I could do it, provided you don't find anyone closer to do the session.

Eventually, the problem would concern travel and accomodation costs as
I'm at the opposite side of the world.

For details about me, you could check them at
http://www.v-developers.com (the site of the conference I'm organising
in Portugal at November 16-17).

Regards

Armando Halpern

--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, Adam Clarke
<Adam.Clarke@S...> wrote:

> Melbourne (Australia) Perl Mongers are organising an Open Source
> Developers Conference for Dec 1-3 this year. Since I know that there

are

> a quite a number of Firebird core developers / heavy users living here
> I thought that it would be useful to let you all know. It would be

great

> to see somone give an "Overview of Firebird" type talk at least. I have
> pasted the call for papers info below, of course if someone from

another

> part ot the world is interested in an Australian holiday at that

time of

> the year (Summer - very nice beaches etc) then that would be fantastic.
>
> Call for papers
> ==========
>
> Our OSDC/YAPC call for papers is out! It would be superb to have every
> Melbourne PMer present something at the conference. If you haven't
> presented at a conference before please consider doing a lightning talk.
> This is a brief (7 minute) talk on one aspect of a topic.
>
> I'm certain that we'd be delighted to have you practice your talk at our
> regular Perl Monger meetings.
>
> The Call for Papers can be found at:
> http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/call_for_papers.html
>
> The important dates are:
> Proposals deadline: 28th June 2004
> Proposals acceptance: 29th July 2004
> Submission deadline: 20th September 2004
> Review results: 8th October 2004
> Proceedings version: 8th November 2004
> Conference: 1st - 3rd December 2004
>
>
> Not that Firebird is not listed as an official topic, however all that
> really means is that we do not have an expert to review the

submissions.

> If someone who qualifies as expert would be willing to volunteer for
> that task then we would be fine.
>
> If you think it is appropriate to post this message more widely to the
> lists then please do so.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
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