GUI" by Dr Michael Cohen 12:30pm Lunch 1:30pm "Groovy Tutorial" by Dr Paul W King 5:00pm End --------------------------------------------------------------------- A tea break will occur roughly half way through each tutorial. For more information on what each tutorial covers, please follow the links from the schedule: http://www.cgpublisher.com/conferences/107/web/program-detail.html Prices and information on how to register can be found at: http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html You can help us make this conference be the best developers' conference this year just by turning up and participating! We look forward to sharing this great conference with you. If your business would like to benefit from exposure to many of Australia's best open source developers then perhaps you should consider sponsorship. We have a wide range of sponsorship options, to find out more information please visit: http://www.osdc.com.au/sponsors/index.html Many thanks go to our sponsors: Apress, Brisbane PHP, BuilderAU, Common Ground, Google, Linux Magazine, Opengear, Open Query, Red Hat, realestate.com.au, Sun Microsystems, Trolltech, Woodslane, Zac-Ware/Freeway. Jacinta Richardson OSDC Publicity Officer