OSDC Australia 2007

The fourth Open Source Developers' Conference ran on the 26th - 29th November 2007 in Brisbane. As in 2006, it included a day of tutorials at the start. Talks included packaging and testing Perl applications, integrating PHP with Active Directory, Commercial open source with Python, and using Ruby in a Java-shop.

Keynote speakers included Rusty Russell, Rasmus Lerdorf, Paul Fenwick, Jonathan Oxer and Nathan Torkington.

Attendance breakdown

Attendance was approximately 230 attendees making it the biggest OSDC yet.

Paid Tickets

• 31 Full
• 71 Earlybird
• 44 Not quite so earlybird
• 7 Students
• 54 Speakers

Limited Access Tickets

• 2 Tutorial Only
• 6 Single Day Passes

Free Passes

• 5 Sponsor Passes
• 5 Organiser
• 3 Helpers

Tutorials

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Feeds

• Paul Fenwick collected RSS/Atom feeds related to osdc, to post on http://jaiku.com/channel/OSDC . If you have a feed, or wish to join jaiku (a microblogging service), please post it here or let Paul know.
• Adam Harvey (LawnGnome on IRC) is working on getting a Planet set up for those old-fashioned folk who still prefer full blog posts instead of microblogging. More information will be posted if and when it's up.

Meetups/Developer Groups

• Steve Dalton is shouting out to anyone at OSDC from the Gold Coast. He's interested in setting up a new Gold Coast developer group - not sure if this will be just a RoR? group or something wider... depends on how many people get in touch. Email s <at> dalts <dot> com

Communicate

• IRC channel #osdc on freenode

Media

Please post anything to the following groups

• Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/group/osdc2007/slideshows
• Add the presentation to slideshare first, then send to group (in slide detail)
• Photos of the event: http://flickr.com/groups/osdc2007
• Videos: http://www.youtube.com/group/osdc

Like minded groups

• Linux Australia - http://www.linux.org.au/
• Open Source Industry Australia - http://www.osia.net.au/
• BarCamp? Australia - http://barcamp.org/BarCampAustralia
• Brisbane Ruby and Rails Brigade - http://ruby.meetup.com/74/
• Ruby on Rails Oceania - http://rubyonrails.com.au/
• PHP Melbourne - http://phpmelb.org

Presentations Notes

Kevin Littlejohn

Kevin mentioned Paul Fenwick's talk on starting an open source business. A video of this talk from LCA 2007 can be found at http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2007/video/talks/322.ogg . Paul would love this to end up on YouTube?, but hasn't bothered to check the licensing on the video.

[SD - I checked this - but it's going to take some chopping to fit it on youtube so probably not worth it]

Simon Hildebrandt

The slides from Simon's 'i18n For The Web' talk are available at http://simonhildebrandt.com/presenter-i18n.html

Arjen - Getting Things Done

Tom Limencheli - Sysadmin book - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Limoncelli

Links

Getting Things Done

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gtd
• http://thinkingrock.com.au
• http://freemind.sourceforge.net - Mindmap
• http://www.mindmeister.com - Collaborative mindmapping site

Software Freedom: Pragmatic Idealism?

• http://lists.osia.net.au/mailman/listinfo/
• http://linux.org.au/About/Mailing_Lists
• http://eeepc.asus.com/en/

Lightning Talks

• S5 - http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
• gpgID - http://www.gpgid.com/
• Scanee - Available from svn: https://secure.benshosting.com/svn/projects/scanee/trunk/
• http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Main_Page
• http://www.nvda-project.org/ - free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows

Slides online

http://www.slideshare.net/group/osdc2007/slideshows

See Also

http://perl.net.au/wiki/Open_Source_Developers_Conference_2007