Open Source Developers' Conference

<p>The Open Source Developers' Conference (OSDC) was a non-profit conference for <a href="/facts/Software_developer/WGTS1Jv9">developers</a> of <a href="/facts/Open-source_software/HzTaB8E9">open-source software</a>. 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.
</p><p>The conference was open to talks about software developed for any platform or <a href="/facts/Operating_system/8XTuvMh2">operating system</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl</a>, <a href="/facts/Python_(programming_language)/YbuGqofa">Python</a>, <a href="/facts/PHP/vU6YRJX0">PHP</a>, <a href="/facts/Ruby_(programming_language)/BeYSaPSR">Ruby</a>, <a href="/facts/Groovy_(programming_language)/vGAckbte">Groovy</a>, <a href="/facts/Scala_(programming_language)/ebL8o6AK">Scala</a>, <a href="/facts/Java_(programming_language)/9ScgFyAL">Java</a>, <a href="/facts/Mono_(software)/PlyeJxRS">Mono</a> and <a href="/facts/C_(programming_language)/Ky2No763">C</a>.  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.
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Open Source Developers' Conference