Open Source Developers' Conference
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The Open Source Developers' Conference (OSDC) is a non-profit conference for developer
s of open source software
.
The conference is open to talks about software developed for any platform or operating system
so long as the talk will be of interest to open source developers. Talks about closed source projects which used open source languages or open source projects which used close source languages are accepted. Talks cover languages such as Perl
, Python
, PHP
, Ruby
, Groovy, Scala, Java
, Mono
and C
. Other talks may cover open source tools such as databases and revision control systems or meta-topics such as talk presentation hints, and working with others.
group in Melbourne
, Australia
in 2004. Originally it had been intended to be a YAPC-style (Perl) conference, but after discussions with the Melbourne PHP Users Group it was expanded to include PHP and Python talks. Following the 2004 conference success, Scott Penrose created the Open Source Developers' Club Association to encourage programmers of other languages to also be involved in running the conference. At first this was an entirely Melbourne based organisation, but after the 2005 conference, it expanded to include members from elsewhere in Australia. At the end of 2006, control of running the conference for 2007 was given to a group in Brisbane
, with the Open Source Developers' Club Association committee members taking the role of overseers.
The OSDC idea has been taken up in Israel
, Taiwan
, Malaysia and France
, where conferences began in 2006, 2007 and 2009 respectively.
Software developer
A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process. Their work includes researching, designing, developing, and testing software. A software developer may take part in design, computer programming, or software project management...
s of open source software
Open-source software
Open-source software is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.Open...
.
The conference is open to talks about software developed for any platform or operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
so long as the talk will be of interest to open source developers. Talks about closed source projects which used open source languages or open source projects which used close source languages are accepted. Talks cover languages such as Perl
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
, Python
Python (programming language)
Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...
, PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
, Ruby
Ruby (programming language)
Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was first developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto...
, Groovy, Scala, Java
Java (programming language)
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
, Mono
Mono (software)
Mono, pronounced , is a free and open source project led by Xamarin to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime....
and C
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....
. Other talks may cover open source tools such as databases and revision control systems or meta-topics such as talk presentation hints, and working with others.
History
The conference was founded by Scott Penrose and first organised by members of the Melbourne Perl MongersPerl Mongers
Perl Mongers is part of The Perl Foundation and provides services to user groups for the Perl programming language.Perl Mongers was created in 1998 as a stand-alone organization by brian d foy who formed the first Perl users group, the New York Perl Mongers, or NY.pm, in 1997 at the First O'Reilly...
group in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
in 2004. Originally it had been intended to be a YAPC-style (Perl) conference, but after discussions with the Melbourne PHP Users Group it was expanded to include PHP and Python talks. Following the 2004 conference success, Scott Penrose created the Open Source Developers' Club Association to encourage programmers of other languages to also be involved in running the conference. At first this was an entirely Melbourne based organisation, but after the 2005 conference, it expanded to include members from elsewhere in Australia. At the end of 2006, control of running the conference for 2007 was given to a group in Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, with the Open Source Developers' Club Association committee members taking the role of overseers.
The OSDC idea has been taken up in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, Malaysia and France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, where conferences began in 2006, 2007 and 2009 respectively.
Locations
| Conference site | Dates | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSDC2011 Australia | 14 November - 18 November 2011 | Canberra Canberra Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne... , Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Australian National University Australian National University The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students... |
| OSDC2010 Australia | 24 November - 26 November 2010 | Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater... , Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Abbotsford Convent Abbotsford Convent The Abbotsford Convent is located in Abbotsford, Victoria, an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The Convent is in a bend of the Yarra River west of Yarra Bend Park, with the Collingwood Children's Farm to its north and east, the river and parklands to its south and housing to its... |
| OSDC2009 Australia | 25 November - 27 November 2009 | Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of... , Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Bardon Conference Center |
| OSDC2008 Australia | 2 December - 5 December 2008 | Sydney Sydney Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people... , Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Sydney Masonic Centre SMC -Technology:* Secure multiparty computation, a cryptography problem* Secure Managed Client, a centrally managed discless solution for PCs* SMC connector, used in radio-frequency circuits* Sliding mode control* Self-modifying code* SmartMedia Card... |
| OSDC2007 Australia | 26 November - 29 November 2007 | Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of... , Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Royal on the Park Hotel |
| OSDC2006 Australia | 5 December - 8 December 2006 | Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater... , Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Monash University Monash University Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL.... Caulfield campus Monash University, Caulfield campus Monash University, Caulfield campus is a campus of Monash University located in Caulfield, which is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. The university comprises 13,400 students of which 52.8% are female and 57.1% of students are enrolled in undergraduate courses... |
| 5 December - 7 December 2005 | Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater... , Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Monash University Monash University Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL.... Caulfield campus Monash University, Caulfield campus Monash University, Caulfield campus is a campus of Monash University located in Caulfield, which is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. The university comprises 13,400 students of which 52.8% are female and 57.1% of students are enrolled in undergraduate courses... |
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| 1 December - 3 December 2004 | Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater... , Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Monash University Monash University Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL.... Caulfield campus Monash University, Caulfield campus Monash University, Caulfield campus is a campus of Monash University located in Caulfield, which is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. The university comprises 13,400 students of which 52.8% are female and 57.1% of students are enrolled in undergraduate courses... |
Keynotes
- 2011
- Senator Kate Lundy [Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural affairs]: Openness in Government: from data to crowdsourcing
- Jonathon Oxer: Freedom for Atoms!
- Damian Conway: Fun with Dead Languages
- Brian Catto [Director of Architecture and Emerging Technologies, AGIMO]: Open Source Software and the Australian Government
- Tony Beal [Deputy General Counsel - Commercial, Australian Government Solicitor]: Legal Trips, Traps and Solutions for Open Source Software Developers
- 2010
- Ingy dot Net: C'Dent, the Acmeism and Everyone
- Noirin Shirley: Baby Steps into Open Source - Incubation and Mentoring at Apache
- Michael Schwern: How to Report a Bug
- Damian Conway: Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces...Made Easy!
- 2009
- Karen Pauley: Understanding Volunteers
- Marty Pauly:
- Dhanji Prasanna: Google Wave
- 2008
- Anthony Baxter:
- Chris DiBona:
- Andrew Tridgell:
- Larry Wall:
- Pia Waugh:
- 2007:
- Rusty RussellRusty RussellPaul "Rusty" Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate.- Software development :Russell wrote the packet filtering systems ipchains and netfilter/iptables in the Linux operating system kernel...
: C: A Humbling Language (opening keynote) - Rasmus LerdorfRasmus LerdorfRasmus Lerdorf is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship and is most notable as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He authored the first two versions...
: Exploring the Broken Web - Paul Fenwick : An Illustrated History of Failure (dinner keynote)
- Jonathan Oxer : Software Freedom: Pragmatic Idealism?
- Nathan Torkington : Software For The Future (closing keynote)
- Rusty Russell
- 2006:
- Randal L. SchwartzRandal L. SchwartzRandal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:...
: Free software - A look back, a look ahead (opening keynote) - Damian ConwayDamian ConwayDamian Conway is a prominent member of the Perl community, a proponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University....
: The Da Vinci Codebase (dinner keynote) - Richard Farnsworth : Open Source SynchrotronAustralian SynchrotronThe Australian Synchrotron is a 3 GeV synchrotron radiation facility built in Melbourne, Victoria and opened on 31 July 2007.The circular building was designed by Architectus in conjunction with Thiess, while the lattice design was performed substantially by Professor John Boldeman.The Synchrotron...
- Anthony Baxter : futurepython
- Scott Penrose: Zaltana.org (closing keynote)
- Randal L. Schwartz
- 2005
- Anthony Baxter: How to give a good presentation (dinner keynote)
- Audrey TangAudrey TangAudrey Tang is a Taiwanese free software programmer, who has been described as one of the "ten greats of Taiwanese computing."-Biography:...
: Introduction to Pugs: Perl 6 in Haskell - Jonathan Oxer: Making things Move: Finding Inappropriate Uses for Scripting Languages
- Savio Saldanha: Oils aint Oils: A comparison of some open source and closed source databases
- PiaPia WaughPia Waugh is a policy adviser working for Australian Senator Kate Lundy. Waugh is known for her former work as an Australian free software advocate...
and Jeff WaughJeff WaughJeff Waugh is an Australian free software and open source software developer. He is a consultant for Waugh Partners and is known for his past prominence in the GNOME and Ubuntu projects and communities.- Career :...
: "Untitled Keynote" (closing keynote)
- 2004
- Damian ConwayDamian ConwayDamian Conway is a prominent member of the Perl community, a proponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University....
: Perl 6: OO Made Insanely Great (opening keynote) - Con Zymaris : Using the Open Source Methodology to Make Money from Your Software (dinner keynote)
- Nathan Torkington: Open Source Trends
- Anthony Baxter : "Scripting Language" My Arse: Using Python for Voice over IP
- Luke Welling: MySQL 2005
- Damian ConwayDamian ConwayDamian Conway is a prominent member of the Perl community, a proponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University....
: Sufficiently Advanced Technology (closing keynote)
- Damian Conway
Papers
- Papers from OSDC Australia 2007
- Papers from OSDC Australia 2006
- Papers from OSDC Australia 2005
- Papers from OSDC Australia 2004
Best presentation
| Year | Presenter | Paper title |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Scott Rippon | Usability, user-centered design (UCD) and FOSS |
Locations
| Conference site | Dates | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSDC2006 Israel | 26 February - 28 February 2006 | Netanya Netanya Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the... , Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... |
Netanya Academic College Netanya Academic College Netanya Academic College is a private college based in Netanya, Israel. Established in 1994 by a team from Bar-Ilan University, it has an enrolment of around 4,000 undergraduate students... |
| OSDC2009 Israel | [TBD], 2009 | [TBD], Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... |
[TBD] |
Locations
| Conference site | Dates | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSDC.tw 2008 | 12 April - 13 April 2008 | Taipei, Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following... |
School Of Continuing Education Chinese Culture University, Zhongzheng District |
| OSDC.tw 2007 | 14 April - 15 April 2007 | Taipei, Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following... |
School Of Continuing Education Chinese Culture University, Zhongzheng District |
Locations
| Conference site | Dates | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSDC.my 2010 | 29 Jun - 1 July 2010 | Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million... , Malaysia |
Berjaya Time Square, Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million... |
| OSDC.my 2009 | 31 May - 3 Jun 2009 | Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million... , Malaysia |
Berjaya Time Square, Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million... |
Locations
| Conference site | Dates | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSDC.fr 2011 | 23 Sep - 24 Sep 2011 | Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... , France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
Eurosites George V, Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... |
| OSDC.fr 2010 | 9 Oct - 10 Oct 2010 | Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... , France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
Carrefour Numérique, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie The Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie is the biggest science museum in Europe. Located in Parc de la Villette in Paris, France, it is at the heart of the Cultural Center of Science, Technology and Industry , a center promoting science and science culture.About five million people visit the Cité... , Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... |
| OSDC.fr 2009 | 2 Oct - 3 Oct 2009 | Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... , France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
Carrefour Numérique, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie The Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie is the biggest science museum in Europe. Located in Parc de la Villette in Paris, France, it is at the heart of the Cultural Center of Science, Technology and Industry , a center promoting science and science culture.About five million people visit the Cité... , Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... |