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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
- Adam Harvey, 'OSDC 2007' Category
- Juergen Brendel, Reflections on OSDC 2007 in Brisbane
- Arjen Lentz, OSDC 2007 Brisbane - starting!
- Paul Fenwick, Open Source Developers' Conference 2007
- Keith Pitty, OSDC 2007
- Ben Balbo, Powerful Cross Site Scripting Scanning Tool
- Peter Lieverdink, osdc
- Alan Green, (mixed)
- Michael Neale, Open Source Developer Conference - 2007
- Joomla! and Google Highly Open Participation at OSDC2007
- Elspeth Thorn, OSDC
- Sarah Stokely, Is Open Office too slow to be usable?
- Melissa Dapper, The practically unplanned talk tour?

