Open Source Developers' Club

From the success of the first conference held in Melbourne, Australia, in 2004, came the idea that all of the local developers' groups could benefit from more interaction. To achieve this it was suggested that we should hold shared meetings on topics that were of interest to members of those groups, but that were also language neutral.

Many user groups find that they run a number of talks and sessions which could have a benefit beyond just their members. In Melbourne Perl Monger's case these are on primarily open source topics and issues which are by no means limited to Perl. Examples of such talks include Postgres and other database systems, XSLT, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript? - to name just a few. The Linux Users of Victoria Programmers sig also has the same type of agenda - where some talks are specifically Linux and others are more broadly based.

Melbourne, Australia

Web site: http://osdc.com.au/osdclub/

Meetings occur every two months and are hosted, alternately, by Melbourne Perl Monger's[1] and the Melbourne PHP Users Group[2]. We invite all open source programmers to join us.

Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Web site: http://itgoldcoast.org/osdgc

Meetings occur on an informal basis.