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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;">The
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="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
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="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
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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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Our
focus this year is security, identity and privacy.</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;">We
need YOU as a presenter! Your pet project, what you’re currently
working on, what you’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’s document on
</span><a
href="http://osdcnz.wordpress.com/need-to-know/getting-your-conference-abstractproposal-accepted/"
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">how
to submit a presentation</span></a><span
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;">.</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;">Your
presentation should be either 30 or 45 minutes.</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;">Visit
</span><a href="http://www.osdc.org.nz"
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">www.osdc.org.nz</span></a><span
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for registration and information.</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;">Best
regards</span></p>
<span
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;">The
OSDC2013 team<br>
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