From jarich at perltraining.com.au Tue Oct 17 01:33:52 2006 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (jarich at perltraining.com.au) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:33:52 +1000 (EST) Subject: [Canberra-pm] OSDC 2006's fabulous keynotes Message-ID: <20061017083352.F000BA80A9@teddybear.perltraining.com.au> Book before 31st October to save $50 and get a free conference t-shirt! Registrations are open for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2006: http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html The conference is running in Melbourne from the 6th - 8th December, with a day of tutorials on the 5th. Keynote talks this year include: Damian Conway: "The Da Vinci Codebase" When a dying operating system scrawls his name across its corrupted boot volume, Dr. Damian Conway, an unassuming college professor, is plunged into a deadly race against time to solve a series of impossible riddles. What is the mysterious "Priory of Bios?" And who are their deadly nemeses "Opus Arai?" On the run from the law and stalked by a ghostly pale killer, will he unravel the subtle clues hidden in Leonardo's most famous source code and reveal to the world the incredible secret encrypted in...the Da Vinci Codebase? Randal L. Schwartz: "Free software - A look back, a look ahead" A twenty year history of the free/open software movement, from my perspective of how to contribute (in many ways!) and how to make money as well. Richard Farnsworth: "Open Source Synchrotron" What is a Synchrotron anyway? What software needs does it has? How can Open Source help solve these? The Australian Synchrotron achieved first light in July 2005 almost exclusively filling its software needs through open source. The code base has been refined to suit local conditions, and shared with the rest of the Synchrotron open source community. By sharing information, experience and software freely between scientists and engineers, great design efficiencies have been made further aiding the development of experimental beamlines. Anthony Baxter: "futurepython" import __future__ What does the future hold for the Python language? In this talk, we'll look at Microsoft's (Open Sourced!) IronPython and show some of the massive fun coming down the track for scripting languages thanks to .Net and Mono. We'll also cover Python 3.0 (now under development) and the PyPy (Python, in Python) project. Be a part of this fantastic conference and help it be the best developers' conference this year! 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 We look forward to sharing this great conference with you! Don't forget to register before 31st October to get a free conference t-shirt. http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html Jacinta Richardson OSDC Publicity Officer From jarich at perltraining.com.au Mon Oct 23 03:53:41 2006 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:53:41 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-pm] Call for presentations: Women's mini-conference at linux.conf.au 2007 Message-ID: <453C9F35.9020607@perltraining.com.au> G'day everyone, I'm posting this on behalf of the LinuxChix Women's mini-conference. If you're interested in participating or know someone who might be, please pass it on. Everyone is welcome to attend the mini-conf. All the best, J The women's mini-conference at linux.conf.au 2007 is calling for presentations by women on both Free Software technical topics and general topics of general interest to women involved in Free Software or working in IT. About the miniconference The LinuxChix women's mini-conference will be held on Tuesday, 16 January, 2007 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia, as part of the annual linux.conf.au Free Software conference running from 15?20 January, 2007. All attendees of linux.conf.au are welcome to attend the women's miniconference, which will highlight the technical achievements of women in Free Software. The mini-conference welcomes attendees and speakers from other women's advocacy and development groups including Systers, Fedora Women and Debian Women among others. The mini-conference has several 45 talks slots available. Speakers should plan to present for 30 minutes; the remaining time will be devoted to discussion. All technical talks should be on Free (Open Source) Software related topics. Abstracts for talk proposals should be submitted to miniconf-submission at puzzling.org by Friday, November 10, 2006. The miniconference will also have some shorter (5?10 minute) demonstration and lightning talk slots available, you are welcome to email us to express an interest in giving one of these, but they do not have to be submitted at this time. Please see http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix for more information about the women's mini-conference and http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix/CFP for full details of the call for presentations. Feel free to forward this mail to any women or groups you think would be interested. About linux.conf.au 2007 linux.conf.au is Australia's annual technical conference for the Open Source and Free Software developer community. Now in its eighth year, linux.conf.au is regarded as one of the premier global FLOSS technical events and attracts many international open source software developers and users. Returning to Sydney from the 15th to 20th of January, linux.conf.au 2007 is supported by our Emperor sponsors, HP and IBM, and hosted at the University of New South Wales. For more information about linux.conf.au 2007 visit our website at: http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ About Linux Australia Linux Australia exists to serve and promote the Australian Linux and Open Source community. The organisation aims to do this best by taking enthusiasms within the community, such as FOSS issues, projects, education, advocacy just to name a few, and help them flourish, to succeed. The lifeblood of this organisation is the people in the community, and Linux Australia strives to be both relevant and useful to the community. For more details about Linux Australia visit: http://www.linux.org.au/