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Australasian Open Source Developers Conference is one of the
top conferences for developers in Asia Pacific. It's primarily
focused on development with open source tools and development
of open source software, and is now in its 10th year.</span></p>
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the first time, the conference is crossing the ocean and is
landing in Auckland, New Zealand, 21st - 23rd October 2013, at
the lavish Langham Hotel. This makes it truly an international
event to that is a must attend.</span></p>
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everything from revision control to the latest software
development methodologies and tools, OSDC cannot afford to be
missed by anyone who uses open source development tools, or
writes open source software.</span></p>
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focus this year is security, identity and privacy.</span></p>
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need YOU as a presenter! Your pet project, what you’re
currently working on, what you’d like to work on. You've got a
great idea in your head, and and we would like you to speak
about it at OSDC2013 Auckland. Perhaps someone has suggested
that you submit a proposal because they're impressed with what
you've been doing, or perhaps you've given talks at other
conferences or events and you'd like to give one here. Perhaps
you're a repeat speaker, or at least a repeat
proposal-submitter and you want some hints on how to make it
much more likely your talk will be accepted. Now you need to
read Jacinta Richardson’s document on </span><a
href="http://osdcnz.wordpress.com/need-to-know/getting-your-conference-abstractproposal-accepted/"
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to submit a presentation</span></a><span
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presentation should be either 30 or 45 minutes. Please email
your submission to </span><a href="mailto:papers@osdc.org.nz"
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CFP closes 08 June. Have fun!</span></p>
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</span><a href="http://www.osdc.org.nz"
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for registration and information.</span></p>
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regards</span></p>
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OSDC2013 team</span></b>
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