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

[Nick Kwiatkowski]

Andrae Muys wrote on 21/01/2007 10:06:26 PM:

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> 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.
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> 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.
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You can count me in and I have support from members of our Open Source
Community of Practice, I put the call out to them, and will see what we can
do from an OzLab, etc, point of view.

Cheers,

Nik

Nickolas Kwiatkowski
IT Architect (Certified)
Architecture Services
Global Business Services - Application Services
IBM Global Services, Brisbane, Australia
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