Open Programming Languages Miniconf

The Open Programming Languages Miniconf being held on the Monday of
LCA is seeking lightning talks — we’ve got time for about 40 minutes
worth of them, and now we need those spaces filled. So if you’ve got
something that you think would interest the Open Source development
community, please do consider presenting one. Each talk will last no
more than 5 minutes, and may be presented with or without slides.

Some ideas for topics that may be suitable:

• Interesting libraries or frameworks
• 5-minute tour of a new language
• What annoys me about <language X>

If you’re interested in presenting a Lightning Talk, fire off an
e-mail to oplm2010@googlegroups.com, and we’ll make a note of you.

See you all at LCA, and hopefully at OPLM, too!

The LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf is proud to announce its schedule of presentations for the single-day mini-conference to be held on Monday the 18th of January as part of Linux.conf.au 2010 to be held in Wellington, New Zealand.

The current lineup is:

• 10:30 Haskell, and all the wonderful things it doesn’t let you do (Stephen Blackheath)
• 10:55 Introducing Gearman — Distributed server for all languages (Giuseppe Maxia)
• 11:30 Preparing for PHP6 (Ben Balbo)
• 11:55 Attribute-Oriented Programming in PHP (Peter Serwylo)
• 12:20 Lunch Break
• 13:30 The State of Python 3 (Richard Jones)
• 14:30 An Introduction to PyPy (Michael Hudson)
• 14:55 Talloc: Pick Up Your Own Garbage! (Rusty Russell)
• 15:20 Afternoon Tea Break
• 15:45 Composing Object Classes with Roles in Perl (Grant McLean)
• 16:10 Writing Facebook Applications in Perl (Paul Fenwick)
• 16:45 Lightning Talks
• 17:30 Miniconf Close

The latest version of the programme will always be available at http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm/programme/

ABOUT THE MINICONF

The Linux.conf.au Open Programming Languages Miniconf is a single-day mini-conference about application development with Open Source programming languages. Featuring talks on a wide range of topics and programming languages, this miniconf aims to bring together open source developers with presentations that share techniques, best practices and values amongst programmers of all open programming languages. OPLM2010 will be held at Linux.conf.au 2010, in Wellington, New Zealand on January 18.

OPLM2010 is being organised by Christopher Neugebauer and Jacinta Richardson with help from the broader community. You can contact the OPLM2010 organising team at oplm2010@googlegroups.com or visit the website at http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm

And this time, we actually mean it!

Our CFP, extended by a month is coming to a close, and now there’s only one more week to get your presentation proposals in for the LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf!

Our call for presentations closes on Friday 23 October 2009, so if you’re planning on attending LCA2010 in Wellington in January, and have something to say about doing development with Open Source programming languages, libraries or frameworks, we’d love to hear from you!

We’re looking primarly for standard-length talks (20-25 minutes including questions), but we’ll also consider double-length talks on suitably compelling topics (that’s 40-45 minutes including questions).

Our CFP is available from http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm/cfp/ — if you’ve already read it, you can submit your proposal at http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm/cfp/submit/

ABOUT THE MINICONF

The Linux.conf.au Open Programming Languages Miniconf is a single-day mini-conference about application development with Open Source programming languages. Featuring talks on a wide range of topics and programming languages, this miniconf aims to bring together open source developers with presentations that share techniques, best practices and values amongst programmers of all open programming languages. OPLM2010 will be held at Linux.conf.au 2010, in Wellington, New Zealand on January 18.

OPLM2010 is being organised by Christopher Neugebauer and Jacinta Richardson with help from the broader community. You can contact the OPLM2010 organising team at oplm2010@googlegroups.com or visit the website at http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm

Despite our suggestions that no extensions would be granted, the generosity of the LCA committee has allowed us to extend our miniconf call for presentations by four weeks — this gives you another month-ish to procrastinate over your submissions!

The CFP will now be closing on Friday, October 23.

Revised Dates

• Friday, October 23: CFP Closes
• Saturday, October 24-Thursday, October 29: Notification of successful presenters
• Friday, October 30: Final programme submitted to LCA2010 organisers
• January 18, 2010: OPLM is on!

The LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf, to be held at Linux.conf.au 2010 in January 2010 (either on Monday 18th or Tuesday 19th January), invites presentations about all programming languages with an Open Source implementation, such as Perl, Python, C, PHP and Ruby, amongst others.

Topics may include recent developments in open programming languages, interface design, portability and packaging, coding applications with cool new libraries and frameworks, and showing off the use of novel programming techniques; presentations may be proposed in a standard (25-minute) or long (45-minute) talk format.

Whilst most talks will be specific to a single language, the focus of this miniconf will be on sharing techniques, best practices and values amongst programmers of all open programming languages.

We will be accepting proposals effective immediately, and our CFP will close on Friday, September 25. Absolutely no extensions will be granted due to the tight timeline for LCA2010 programme publication.

To read the guidelines for presentations, and the submission process for proposals, please visit the CFP page on our website.

Important Dates

• Wednesday, August 12, 2009: CFP Opens at http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm/cfp/submit/
• Friday, September 25: CFP Closes
• Saturday, September 26-Thursday, October 1: Notification of successful presenters
• Friday, October 2: Final programme submitted to LCA2010 organisers
• January 18, 2010: Linux.conf.au 2010 Begins

The timeline for the CFP is extremely tight by requirement of the LCA2010 organisers, so no extensions will be granted.

About the Miniconf

The Linux.conf.au Open Programming Languages Miniconf is a single-day mini-conference about application development with Open Source programming languages. Featuring talks on a wide range of topics and programming languages, this miniconf aims to bring together open source developers with presentations that share techniques, best practices and values amongst programmers of all open programming languages. OPLM2010 will be held at Linux.conf.au 2010, in Wellington, New Zealand from January 18-23.

OPLM2010 is being organised by Christopher Neugebauer and Jacinta Richardson with help from the broader community. You can contact the OPLM2010 organising team at oplm2010@googlegroups.com or visit the website at http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm.

We’re pleased to announce the acceptance of our proposal for a miniconf to be held at Linux.conf.au 2010, being held in Wellington, New Zealand in January. The LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf is all about doing application development with open source languages, libraries and frameworks; or as our proposal put it:

A single-day mini-conference about application development with Open Source programming languages. Featuring talks on a wide range of topics and programming languages, this miniconf aims to bring together open source developers with presentations that share techniques, best practices and values amongst programmers of all open programming languages.

Our CFP isn’t quite ready yet, but if you have something to say about developing with Python, Perl, PHP, C, or any other open source programming language, start planning your talks and presentations; we look forward to seeing the quality from the main conference submissions continuing through to the miniconfs!