Horay, we finally made it work. Registration for the Open Source Developers’ Conference 2007 is now open. For non-presenters, the earlybird price is $275 (until October 14th), after that the full conference price is $325. All regular tickets include the conference dinner!
Cool & affordable, right?

As a reminder: the OSDC 2007 conference dates are 26-29 November; location: Brisbane, Queensland. Peruse the overview of confirmed sessions. You simply must be there, otherwise you’re just not cool, and evil geckos will eat your undies.

So what was the holdup with the registration stuff? I’ll try to clarify:
Naturally we want to provide the option for credit card payment. The kind people at Common Ground where our conference system is hosted do provide that service also, but since it’s not their main gig and the processing is manual, the cost is significant. At least, for a low-fee conference such as OSDC. So, while we’re really appreciative of CG, we were looking at an alternative.
As it turns out, Paypal can do this now, visa/mastercard payments also for those who do not have a paypal account. Perfect. But getting this method blended into the registration process was a major chore, since the CG system of course does not expect this. Switching some options off actually upset the system greatly, but the developers fixed that.
I think we’ve now got a procedure that’s workable and not too complicated, and that’s what it’s about. The fees with Paypal are minimal, and that’s excellent.

What the OSDC organisers would love to see at this point is all you great attendees-to-be signing up right away!
Did you see the confirmed sessions? It’s going to be a fab event.