Registrations are open for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2006: http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html Book before 31st October to save $50 and get a free conference t-shirt!

The Open Source Developers' Conference is an Australian conference covering talks about software development for open source languages and projects; regardless of operating system. The technical program is running from 6th - 8th December 2006 and will be held in Melbourne, Victoria (at Monash University's Caulfield Campus). We are planning to have 3 streams of talks over the three days with combined keynotes at the start and end of each day. Morning and afternoon teas, and lunch will be provided. A conference dinner will be held on the night of the 6th.

This year we have a strong Python track with talks including:

- "Python in Mozilla" by Mark Hammond, Enfold Systems Inc. 

- "Overview of Python ctypes" by Alex Holkner (the pygame-ctypes guy)

- "Python 3.0" by Anthony Baxter, Python's release manager

- "A Rails/Django Comparison" by Alan Green, Cirrus Technologies and
  Ben Askins, Sterland Computing

Other talks include:

- "Mono - Migrating from Windows to Linux" by Dr. Trent Mifsud,
  Lecturer for the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

- "Data Warehousing HOWTO" by Evan Leybourn, Director of Looking Glass
  Solutions

- "J2EE and Open Source Innovation: The Relationship between Open
  Source and Standards" by Keith Pitty, Senior Consultant at Cirrus
  Technologies Pty Ltd

- "Enterprise PHP" by Thorsten Rinne, Software Developer at Mayflower
  GmbH / ThinkPHP

- "Obfuscation, Golfing and Secret Operators in Perl" by José Castro,
  Team Leader at log

For a full list please visit: http://osdc2006.cgpublisher.com/session_descriptions.html

Conference keynote presentors include Damian Conway, Randal L. Schwartz, Richard Farnsworth and others. On the 5th of December we are running a number of short tutorials. These cover Cascading Style Sheets, Open Source Python GIS Hacks, Testing Web Applications with Perl, a Drupal Tutorial, an Introduction to Perl Template Toolkit and Building Large Scale Web Apps. For more information please visit: http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/tutorials.html

We look forward to sharing this great conference with you.

    Richard Jones
    OSDC Program Chair