{"id":223,"date":"2007-03-21T16:29:18","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T06:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=223"},"modified":"2007-03-21T16:29:18","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T06:29:18","slug":"open-source-developers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/21\/open-source-developers-conference","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Developers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Arjen&#8217;s already <a href=\"http:\/\/arjen-lentz.livejournal.com\/87378.html\">mentioned<\/a>, Brisbane has been selected as the lucky host city for OSDC 2007. Since then, we&#8217;ve confirmed the venue and dates as the 26th-29th of November at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalonthepark.com.au\/\">Royal on the Park<\/a>, and we&#8217;ve had one local company signing up as a sponsor within 24 hours of sending the sponsor pack out &#8212; so like Arjen said, if you&#8217;re interested in supporting or being associated with the conference, please don&#8217;t delay getting in touch!<\/p>\n<p>As this is the first year it&#8217;s run outside of Melbourne, we&#8217;re still in the process of working with the past organisers to figure out how to handle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osdc.com.au\/\">the website<\/a> and such, but at last count we were expecting to get a website up and the CFP out on the first of April or so; we&#8217;re hoping to have a (very!) preliminary schedule up and registrations open in June or July.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to say, I&#8217;m really excited about being involved in this &#8212; I haven&#8217;t really being paying as much attention as I&#8217;d like to have to the Brisbane open source scene, and that&#8217;s meant I&#8217;ve pretty much been seeing the same faces at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humbug.org.au\/\">HUMBUG<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lca2007.linux.org.au\/\">linux.conf.au<\/a> &#8212; and while that&#8217;s great, getting to meet some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/php.meetup.com\/46\/\">Brisbane PHP folks<\/a> is awesome, and seeing it serve as the impetus for Stephen Thorne and NetBox Blue to start up a <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.humbug.org.au\/humbug-general\/2007-03\/msg00049.html\">Brisbane Python User Group<\/a> is pretty sweet too &#8212; and if we end up with something like a local chapter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osdc.com.au\/osdclub\/index.html\">OSDClub<\/a> that&#8217;ll be beyond cool!<\/p>\n<p>So thanks to the Melbourne OSDC team, and in particular Jacinta and Scott for your faith in us and your support, and I&#8217;m sure I speak for all the Brisbane volunteers in saying we can&#8217;t wait to blow your socks off in November :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Arjen&#8217;s already mentioned, Brisbane has been selected as the lucky host city for OSDC 2007. Since then, we&#8217;ve confirmed the venue and dates as the 26th-29th of November at the Royal on the Park, and we&#8217;ve had one local company signing up as a sponsor within 24 hours of sending the sponsor pack out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}