Look around this conference. This might be the one we want to copy here in Israel for the conference in February.
If you wold like to help in the organization, please let me know so I can see if we have enough manpower to do a 2 or 3 days long conference. Gabor ---------- Forwarded message ---------- OSDC (Open Source Developers' Conference) is a grass-roots/low cost conference in the style of a YAPC or PyCon. It's organised for developers, by developers, and we're looking for papers on open source languages, technologies and tools. The conference will be held in Melbourne (Monash University's Caulfield Campus) from the 5th til the 7th of December, 2005. Last years conference had about 160 people and around 60 papers on a range of topics - see http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/2004.html for a list. This list might also be useful if you're looking for ideas on what sort of thing would be appropriate. To submit a proposal, get yourself to the www.osdc.com.au website, and hit the 'Call for papers' link, or go directly to the paper submission website at http://osdc2005.cgpublisher.com/cfp.html Key Dates: Proposals deadline 19th August 2005 Proposal acceptance 12th September 2005 Submission deadline 28th October 2005 Final version for proceedings 15th November 2005 Conference 5th - 7th December 2005 Please feel free to pass this on to any other people or groups you think might be interested in submitting a paper! thanks Hope to see you there!
