Open Source Developers' Conference
The Open Source Developers' Conference (OSDC) is a non-profit conference for developers of open source software.
The conference is open to talks about software developed for any platform or operating system so long as the talk will be of interest to open source developers. Talks about closed source projects which used open source languages or open source projects which used close source languages are accepted. Talks cover languages such as Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Groovy, Scala, Java, Mono and C. Other talks may cover open source tools such as databases and revision control systems or meta-topics such as talk presentation hints, and working with others.
History
The conference was founded by Scott Penrose and first organised by members of the Melbourne Perl Mongers group in Melbourne, Australia in 2004. Originally it had been intended to be a YAPC-style (Perl) conference, but after discussions with the Melbourne PHP Users Group it was expanded to include PHP and Python talks. Following the 2004 conference success, Scott Penrose created the Open Source Developers' Club Association to encourage programmers of other languages to also be involved in running the conference. At first this was an entirely Melbourne based organisation, but after the 2005 conference, it expanded to include members from elsewhere in Australia. At the end of 2006, control of running the conference for 2007 was given to a group in Brisbane, with the Open Source Developers' Club Association committee members taking the role of overseers.
The OSDC idea has been taken up in Israel, Taiwan, Malaysia and France, where conferences began in 2006, 2007 and 2009 respectively.
OSDC Australia
Locations
Keynotes
- 2011
- Senator Kate Lundy [Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural affairs]: Openness in Government: from data to crowdsourcing
- Jonathon Oxer: Freedom for Atoms!
- Damian Conway: Fun with Dead Languages
- Brian Catto [Director of Architecture and Emerging Technologies, AGIMO]: Open Source Software and the Australian Government
- Tony Beal [Deputy General Counsel - Commercial, Australian Government Solicitor]: Legal Trips, Traps and Solutions for Open Source Software Developers
- 2010
- Ingy dot Net: C'Dent, the Acmeism and Everyone
- Noirin Shirley: Baby Steps into Open Source - Incubation and Mentoring at Apache
- Michael Schwern: How to Report a Bug
- Damian Conway: Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces...Made Easy!
- 2009
- Karen Pauley: Understanding Volunteers
- Marty Pauly:
- Dhanji Prasanna: Google Wave
- 2008
- Anthony Baxter:
- Chris DiBona:
- Andrew Tridgell:
- Larry Wall:
- Pia Waugh:
- 2007:
- Rusty Russell : C: A Humbling Language (opening keynote)
- Rasmus Lerdorf : Exploring the Broken Web
- Paul Fenwick : An Illustrated History of Failure (dinner keynote)
- Jonathan Oxer : Software Freedom: Pragmatic Idealism?
- Nathan Torkington : Software For The Future (closing keynote)
- 2006:
- 2005
- Anthony Baxter: How to give a good presentation (dinner keynote)
- Audrey Tang: Introduction to Pugs: Perl 6 in Haskell
- Jonathan Oxer: Making things Move: Finding Inappropriate Uses for Scripting Languages
- Savio Saldanha: Oils aint Oils: A comparison of some open source and closed source databases
- Pia and Jeff Waugh: "Untitled Keynote" (closing keynote)
- 2004
- Damian Conway: Perl 6: OO Made Insanely Great (opening keynote)
- Con Zymaris : Using the Open Source Methodology to Make Money from Your Software (dinner keynote)
- Nathan Torkington: Open Source Trends
- Anthony Baxter : "Scripting Language" My Arse: Using Python for Voice over IP
- Luke Welling: MySQL 2005
- Damian Conway: Sufficiently Advanced Technology (closing keynote)
Papers
Best presentation
OSDC Israel
Locations
OSDC.tw (Taiwan)
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OSDC.my (Malaysia)
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OSDC.fr, France
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See also
External links