From gerry at osdc.com.au  Fri Aug  5 08:05:13 2005
From: gerry at osdc.com.au (Gerry Quinlan)
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 01:05:13 +1000
Subject: [Central-coast-pm] OSDC 2005 Call For Papers
Message-ID: <42F38029.9060901@osdc.com.au>

OSDC (Open Source Developers' Conference) is a grass-roots/low cost
conference in the style of a YAPC or PyCon. It's organised for
developers, by developers, and we're looking for papers on open
source languages, technologies and tools.

The conference will be held in Melbourne (Monash University's Caulfield
Campus) from the 5th til the 7th of December, 2005.

Last years conference had about 160 people and around 60 papers on a
range of topics - see http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/2004.html for a
list. This list might also be useful if you're looking for ideas on
what sort of thing would be appropriate.

To submit a proposal, get yourself to the www.osdc.com.au website, and
hit the 'Call for papers' link, or go directly to the paper submission
website at http://osdc2005.cgpublisher.com/cfp.html

Key Dates:

Proposals deadline              19th August 2005
Proposal acceptance             12th September 2005
Submission deadline             28th October 2005
Final version for proceedings   15th November 2005
Conference                      5th - 7th December 2005

Please feel free to pass this on to any other people or groups
you think might be interested in submitting a paper! thanks

Hope to see you there!




From sam at vilain.net  Wed Aug 24 15:34:25 2005
From: sam at vilain.net (Sam Vilain)
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:34:25 +1200
Subject: [Central-coast-pm] Perl miniconf at LinuxConf.au 2006 [resend]
Message-ID: <1124922865.11639.10.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Nick Phillips points out that LinuxConf.au 2006, being held at Otago
University in Dunedin, NZ is also co-ordinating miniconfs;

 http://lca2006.linux.org.au/miniconfs.php

The main conference runs from Wednesday 25th January to Saturday 28th
January 2006.  Mini-confs would run on the Monday and Tuesday (23rd &
24th).

If there is enough interest, then there would be a strong argument for a
Perl mini-conference.

So, if you would be interested in attending Perl talks at LinuxConf
Australia 2006, please say so now!  Please do not cross-post replies to
all the .au & .nz Perlmongers lists; reply to your own group's list
only, thanks :).

Potential speakers have until Monday 5th September to submit talk
descriptions; we've got 2 days of talks to make up, and we don't JUST
want to hear Damian ;-).

Sam.

note: apologies if this hits any list twice.  I posted to all the .au &
.nz Perlmonger lists, but it bounced because of excessive cross-posting :)