Registrations are open for OSDC 2006

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.ht
ml

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://w
ww.osdc.com.au/papers/tutorials.html

We look forward to sharing this great conference with you.

        Richard Jones
        OSDC Program Chair
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Hi all,

Myself and some others from this list have been working on a

publication, to be called the "Melbourne Python User's
Letters," based 
on the name of this user group. I have set up a blog for
this 
publication at http://mpul.blogspot.com/ to serve for marketing, 
pre-releases, announcements, comment and feedback.

The intention is that the publication will be a mixture of
responses by 
developers to letters from python users -- such as perhaps
many on this 
list, and peer-reviewed articles. We have a dedicated
editorial board, 
and are keen to go the distance in making this publication
high quality 
in terms of content, appeal and presentation.

We will be nominating the publication for recognition as an
academic 
journal, and it is hoped that the mixture of accessible
articles (code 
and application reviews, announcements etc) and formal
articles will 
encourage a wide takeup.

I think this is a genuinely exciting project to be involved
with, and 
that we could use this as a vehicle for giving something
back to the 
Python community. It would be fantastic to have the active
involvement 
of this list in helping to spread the work, provide feedback
and 
comment, plus requests for articles etc.

At this stage we are hoping to have the first issue
published by 1 
September, and to immediately start preparations for a
second issue. We 
look forward to your involvement.

Cheers,
-T (Editor, MPUL)
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