G'day!

As a meta-comment, that last line: 

The conference web site is: <a href="http://www.osdc.com.au/">here</a>

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reads betters as: 
See <a href="http://www.osdc.com.au/">the conference web site</a> for 
+details.

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Or better yet, omit it entirely, and hyperlink the first appearance (the OSDC 2005 in the first line), and people will know that clicking there does the right thing.

This serves two purposes:

  1. A bookmark made from the link will already have the right label.
  2. The text will read naturally, without synthetic constructs introduced simply for the purpose of making it webby. (Read your original version out loud to a friend, and you'll spot the unnatural construction.)

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In reply to On writing hyperlinks (was Re: Australian Open Source Developers' Conference) by merlyn
in thread Australian Open Source Developers' Conference by EventHorizon

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