Hi fellow python devotee's, Book by THIS FRIDAY to take advantage of earlybird pricing and be part of the "best" open source developers conference of the year.
http://www.osdc.com.au/2008/registration/index.html?ebc=1 The facts: 31st October Earlybird registration closing 2nd December Google Hackathon 3rd - 5th December Conference Program 3rd December Conference Dinner Where is it: SMC Conference and Function Centre 66 Goulburn St Sydney NSW 2000 Australia The Main Conference The Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 is a conference run by open source developers, for developers and business people. This year we have talks covering Apache, Java, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Testing and much more. From a Python perspective there are a wide range of talks including: * Python Language Internals: From Source to Execution * Extending Nagios with Python plugins * Writing an SQL parser with PyParsing * The PyPy Project And You! * Game development with pyglet 1.2 * Python's unittest module: an underappreciated gem Anthony Baxter will entertain us with a dinner keynote, and he will also be giving his annual "State of Python" talk during the conference. Our other keynote speakers this year are: * Larry Wall, the creator of Perl * Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager for Google * Anthony Baxter, Python Evangelist * Pia Waugh, Consultant, Waugh Partners * Andrew Tridgell, Founder, Samba Team Check out the program for more information: http://www.osdc.com.au/2008/papers/index.html?ebc=1 Google Hackathon The day before the main conference, there will be an optional event. The Google Hackathon will consist of 3 coding workshops during the day with attendance limited to a maximum of 100 people/workshop. To register for any of the workshops, you must have registered for the 3 day OSDC 2008 main conference. Thanks to our sponsors: Google, Corporate Express, Sun Microsystems, Strategic Data, Obsidian Consulting Group, IBM, Zacware/Freeway, ACS, Net Logistics, GROX, UTBox, Internode, Linux Magazine Regards Mark Rees OSDC 2008 Committee http://www.osdc.com.au/2008/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
