MSC Malaysia OSCONF 2009

In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from May 31 - June 3 there will be the inaugural MSC Malaysia OSCONF. This conference is designed to bring together Government, Business, Open Source Developer and User communities to showcase and expand Open Source's contribution to the IT industry and socio-economy. The conference program consists of a one day hackathon, followed by the three day main conference. The main conference has three tracks:

• Executive Download - Panels and presentations to introduce Government and Business to Open Source.
  
• Developer - Modelled on OSDC, presentations by Open Source developers for developers.
  
• Community - Presentations for users of Open Source software.
  

The tentative schedule can be viewed here. There is a broad range of international and Malaysian speakers.

As a developer who spends some time each year in Malaysia, and has seen some of the interesting things the Open Source community is doing there, I would recommend this event as a great reason to visit Malaysia.

OSDC 2008 Earlybird Registration is now open!

Earlybird Registration for The Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 is now open.

OSDC 2008 is a conference run by open source developers, for developers and business people. It covers numerous programming languages across a rangeof operating systems, and related topics such as business processes, licensing, and strategy. Talks vary from introductory pieces through to the deeply technical. This year we have an exciting selection of presenters andkeynote speakers including:

* Larry Wall, the creator of Perl
* Chris DiBona, Open Source Progams Manager for Google
* Andrew Tridgell, Founder, Samba Team
* Anthony Baxter, Python Evangelist
* Pia Waugh, Consultant, Waugh Partners

Check out the draft program: http://www.osdc.com.au/2008/papers/

Please visit http://www.osdc.com.au/2008/registration/ to register.
Earlybird registration closes 27th October, 2008.

For more information about this event, please visit: http://www.osdc.com.au/.

OSDC 2008 - Sydney - Call for Papers

The Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 is a conference run by open source developers, for developers and business people. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems, and related topics such as business processes, licensing, and strategy. Talks vary from introductory pieces through to the deeply technical. It is a great opportunity to meet, share, and learn with like-minded individuals.

This year, the conference will be held in Sydney, Australia during
the first week of December (1st - 5th). If you are an Open Source
maintainer, developer or user, the organising committee would
encourage you to submit a talk proposal on open source tools,
solutions, languages or technologies you are working with.

For more details and to submit your proposal(s), goto:
http://osdc.com.au/2008/papers/cfp.html

If you have any questions or require assistance with your
submission, please don't hesitate to ask!

We recognise the importance of Open Source
in providing a medium for collaboration between individuals,
researchers, business and government. In recognition of this and
ensure a high standard of presentations, we intend to peer-review
all submitted papers.

OSDC 2008 Sydney (Australia) - Key Program Dates:

30 Jun - Initial proposals (short abstract) due
21 Jul - Proposal acceptance
15 Sep - Accepted paper submissions
13 Oct - Reviews completed
27 Oct - Final paper submission cutoff

For all information, contacts and updates, see the OSDC conference
web site at http://osdc.com.au/2008/

Also if you are interested in sponsoring, please see:
http://www.osdc.com.au/2008/sponsors/opportunities.html

My OSDC 2007 talks

Today I gave my two talks at OSDC.

This morning I gave a talk on web testing using twill and selenium remote control. A pdf of the slides can be downloaded:

Testing Web Applications with Scripting Languages

And this afternoon I spoke about Moonlight, the Mono implementation of Silverlight.

Moonlight - Shiny, Pretty Things with XML?

I had intended to blog about the various OSDC sessions I have attended, but thanks to the lazy web, Alan Green has already done it for me

November 28, a busy day for me

Just been notified by the OSDC 2007 Program Committee that my two presentations are on the same day.

11:00-11:30 Testing Web Applications with Scripting Languages

14:30-15:00 Moonlight - Shiny, Pretty Things with XML?

The complete conference program can be viewed here. So if you want to spend an interesting 3-4 days in Brisbane mixing with open source developers, early bird registration is open until October 14th. Then full price registration will be available until October 31th.

Submitted a talk proposal for OSDC 2007

Yesterday I submitted my talk proposal for OSDC. If accepted, the talk will be about web testing using scripting languages.

The submission deadline for proposals is 30 June, so why not submit one as well. So in no particular order, Alan, Keith or Ben take this as me rattling your cages.

OSDC 2007 Call For Papers

This year's Open Source Developers Conference will be in Brisbane at the Royal on the Park Hotel (opposite the City Botanical Gardens). On their website I see that the "Call For Papers" is now open.

The key dates are:

Submission deadline 30th June 2007
Proposal acceptance 31st July 2007
Submission deadline 31st August 2007
OSDC 2007 Tutorials 26th November 2007
OSDC 2007 Conference 27th - 29th November 2007

Decision time again, do I want to submit a paper this year and if I do, what will it be about.

OSDC 2007 will be in Brisbane

Arjen Lentz announced today that Brisbane will be the host city for this years OSDC. Time to start thinking about possible paper topics again.

Update

Thanks for reminding me Keith. Once the actual conference venue is announced, we will also need to find a venue for the nightly Beer BOF's.