[OSDC Israel] OSDC Israel 2008 - Call for Organizers

[Shlomi Fish]

On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> After a year break I would like to try to organize another OSDC in
> Israel around Februray 2008. The conference is planned to be 3 days
> long with 3-4 parallel tracks.
>
> The first step for this is to assemble the list of organizers,
> especially the content managers and language liaisons.
>
> I would like to have 4 main tracks in the conference, one for each one
> of the P languages:
> Perl, Python, PHP and Ruby.
>

4 tracks dedicated to Perl, Python, PHP and Ruby sound too much like Divide 
and Conquer for me. One of the reasons for OSDC is for developers to learn 
from each other and that includes from developers of other languages. I 
suggest more general language-agnostic tracks. 

Last year, my only presentation was scheduled at the Python room and at the 
second half of a different presentation. As a result, I gave a Perl-focused 
presentation to the Pythoneers.

> For each track I need one or better two person who will act as content
> managers.
>

I am willing to help with the site and with the backend code, assuming there 
will be a way for me to get it up and running on my machine, which I couldn't 
last year. At the moment, the codebase has many XSS vulnerabilities.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> The task of the content manager is to
> 1) make sure the community knows about the conference
> 2) make sure when we set the date it does not conflict with some event
> of the community
>     (e.g. German Perl Workshop, PyCon tend to be in February)
> 3) Find speakers and other people who will generate *good* content
> 4) Fnd a star speaker possibly from abroad (if we have the budet for
> the invitation)
> 5) Get the speakers to submit their talks in time to be printed in the
> proceeedings
> 6) Get the slides to be posted on the web site
> 7) Probably other things I don't remember now.
>
> So in order to start organizing - or at least to see if there is
> enough interest in the communities to have a conference please let me
> know if you are interested in being
> the conent manager for one of the languages.
>
> regards
>    Gabor
>    http://www.osdc.org.il/



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