<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi, </font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">There is now less than 2 weeks to go until the Open Source Developers Conference (<a href="http://osdc.com.au/" target="_blank">http://OSDC.com.au</a>) is being held in Canberra (Nov 16-18). </font></span><font size="2" face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We've got a great lineup with keynotes from Senator Kate Lundy (Openness in Government), Jon Oxer (Freedom for Atoms) and Damian Conway (Fun with Dead Languages), plus Brian Catto from <a href="http://agimo.gov.au/" target="_blank">AGIMO.gov.au</a> and Tony Beal from <a href="http://ags.gov.au/" target="_blank">AGS.gov.au</a>. </font><div>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We've got business and technical talks, workshops & mini-confs on topics including Java, PHP, Python, Perl & Go as well as on agile project management, business tools and open source licensing. For the full line-up and more information visit the OSDC schedule - <a href="http://2011.osdc.com.au/schedule/" target="_blank">http://2011.osdc.com.au/schedule/</a>. </font><font size="2" style="font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " face="arial, sans-serif">Y</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">ou can still purchase tickets from the OSDC website or from the payments link; </span><a href="https://osdc2011.wufoo.com/forms/buy-tickets/" target="_blank" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">https://osdc2011.wufoo.com/forms/buy-tickets/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>We also have a competition running for students to win a free conference ticket. Open to students of all ages, we are asking you to come up with the best open source related topic to put to our discussion panel. The winner will see their topic discussed, examined & dissected by our selected panel of expert speakers & will also receive free entry to the Open Source Developers Conference and related events. The 2 runners up will also receive free entry to the Open Source Developers Conference and related events. The competition will be judged by the OSDC organising committee and closes at 1pm Tuesday the 8th of November. <div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; ">We would love to see you there. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><br>
</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">TTFN<br>Evan</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
on Behalf of the OSDC Canberra Organising Committee.</div><br>--<br>Evan Leybourn<div><a href="http://theagiledirector.com/" target="_blank">http://theagiledirector.com/</a></div><div>+61 412 920 171<br>Agile Management / Business Intelligence<br>
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