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Open Source Developers Conference 2006

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Open Source Developers Conference

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Location

The Open Source Developers' Conference was held at Monash University, Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East. The conference dinner was completely sold out. It was held at the Griff Inn.

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Photographs

A number of photographs can be found on flickr tagged with osdcmelb2006.

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Advertised talks

  • 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
  • Obfuscation, Golfing and Secret Operators in Perl by José Castro, Team Leader at log
  • A Rails/Django Comparison by Alan Green, Cirrus Technologies and Ben Askins, Sterland Computing
  • Retooling the World Wide Web for its Original Purpose Kieren Diment, University of Wollongong. (slides here)

A full list of talks can be found at: http://osdc2006.cgpublisher.com/session_descriptions.html The programme can be found at: http://osdc2006.cgpublisher.com/program.html

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Keynotes

  • Damian Conway: "The Da Vinci Codebase"
  • Randal L. Schwartz: "Free software - A look back, a look ahead"
  • Richard Farnsworth: "Open Source Synchrotron"
  • Anthony Baxter: "futurepython"
  • Scott Penrose: "Zaltana"
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Tutorials

A number of tutorials ran on the first conference day (5th December 2006).

  • Shoaib Burq - Open Source Python GIS Hacks
  • Jon Oxer - Large scale web apps: managing releases and devteam infrastructure
  • Amanda Penrose - Practical application of Cascading Style Sheets for accessibility and useablity
  • Vaishnav - Drupal Tutorial
  • Randal Schwartz - Test Web Applications with Perl & Intro to Perl Template Toolkit
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Lightning talks

Lightning talks were held in two one hour sessions on both Thursday and Friday afternoons.

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Lightning talk apology

Richard Jones from the Open Source Developers' Conference committee apologised on the morning of Friday 8th for an unsuitable image displayed during the Thursday lightning talk sessions:

The imagery used in one of the lightning talks (yesterday) was inappropriate.
OSDC apologises for any offense caused and for not stopping the talk as soon as the image was used. Such action will be taken immediately in the future, though we would hope that it will not be necessary.

This talk was blogged about and discussed in the following places:

Adam Kennedy has apologised.

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Thursday lightning talks

  • Russell Coker -- Linux distro security improvements
  • Craig -- Web app deployment with Capistrana
  • Cog -- Put Australia on the (Perl) map
  • Jon Oxer - Beginner Langages & Xen image manager
  • Daiki -- 2D Visualisation of OSS development
  • Tennessee Leeuwenburg -- The python papers
  • David Jorm -- RSA Encyrption
  • Adam Kennedy -- How to name your CPAN module
  • Kieren Diment -- Catalyst (Days 'til Christmas)
  • Andrae Muys -- RDF and Mulgara
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Friday lightning talks

If you can help fill in any of these names, or the missing talks, please do!

  • Richard Jones -- Quick overview of Selenium and demo of pyglet working
  • Cog -- Things I learned from OSDC
  • Paul Fenwick -- Acme::OSDc
  • Mary Gardiner -- Women in FLOSS Groups
  • Kieren Diment -- Catalyst development
  • Russell Coker -- Selinux installation
  •  ?? -- Days 'til Christmas in Drupal
  •  ?? -- Days 'til Christmas in Rails
  •  ?? -- Exposing the code (done in notepad)
  • Alfie John -- For::Else
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Media

For the first time ever, OSDC had 2 media people in the audience. One was Chris Ducket from Builder AU and another was Sarah Stokely (independant). Chris interviewed José Castro (cog) during the events.

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Blogs

The following blog entries exist regarding OSDC 2006.

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