[Melbourne-pm] OSDClub meeting - 6th April 2006
Jacinta Richardson
jarich at perltraining.com.au
Mon Mar 27 19:02:43 PST 2006
We invite you to join us for the next OSDClub meeting:
When: 6:30pm, Thursday 6th April, 2005
Where: Room 56-5-88, RMIT Building 56
Corner of Queensbury & Lygon streets.
More details: http://www.osdc.com.au/osdclub/
Our featured talks will be:
Copylefting the DMCA: DRM and the version 3 of the GPL
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This talk examines the DRM-related clauses that have been proposed for
inclusion in version 3 of the GNU General Public License. It considers
the effects of the language in the FSF's first draft, as well as the
directions in which that language might move for the final version. I
then analyse the effects that a strengthened GPL could conceivably have
on the development of DRM systems, and the strategic considerations
involved for the Free Software Foundation, the broader open source
software community, DRM developers, major copyright holders, and even
governments.
(more: http://www.osdc.com.au/osdclub/200604/copylefting.html)
Doing cool things with open source javascript libraries
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This talk is an introduction to some of the cross-browser javascript
libraries out there that make it easier to make interactive and dynamic
web pages. We'll have a look at the various helper functions for dealing
with the DOM, objects, arrays and the things you commonly want to do.
We'll look at some of the standard objects available such as calendars,
tree-view lists and sliders. We'll also have a look at the Event
handling and Ajax functions provided.
The libraries covered will be: prototype, scriptaculous and yahoo's YUI.
Talk Proposals
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We invite you to offer talk proposals for future meetings. To be involved, send
your talk topic to clubadmin at osdc.com.au Presentations can make use of a
particular programming language to illustrate examples, but should be accessible
to programmers from a range of backgrounds.
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