An excellent opportunity has come up to have the 2007 edition of the Open Source Developers Conference to Brisbane. Various people from Brisbane were independently interested, and we converged at LCA 2007 in Sydney last week. From discussions there, I understand that the OSDC committee is interested, but would of course like to make sure that it will once again be a well attended quality event, and a worthy successor to the previous editions in Melbourne – so we need to do some homework!

OSDC is generally held in December, the CfP would start in April. Various things would need to be in place before then. If you are able and willing to help with this, please email me at my-first-name @ my-last-name dot com dot au The current aim is for an initial meeting in Brisbane within the next couple of weeks, to go over things before submitting a full proposal to the OSDC committee.

Of particular interest are people with

• time & energy;
• connections to UQ and QUT (we want to get them involved, since it’s a peer-reviewed conference);
• specialist experience with some of the sub-tasks needed to put on a successful conference, such as:
  • connections and/or experience with local companies who could sponsor.
  • marketing and related experience.

So, please drop me a line ASAP if you want to be involved in making this happen. Thanks!