Open Source Developers' Conference

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 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