For the last year I’ve been involved in organising this years Open Source Developers Conference with a really great bunch of people. This years conference is almost here leaving me both excited and glad that we’ve made it. On Tuesday we’re hosting the Google Hackfest Day (free to OSDC attendees who registered for the hackfest too) with the conference itself running from Wednesday to Friday. If you’re in Sydney and into Open Source then you should really consider attending.

This year our keynote speakers (sorted by last name) are:

• Anthony Baxter (Python release manager)
• Chris DiBona (Google Open Source Manager)
• Andrew Tridgell (rsync, Samba)
• Larry Wall (Creator of Perl, patch and rn)
• Pia Waugh (Waugh Partners & OLPC Australia)

The full program is also available online if you still need a reason to attend.

This years Open Source Developers Conference finished yesterday. A group of us have been asked to put together a proposal to the Open Source Developers Club to host it in Sydney next year. If you’re interested in being involved, as an organiser or helper, then send me an email ASAP. We’re going to start discussing it next week so that we can have the organising committee and proposal ready by mid-December.

Last night I received an email from the OSDC Program Committee to let me know that my Data Access with PHP Data Objects proposal had been accepted. While I’ve done a number of presentations at SydPHP this will be my first one at a major conference

Since it started OSDC has been held in Melbourne. At LCA 2007 there were rumors that a group from Brisbane were trying to move it there. According to a post on Arjen’s blog they’ve been successful. Congratulations to everyone involved.

Perhaps 2008 can be in Sydney?