[H-GEN] Open Source Developers Conference - Do we want to host it?

[Clinton Roy]

> The opportunity has presented itself for Brisbane to host this years
> Open Source Developers Conference in December.  The previous OSDCs
> have been held in Melbourne, but after several years and with an LCA
> to organise, the OSDC organising committee have asked for another
> city to host it this year.  Sydney have said that they are willing to
> host it if no-one else can be found, however not surprisingly the
> committee would like to find a city that wants to host it.
>
> The conference is much smaller than LCA, generally 150-200 people.  I
> am willing to help organise it, and several humbuggers who were at
> LCA have also expressed interest and excitement at the prospect of
> hosting OSDC. I will let those individuals speak for themselves; I
> felt it important to start this discussion now we are back from LCA
> as the decision needs to be made within the next couple of weeks.

I'm happy to help, I think it'd be a lovely little project to have
before tackling a 1k attendee LCA.



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