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 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
- essay papers
- IRC channel #osdc on freenode
- admission essay
- equity release uk
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/
- Dissertation writers
- 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
- Dissertation help
- http://www.mindmeister.com - Collaborative mindmapping site
Software Freedom: Pragmatic Idealism?
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
Slides online
http://www.slideshare.net/group/osdc2007/slideshows
See Also
http://perl.net.au/wiki/Open_Source_Developers_Conference_2007
