Call for Participation

The fifth Australian Open Source Symposium (AOSS 5) will be held in Brisbane on Wednesday, 16 July 2003.

Previous AOSS events were held in Melbourne (1999), Adelaide (2000), Canberra (2001) and Sydney (2002).

AOSS is run by developers, for developers. Our goals are to promote the sharing of information and experience, give the community a place to interact, and nurture and harness synergies between Open Source projects.

Just as Open Source is a little different, so is AOSS. While we welcome formal papers, we actively encourage informal (but well prepared) presentations that are both timely and interesting. We know that Open Source changes fast, and that developers would rather write code than papers.

AOSS generally involves short presentations, by developers, of:

• existing open source projects
• works in progress
• cool and bizarre feats of coding

In addition to these technical presentations, for AOSS 5 we are seeking presentations related to the management of open source projects, such as:

• designing for portability
• testing and verification methods
• caring about application usability
• methods for handling users, flamers and groupies

Typical AOSS presentations are 30 minutes in duration; please indicate if you require a longer session.

Timetable

Abstracts (around 100 words) are due Wednesday, 11 June 2003.

Presenters receive free registration

Please email submissions to aoss@auug.org.au

AOSS 5 is proudly supported by AUUG Inc.

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AOSS5 is sponsored by SnapGear