Sure, OSDC registrations will remain open, but it’ll cost you $30 extra from November 1st and you won’t get a t-shirt… so get in quick for the better deal! Remember the evil geckos… Only $295 for the full conference including the conf dinner on Wednesday evening, and a conference t-shirt. Few conferences are that cheap…. [...]
So I was waiting for Leopard to come out before getting a new MacBook (had to hand the other one back when I left, of course). It’s just less hassle to not have to upgrade the OS to a major new version… and Oct 26 appears to be the day that Leopard is released. Must [...]
Cool, it appears I’ve been nominated for the 2007 Queensland Pearcey State Award – that’s quite an honour! The Pearcey Foundation takes its name from Dr Trevor Pearcey who in 1949 led the team that designed and built Australia’s first digital computer, CSIRAC, and which was in fact the world’s fourth digital computer ever to [...]
(photo by Colin Charles @ the Melbourne MySQL user group meeting last week)
The Open Source Developers’ Conference 2007 Brisbane program schedule is now online! Registrations are coming along nicely, but it’s a bit too early to project possible total numbers. The organisers have decided that if you register after October 31st, you don’t get a conference T-shirt. Nanana. But seriously…. Elspeth needs time to get them printed, [...]
From my good friend and anti-spam expert Tobias Eggendorfer, a note that a call for papers is now open for Safety and Security 2008 in Saarbrücken, Germany (2-4 April 2008). Sicherheit 2008 (the German name) is a conference on security and safety in computer science. Its official web page is available at http://www.sicherheit2008.de/. This conference [...]
As I mentioned in my earlier post (http://openquery.com/blog/osdc-2007-earlybird-registration-now-open), the earlybird registration for the Open Source Developers’ Conference 2007 in Brisbane (26-29 November) is only until 14th of October. The earlybird ticket is $275 for the main conference (including dinner), whereas the main conference ticket after that will cost $325. So you can save an easy [...]