The Open Source Developers' Conference, 2005

Monday, 05 December 2005
08:45	Welcome
09:00	Making Things Move: Finding Inappropriate Uses For Scripting Languages (Oxer, Jonathan)

09:50	What's New In Python (Baxter, Anthony)	Perl, POE, Peers and Paranoia (Zangerl, Alexander)	Apache's Derby (Saldanha, Savio)

10:25	WSGI - Gateway or Glue? (Rees, Mark)	Safe.pm Considered Harmful (Pickett, Deborah)	Open Source Gliding Software (Penrose, Mr Scott)
10:55	Morning Tea (1/2 hour)
11:25	Rapid Game Development with Python (Jones, Richard)	Parsing, Analysing and Manipulating Perl (without perl) (Kennedy, Adam)	Java Development with NetBeans(TM) (Coldrick, David)

12:15	Building GUI Applications with PythonCard (Todd, Andy)	Robust Grammar Development with Parse::RecDescent and Test::More (Eriksen, Leif)	Six Things Groovy Can Do For You (Green, Alan)
12:45	Lunch (1 hour)
13:45	Conference Presentation Mind Control (Fenwick, Paul)	Monitoring Anything with Nagios (Burgess, Chris)	Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (Penrose, Amanda Jane)

14:20	It's Good to be Greedy: Keeping a Straight Face around Regular Expressions (Balbo, Ben)	Modifying and Integrating PostScript Systems (Herbert, Malcolm)	Choose your weapon: PHP and mysqli, PEAR:DB, and PDO. (Thomson, Laura)

14:55	Integrating very disparate applications (Alcorn, Becky)	Manipulating IOS from Linux: Keeping Cisco Switches Consistant (Oldfield, Kim)	PHP: It's Your Data (Jones, Christopher)
15:25	Afternoon Tea (1/2 hour)
15:55	Open Source Flash Development (Edwards, Andrew)	Discussions of the Semantic Web (Gollings, Gus)	Large Scale Webapps: Devteam Infrastructure (Oxer, Jonathan)

16:30	Building Custom Linux Distributions (Milligan, Alan)	Zaltana (Penrose, Mr Scott)	Linux, are we more secure than our rivals? (Iverach, Trevor)

17:05	Oils aint Oils: A comparison of some open source and closed source databases. (Saldanha, Savio)

18:00	Conference Dinner

Tuesday, 06 December 2005
08:45	Welcome
09:00	Instrumentation and Control Systems Used on the Australian Synchrotron (Farnsworth, Richard)

09:50	Towards best practise development: Developing standards and procedures for consistent results (Bailey, Nathan)	Using documentation for automatic code generation (Blackwood, Cameron)	(Ab)using the /unix pipeline pattern/ and YAML structured data to make the automation of Microsoft Powerpoint presentations (nearly) bearable (Clarke, Adam)

10:25	Release Early, Release Often: What Does It Really Mean? (Palmer, Matt)	Using Python and XML To Make Earthquakes and Tsunamis: A Tour of Escript and Modelframe (Thorne, Elspeth)	Creating Perl Modules for Data Quality (Ryan, Kim)
10:55	Morning Tea (1/2 hour)
11:25	So you want to start a small business? (Fenwick, Paul)	Using CSS to create attractive, useable and accessible websites. (Penrose, Amanda Jane)	Zinc: A New Modelling Language (Rafeh, Reza)

12:15	Enterprise Open Source... And The Rest: Managing mixed source solutions in large scale organisations (Bailey, Nathan)	An Introduction to DITA: The Darwin Information Typing Architecture Explained (Pickett, Deborah)	Open Source ORM tool (Guthrie, Stuart)
12:45	Lunch (1 hour)
13:45	Lightning Talks
15:15	Afternoon Tea (1/2 hour)
15:45	Python JDBC driver (Paolini, Marco)	Teaching the Open Source Way (Thomson, Laura)	PHP Security (Welling, Luke)

16:20	MySQL 5.0 - What's new? (Mulcahy, Mr Lachlan)	Social networking for fun and profit (Richardson, Ms Jacinta Alice)	Commercial Open Source Software using PHP (Leybourn, Evan)

16:55	Introduction to Pugs: Perl 6 in Haskell (Tang, Autrijus)

Wednesday, 07 December 2005
09:00	Mozilla XForms: An Introduction (Yank, Kevin)

09:50	Enabling Mission criticality via Java, PHP and Open source Agent based technologies. (Chandon, Luce)	Starbust: Rapidly Developing and Deploying Web services using Apache, Axis and Python (Saldanha, Savio)	Visualising Relationships Between Web Templating Components: Using HTML::Mason (Carpenter, Hamish)

10:25	Learning Haskell (Tang, Autrijus)	Test Driven Development Demonstration: Rules to the game of Nim (Cropley, Bruce)	Open Space
10:55	Morning Tea (1/2 hour)
11:25	Life's Pretty Straight Without Twisted: A beginner's guide to the Twisted framework. (Warren, Justin)	Programming the Gumstix (Penrose, Mr Scott)	Open Space

12:00	The Nufox remote XUL toolkit (Stebbing, Timothy J)	A Security Framework for Mobile Devices (Smith, Sarah)	Open Space

12:35	Learning Teaching Perl: The Difficulties of Teaching Perl to University Students (Pickett, Deborah)	Python in Linux embedded solutions (Angeli, Dott Giovanni)	Open Space
13:05	Lunch (1 hour)
14:05	Lightning Talks
15:35	Afternoon Tea (1/2 hour)
16:05	Untitled keynote (Waugh, Jeff)
16:50	Farewell

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