OSDC 2007 Program

The call for papers was completed with over 100 proposals submitted! An overview of confirmed sessions is online, as is the program schedule.

Papers on open source development tools, languages and technologies were solicited for submission to OSDC 2007, with an interest in a wide range of open source technologies and languages. For examples, take a look at some previous presentations. The theme for this year's conference is "Success in Development & Business".

Key dates:

 Call for Papers   Completed with over 100 proposals! 
 Proposal acceptance   Completed, barring late speaker cancellations. 
 Accepted paper submissions - due ASAP now!   14th October 2007 
 OSDC 2007 Tutorials   26th November 2007 
 OSDC 2007 Main Conference!   27th - 29th November 2007 

If you have any questions, you can contact the OSDC 2007 program commitee.

Instructions for Presenters

All presentations (except lightning talks) must be accompanied by presentation materials. A detailed paper complementing your talk matter would be preferred - your slides merely illustrate your verbal presentation.

Failure to submit a paper may result in speaker benefits being withdrawn.

Presentation formats

We will accept the following types of presentation:

Lightning Talks (5 minutes)

You don't need to submit a proposal for a lightning talk. These will be organised from sign-up sheets at the conference. Instructions will be given on the first day.

Lightning talks are brief talks that focus on a single example, idea, project or technique. Lightning talks are not expected to cover all aspects of the subject. They're an excellent forum for first-time speakers.

Standard (30 minutes)

This is the preferred format. 20 minutes for talking and 5 minutes for questions (with 5 minutes spare for set-up and take-down). This is enough time to cover a few issues well and allows us to provide a good selection of talks throughout the day.

Extended (60 minutes)

Extended talks are ideal for experienced speakers who want to cover a large topic. 45 minutes for talking and 10 minutes for questions (with 5 minutes spare for set-up and take-down).

If you choose the longer time slot please include include a justification in your proposal. We reserve the right to ask you to change a long talk proposal to be a standard length instead.

Tutorial

There will be a single day of tutorials on Monday 26th November. Tutorial presenters will receive free registration to the conference and an additional remuneration to be determined. Tutorial materials will follow the same schedule as papers below.

Submission stages

1. Proposals

Your proposal will need to include:

Don't panic. We don't require you to have written the technology that you want to talk about. If you use something in your day to day working life and you think that other people might benefit from using it, then feel free to propose a talk on it. Submit your proposal.

The proposals from OSDC 2006 can be found at osdc2006.cgpublisher.com/proposals.

2. Proposals acceptance

Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposal by the proposal acceptance date. Obviously we'd love to accept as many proposals as we can, but we only have a certain number of sessions to fill.

If you require faster confirmation of acceptance (for example, because you are travelling from overseas and require extra time to make arrangements) please communicate this to the committee when submitting your proposal.

3. Paper Submission

All presenters are required to submit presentation materials by the specified date.  Failure to do so may result in loss of your speaking slot and speaker benefits.

This submission is to be your full paper, not a draft. It should contain all of the usual aspects of a paper such as an abstract, introduction, body and conclusion. Please ensure that this submission has had its grammar and spelling corrected and that code snippets work.

Your paper allows attendees who attended your talk a chance to refresh their memories about your presentation, and gives attendees who missed your talk a chance to learn from you anyway. Make sure your paper includes - at the very least - a brief introduction to your subject material and a list of further resources.

We would prefer that papers for standard length talks (30 minutes) be no more than 5 A4 pages of 11-point type with reasonable margins and papers for long talks (60 minutes) be no more than 10 pages. Appropriate file formats include any file that can be read with Open Office (which includes plain text and HTML with minimal mark-up). Slides (even those accompanied by speaker notes) will not be printed in the proceedings.

Papers from OSDC 2006 provide a good range of sample paper layouts.

By submitting a paper to be published in the proceedings, you are agreeing to the OSDC Publication Agreement.

4. Review results

All papers will be reviewed. The purpose of review is to ensure that papers are of a high quality and to aid our talk scheduling. The purpose is not to identify spelling or grammatical errors or to test code snippets, although errors may be corrected during the review if found. Obviously, we'd strongly recommend you ask a friend or colleague to give your paper a read through before you submit it.

Once your paper has been reviewed, the review results will be provided to you so that you can make the requested improvements for the published version.

5. Proceedings version

This is the final copy of your paper as it will be printed in the conference proceedings.

Speaker Benefits

All OSDC speakers (except for lightning talks) at OSDC will have their conference registration fee waived.

Note that it's important that you get your papers in by the due dates - we reserve the right to withdraw the free registration if you don't get it in on time. If you're having problems meeting the deadlines, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can work with you to figure it out.

If you're a student, please make sure that we know it. We may offer prize(s) for the best student paper submitted.

Contact details

If you have any questions, please contact the OSDC 2007 program commitee.

Stream List

These are the streams defined in the proposal system.

Language Streams

Concept Streams