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    could you please forward this to your mailing list?<br>
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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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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">For


        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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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Covering


        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&#8217;re currently
        working on, what you&#8217;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&#8217;s document on
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          to submit a presentation</span></a><span
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        presentation should be either 30 or 45 minutes.</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<br>
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