. . "OSDW is aimed at helping educate developers new to open source, the Ottawa conference is a place for us seasoned developers who are in the middle of things to congregate. if you look at the schedules of both this will be obvious to you. so how OSDW could ever be a reaction to the Ottawa event is beyond me: it was started before it happened, and it has a different focus. oh, and the person who has" . .