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Australian Open Source Developers' Conference Issues Call for Papers

CGIDir
Thursday, June 1, 2006; 09:16 AM

The Australian Open Source Developers' Conference is a conference designed for developers, by developers. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems. We're seeking papers on Open Source languages, technologies, projects and tools as well as topics of interest to Open Source developers.

From the announcement:

Open Source Developers' Conference 2006
Melbourne, Australia
5th - 8th December 2006
Website: http://www.osd.com.au/
Call for papers: http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/cfp06.html

Past keynote speakers have included Dr Damian Conway and Audrey Tang (of Perl fame), Anthony Baxter (Python release manager), Luke Welling and Jon Oxer (of PHP fame), Nathan Torkington (O'Reilly) and Richard Farnsworth (Australian Synchrotron).

This year continues the huge success of OSDC 2004 and OSDC 2005 with a related conference (OSDC::Israel) held in Israel in February and the Australian conference being held in Melbourne on 5th - 8th December.

Last year's accepted proposals are available for those who wish to gain an idea of what might be appropriate.

If you have any questions, or have never submitted a paper proposal before, please read the FAQ page. Instructions for submitting a proposal can be found on the CFP webpage. This year the organizers are also going to run a day of tutorials.

The deadline for proposals is 12th July 2006.