Hi.
On Friday 04 July 2008, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> As you might have noticed after the successful OSDC in 2006
> I got so busy with work that in 2007 I could only organize a one day
> Perl Workshop right in the last minute. This year seem to pass without a
> conference but in the beginning of 2009 I'd like to have another
> OSDC in Israel.
>
> If you happened to forget or never heard about it then OSDC stands for
> Open Source Developers' Conference. It originates from Australia just as
> the kangaroo and the koala bear.
>
> In Israel it was the natural enlargement of the YAPCs
> (Yet Another Perl Conferences) that were held since 2003.
>
> In the previous OSDC in 2006 there were about 200 visitors
> including Larry Wall, developer of Perl and Audrey Tang,
> developer of Pugs.
> They could select from about
> 47.3% of Perl talks as the Perl community had been quite
> organized in the previous years already
> 33.1% of Python talks as they just started to meet before the
> conference
> 2 Ruby and
> 0 PHP presentations.
>
> Since then the Perl community got more silent.
> The Python mailing list and meetings have faded away.
Actually there was some activity on the Python-IL mailing list.
In any case, I am willing to help with the organisation of the conference.
It's just that I still think having a separate track for each of Perl, Python,
Ruby, and PHP as you proposed in the previous attempt is:
1. Divide and Conquer.
2. Does not give enough room for C/C++, Java/.NET, JavaScript, Lua/Io/etc.,
Haskell/O'Caml, Scala/Clojure/Bo/other-JVM-or-CLR-langs, etc.
I suggest selecting topics like "QA and test automation" or "GUI programming"
and then allocating presentations in each of them.
Anyway, I'm willing to help. I can help in publicity, logistics, etc.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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