perlnews jarich <p> You are invited to attend the [http://www.osdc.com.au/|Open Source Developers' Conference 2006]. This is an Australian conference covering talks about software development for open source languages and projects; regardless of operating system. It features keynotes from [TheDamian|Damian Conway] and [merlyn|Randal Schwartz], tutorials from [merlyn|Randal] and talks from [cog|José Castro], [adamk|Adam Kennedy], [pjf|Paul Fenwick] and other Perlmonks. </p> <code> 5th December 2006 Day of tutorials 6th - 8th December 2006 Technical Programme </code> <p> The conference location is Monash University Caulfield Campus, Melbourne. </p> <readmore> <p> Each day will have 3 streams of talks over the three days with combined keynotes at the start and end of each day. Morning and afternoon teas, and lunch will be provided. A conference dinner will be held on the night of the 6th. </p> <p> Our tutorial program is included below: </p> <code> Room 1 Room 2 9:00am Cascading Style Sheets Open Source Python GIS Hacks 12:30pm Lunch Lunch 1:30pm Test Web Apps with Perl Drupal Tutorial 3:00pm Afternoon tea Afternoon tea 3:30pm Intro to Perl Template::Toolkit Large Scale Web Apps </code> <p> For more information on what each tutorial covers please visit: [http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/tutorials.html] </p> <p> The technical program includes: </p> <ul> <li>"Obfuscation, Golfing and Secret Operators in Perl" by [cog|José Castro], Team Leader at log </li> <li>"Mono - Migrating from Windows to Linux" by Dr. Trent Mifsud, Lecturer for the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University </li> <li>"Data Warehousing HOWTO" by Evan Leybourn, Director of Looking Glass Solutions </li> <li>"J2EE and Open Source Innovation: The Relationship between Open Source and Standards" by Keith Pitty, Senior Consultant at Cirrus Technologies Pty Ltd </li> <li>"Enterprise PHP" by Thorsten Rinne, Software Developer at Mayflower GmbH / ThinkPHP </li> <li>"A Rails/Django Comparison" by Alan Green, Cirrus Technologies and Ben Askins, Sterland Computing </li> </ul> <p> For a full list please visit: [http://osdc2006.cgpublisher.com/session_descriptions.html] </p> <p> Conference keynote presentors include [TheDamian|Damian Conway], [merlyn|Randal L. Schwartz], Richard Farnsworth and Anthony Baxter. </p> <p> We look forward to sharing this great conference with you. </p> </readmore>