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Open Source Developers' Conference 2007

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Location

The Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 was held 26th - 29th November at the Royal on the Park Hotel in Brisbane, Queensland. The conference dinner was sold out. It was held on-site.

Details

See the OSDC web site for all details.

Photographs

A number of photographs can be found on flickr tagged with osdc2007.

Advertised talks

  • Packaging Perl Applications: From CPAN To Your Project by Kirrily Robert
  • Integrating PHP and Active Directory by Scott Barnett
  • Commercial Open Source with Python: Experiences from the Trenches: Developing a Commercial Python Open Source Project by Juergen Brendel
  • Why would a Java Shop want to use Ruby? by Keith Pitty
  • Unfair advantage - Taking on .net with a world-beating open source stack by Stuart Guthrie

A full list of talks can be found at: http://osdc2007.cgpublisher.com/session_descriptions.html The programme can be found at: http://osdc2007.cgpublisher.com/program-detail.html

Keynotes

  • Rusty Russell: "C: A Humbling Language"
  • Rasmus Lerdorf: "Exploring the Broken Web"
  • Paul Fenwick: "An Illustrated History of Failure"
  • Jonathan Oxer: "Software Freedom: Pragmatic Idealism?"
  • Nathan Torkington: "Software For The Future"

Tutorials

A number of tutorials ran on the first conference day (26th November 2007).

  • "MySQL Optimisation by Design" by Arjen Lentz
  • "Advanced SQL for Developers (PostgreSQL)" by Evan Leybourn
  • "Test Driven Development" by Kirrily Robert
  • "Getting Started with Bazaar" by Ian Clatworthy
  • "Incident Response using PyFlag - the Forensic and Log Analysis GUI" by Dr Michael Cohen
  • "Groovy Tutorial" by Dr Paul W King

Lightning talks

There were 3 sessions of lightning talks, one per day.

Probably the most popular lightning talk was the Pac Wars short movie inspired by the playdo fun at the conference dinner.

Blogs

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