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The Open Source Developers' Conference (OSDC) was a non-profit conference for developers of open-source software. It was started in Australia in 2004, and later expanded to Israel, Taiwan, Malaysia, France and Norway, where conferences began in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2009 and 2015, respectively. No further conferences have been held since 2015.
The conference was open to talks about software developed for any platform or operating system so long as the talk was of interest to open-source developers. Talks about closed source projects which used open-source languages or open-source projects which used close source languages were accepted. Talks have covered languages such as Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Groovy, Scala, Java, Mono and C. Other talks have covered open-source tools such as databases and revision control systems or meta-topics such as talk presentation hints, and working with others.
The conference was founded by Scott Penrose and first organised by members of the Melbourne Perl Mongers group in Melbourne, Australia in 2004. Originally it had been intended to be a YAPC-style (Perl) conference, but after discussions with the Melbourne PHP Users Group it was expanded to include PHP and Python talks. Following the 2004 conference's success, Scott Penrose created the Open Source Developers' Club Association to encourage programmers of other languages to also be involved in running the conference. At first this was an entirely Melbourne based organisation, but after the 2005 conference, it expanded to include members from elsewhere in Australia. At the end of 2006, control of running the conference for 2007 was given to a group in Brisbane, with the Open Source Developers' Club Association committee members taking the role of overseers.
In 2013 the Open Source Developers' Club Association awarded the running of the event to a team in Auckland New Zealand, further expanding the conference with an Australasian focus.
| Conference site | Dates | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSDC2015 Australia | 27–29 October 2015 | Hobart, Australia | Wrest Point |
| OSDC2014 Australia | 4–7 November 2014 | Gold Coast, Australia | Griffith University |
| OSDC2013 NZ | 21–21 October 2013 | Auckland, New Zealand | Langham Hotel, Auckland |
| OSDC2012 Australia | 4–7 December 2012 | Sydney | University of Technology Sydney |
| OSDC2011 Australia | 14–18 November 2011 | Canberra, Australia | Australian National University |
| OSDC2010 Australia | 24–26 November 2010 | Melbourne, Australia | Abbotsford Convent |
| OSDC2009 Australia | 25–27 November 2009 | Brisbane, Australia | Bardon Conference Center |
| OSDC2008 Australia | 2–5 December 2008 | Sydney | Sydney Masonic Centre |
| OSDC2007 Australia | 26–29 November 2007 | Brisbane, Australia | Royal on the Park Hotel |
| OSDC2006 Australia | 5–8 December 2006 | Melbourne, Australia | Monash University Caulfield campus |
| OSDC2005 Australia | 5–7 December 2005 | Melbourne, Australia | Monash University Caulfield campus |
| OSDC2004 Australia | 1–3 December 2004 | Melbourne, Australia | Monash University Caulfield campus |
| Year | Presenter | Paper title |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Scott Rippon | Usability, user-centered design (UCD) and FOSS |
| Conference site | Dates | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSDC2006 Israel | 26–28 February 2006 | Netanya, Israel | Netanya Academic College |
| Conference site | Dates | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSDC.tw 2014 | 11–12 April 2014 | Taipei, Taiwan | Building for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Nangang District |
| OSDC.tw 2013 | 19–20 April 2013 | Taipei, Taiwan | Building for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Nangang District |
| OSDC.tw 2012 | 14–15 April 2012 | Taipei, Taiwan | Building for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Nangang District |
| OSDC.tw 2011 | 26–27 March 2011 | Taipei, Taiwan | Building for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Nangang District |
| OSDC.tw 2010 | 24–25 April 2010 | Taipei, Taiwan | Building for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Nangang District |
| OSDC.tw 2009 | 18–19 April 2009 | Taipei, Taiwan | Microsoft Taiwan Corporation, Xinyi District |
| OSDC.tw 2008 | 12–13 April 2008 | Taipei, Taiwan | School Of Continuing Education Chinese Culture University, Zhongzheng District |
| OSDC.tw 2007 | 14–15 April 2007 | Taipei, Taiwan | School Of Continuing Education Chinese Culture University, Zhongzheng District |
| OSDC Taiwan 2006 | 8–9 April 2006 | Taipei, Taiwan | School Of Continuing Education Chinese Culture University, Zhongzheng District |
| Conference site | Dates | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSDC.my 2014 | 27 May 2014 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Berjaya Time Square, Kuala Lumpur |
| OSDC.my 2010 | 29 Jun – 1 July 2010 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Berjaya Time Square, Kuala Lumpur |
| OSDC.my 2009 | 31 May – 3 June 2009 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Berjaya Time Square, Kuala Lumpur |
| Conference site | Dates | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSDC.fr 2013 | 4–5 October 2013 | Paris, France | Montrouge Beffroi |
| OSDC.fr 2012 | 12–13 October 2012 | Paris, France | Eurosites George V |
| OSDC.fr 2011 | 23–24 September 2011 | Paris, France | Eurosites George V |
| OSDC.fr 2010 | 9–10 October 2010 | Paris, France | Carrefour Numérique, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie |
| OSDC.fr 2009 | 2–3 October 2009 | Paris, France | Carrefour Numérique, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie |
| Conference site | Dates | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSDC.no | 8–10 May 2015 | Oslo, Norway | University of Oslo |
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