[H-ANNOUNCE] Fw: OSDC 2006's fabulous keynotes

[David Seikel]

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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:33:57 +1000 (EST)
From: jarich at perltraining.com.au
To: secretary at humbug.org.au
Subject: OSDC 2006's fabulous keynotes


Book before 31st October to save $50 and get a free conference t-shirt!

Registrations are open for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2006:
http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html   The conference is
running in Melbourne from the 6th - 8th December, with a day of
tutorials on the 5th.

Keynote talks this year include:

Damian Conway:      "The Da Vinci Codebase"

When a dying operating system scrawls his name across its corrupted boot
volume, Dr. Damian Conway, an unassuming college professor, is plunged
into a deadly race against time to solve a series of impossible
riddles. What is the mysterious "Priory of Bios?" And who are their
deadly nemeses "Opus Arai?" On the run from the law and stalked by a
ghostly pale killer, will he unravel the subtle clues hidden in
Leonardo's most famous source code and reveal to the world the
incredible secret encrypted in...the Da Vinci Codebase?


Randal L. Schwartz: "Free software - A look back, a look ahead"

A twenty year history of the free/open software movement, from my
perspective of how to contribute (in many ways!) and how to make money
as well.


Richard Farnsworth: "Open Source Synchrotron"

What is a Synchrotron anyway?  What software needs does it has?  How can
Open Source help solve these?  The Australian Synchrotron achieved first
light in July 2005 almost exclusively filling its software needs through
open source.  The code base has been refined to suit local conditions,
and shared with the rest of the Synchrotron open source community.  By
sharing information, experience and software freely between scientists
and engineers, great design efficiencies have been made further aiding
the development of experimental beamlines.


Anthony Baxter:     "futurepython"

import __future__

What does the future hold for the Python language? In this talk, we'll
look at Microsoft's (Open Sourced!) IronPython and show some of the
massive fun coming down the track for scripting languages thanks
to .Net and Mono. We'll also cover Python 3.0 (now under development)
and the PyPy (Python, in Python) project.



Be a part of this fantastic conference and help it be the best
developers' conference this year!  If your business would like to
benefit from exposure to many of Australia's best open source
developers then perhaps you should consider sponsorship.  We have a
wide range of sponsorship options, to find out more information please
visit: http://www.osdc.com.au/sponsors/index.html

We look forward to sharing this great conference with you!  Don't
forget to register before 31st October to get a free conference t-shirt.

http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html

	Jacinta Richardson 
	OSDC Publicity Officer
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