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You are invited to attend the Open Source Developers' Conference 2006. This is an Australian conference covering talks about software development for open source languages and projects; regardless of operating system. It features keynotes from Damian Conway and Randal Schwartz, tutorials from Randal and talks from José Castro, Adam Kennedy, Paul Fenwick and other Perlmonks.

5th December 2006 Day of tutorials 6th - 8th December 2006 Technical Programme

The conference location is Monash University Caulfield Campus, Melbourne.

Each day will have 3 streams of talks over the three days with combined keynotes at the start and end of each day. Morning and afternoon teas, and lunch will be provided. A conference dinner will be held on the night of the 6th.

Our tutorial program is included below:

Room 1 Room 2 9:00am Cascading Style Sheets Open Source Python GIS Hack +s 12:30pm Lunch Lunch 1:30pm Test Web Apps with Perl Drupal Tutorial 3:00pm Afternoon tea Afternoon tea 3:30pm Intro to Perl Template::Toolkit Large Scale Web Apps

For more information on what each tutorial covers please visit: http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/tutorials.html

The technical program includes:

  • "Obfuscation, Golfing and Secret Operators in Perl" by José Castro, Team Leader at log
  • "Mono - Migrating from Windows to Linux" by Dr. Trent Mifsud, Lecturer for the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
  • "Data Warehousing HOWTO" by Evan Leybourn, Director of Looking Glass Solutions
  • "J2EE and Open Source Innovation: The Relationship between Open Source and Standards" by Keith Pitty, Senior Consultant at Cirrus Technologies Pty Ltd
  • "Enterprise PHP" by Thorsten Rinne, Software Developer at Mayflower GmbH / ThinkPHP
  • "A Rails/Django Comparison" by Alan Green, Cirrus Technologies and Ben Askins, Sterland Computing

For a full list please visit: http://osdc2006.cgpublisher.com/session_descriptions.html

Conference keynote presentors include Damian Conway, Randal L. Schwartz, Richard Farnsworth and Anthony Baxter.

We look forward to sharing this great conference with you.