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DPC10 Unconference

This year there is a new feature in the Dutch PHP Conference schedule - the unconference! It's an additional track on the main conference days, where the talks are provided by ... you!

To find out more, read the full details on the Uncon page.

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DPC News

With Thanks to Our Sponsors - 4th June 2010

We have so many really excellent sponsors to thank this year that we've made them a page of their own to give us space to tell you about who they are and what they have contributed to make this event a great success. So with enormous gratitude I introduce to you: Zend, Microsoft, Oracle, Github, Facebook, php|architect, ActiveState and MobyPicture. Please visit our Sponsors Page to learn more about them and when you see them at the event, take the time to thank them, these are awesome companies and key players in our industry.

Meet the Authors Session at DPC10 - 3rd June, 2010

We couldn't help noticing that this year, our speaker lineup contains not only the leading lights of our industry as we'd expect, but also includes some well-respected published authors. After seeing a couple of them get ambushed last year by autograph hunters:


photo credit: skoop


This year we have warned them of our intentions! On Friday at 1pm we'll gather together our authors at a table in the concourse so that anyone who wants to meet these notables, or bring their copies of books by these authors and get them signed, can do so. The idea is that this helps you to find them easily and helps them enjoy the event without being stopped quite so often. So drop by and you'll find:


If there are others you know will be at the event that you'd like to see, let us know by emailing dpc@ibuildings.com.

Cal Evans and David Zülke Join the Schedule - 9 May 2010

We've filled up our remaining slots with a couple of PHP superstars! Cal will be giving his talk "Crash! Burn! Recover!" (its actually him building something with Flash Builder) and David brings his "Embracing Constraints with CouchDB" talk to Saturday's lineup. All you have to do now is figure out which of the other sessions you want to miss in order to see these ones ...

Sessions now on Joind.In - 12 April 2010

You can now find all our talks listed on the DPC10 Event Page on Joind.In. This site is used to list sessions happening in an event and to collect feedback about sessions. Having attendees leave feedback is briliant for organisers and speakers alike - to know what went well and what we might do better next time. This year, since the unconference will have a schedule that changes during the event, we'll be using joind.in to show what will be happening in that track.

If you'll be joining us at the Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam this summer then make sure you are registered on Joind.In; if you're speaking then log in and claim your talks.

New Feature: DPC10 Unconference - 7 April 2010

This year there is a new feature in the Dutch PHP Conference schedule - the unconference! It's an additional track on the main conference days, where the talks are provided by ... you! Its an empty track that we can adjust during the event to include talks people want to give, or to find people to speak about topics people want to hear more about, or anything. This track is being run entirely by PHPBenelux, and we are very grateful for their involvement. To find out more, read the full details on the Uncon page. The unconference will be an anything-goes, less formal affair and we're going to have a lot of fun!

See you at the uncon!

Tutorial Schedule Finalised

We are delighted to announce the full lineup for the Dutch PHP Conference tutorial day on June 10th - and this year we're bigger than ever with five parallel tracks for you to choose from and a mixture of full- and half-day sessions on offer.

The schedule additions are both full-day sessions: "Zend Framework Application Patterns" presented by Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Rob Allen, and "Scrum Workshop - Working projects the iterative way" presented by Sebastian Schurmann. These join our existing sessions on Xdebug, Drupal, extensions, security and quality to give you an unparalleled opportunity to get in-depth on these subjects with our experts.

You can select which tutorial you want to attend when you book your ticket - please note that spaces are limited in each session so we do recommend booking early to avoid disappointment (and to save money with our Early Bird prices!). If you have already booked your ticket you will receive an email asking you to select the session you would like to attend. We hope you will join us at our tutorial day and the main conference days which follow on 11th and 12 June. The the full schedule is at http://phpconference.nl/schedule and if you have any questions or comments you can get in touch with us at dpc@ibuildings.com 

See you there!

DPC10 Schedule Announced

We are delighted to announce our main schedule for the Dutch PHP Conference is now available! This covers our tutorial day and main conference days for the event on 10th-12th June at RAI in Amsterdam. Our speakers include Chris Shiflett, Sebastian Bergmann, Kevlin Henney, Elizabeth Naramore, David Soria Parra, Rob Allen and many more for three days of high-calibre technical content and discussion. See the full schedule at http://phpconference.nl/schedule and if you'd like to join us you can take advantage of our early bird prices when you register http://phpconference.nl/register


Announcing the WinPHP Challenge 2010! - 15 February 2010

After a succesful WinPHP challenge at the Dutch PHP Conference last year, we're excited to be part of the 2010 edition of the contest!

In this contest developers are encouraged to develop PHP applications using Microsoft technologies. The exact rules can be found on http://www.eurowinphp.com/the-challenge. Registration is required to take part in this competition: Registration starts on 15 February 2010.

The contest's main prize is an incredible package: it includes a trip to Microsoft's MIX event in Las Vegas (including hotel and flight), an Xbox and a Windows Mobile phone. And that's just the main prize. There's a 2nd and 3d prize as well.

Once all contestants have been registered, they are allowed to develop their entry for the contest. Starting April 1st contestants will have access to their own development server, provided by LeaseWeb, right up until 1st of June, at which point the jury will start evaluating the entries. The jury consists of Remi Woler (PHPBenelux staff member, Zend employee and PHP community member, Ivo Jansch (DPC organizer and Ibuildings CTO) and Bram Veenhof, Microsoft's developer evangelist and community liaison. Programming skills, idea, application quality, transparency (blogging, tweeting) and level of integration with Microsoft technologies are all elements that the jury will take into account. Last year's winner developed a component for Microsoft SQLServer that eventually ended up in the Zend Framework, which the jury found very impressive. To see how the contestants are doing, they should write at least one blog post a week to report their progress and share their findings.

For the complete rules of the competition, what we will be judging on and the requirements of the application check out http://www.eurowinphp.com/the-challenge.

The finale will be during the closing of the Dutch PHP Conference on June 12th at which point Microsoft will announce the winners!

We hope you'll be as excited about this contest as we are, so check it out at http://www.eurowinphp.com!



Blind Bird Discount ends February 15th

The call for papers is closed and our schedule is almost ready to be announced.  As a result the "Blind Bird" ticket offer will no longer
be valid and from Monday 15th February, our Early Bird prices will be available.  So if you're planning to join us for this event in
Amsterdam this June - register before Monday!



Call for Papers update - 1 February 2010

The DPC Call for Papers closed last night and the submissions have been outstanding in both quality and quantity! We had 66% more submissions than last year and our panel are now working hard on evaluating the sessions to build an excellent schedule. While that happens we thought we would share some statistics of where in the world our talks came from:



Country Talks
Belgium 9
Brazil 4
Canada 17
China 3
Czech Republic 1
Finland 1
Germany 36
India 3
Netherlands 21
Spain 1
UK 33
USA 55

With plenty of great submissions from across Europe and further afield, this year's DPC promises to be better than ever - tickets are still on sale at the cheapest "blind bird" prices, so called because they are only available until the schedule is published so you have to buy before you can see exactly which sessions are included. We hope to see you in Amsterdam in June!



Inspiration for last-minute CFP submitters - 30 January 2010

If you plan to submit to our call for papers, this video might give you some inspiration; it covers some of last year's high tech content:


Dutch PHP Conference - Last year's topics from Ibuildings on Vimeo.



Tickets available - big blind bird discounts! - 13 January 2010

In previous years, we always had 'early bird' discount on our DPC tickets. This year, we'll have early bird discounts as well, but we're adding an extra level of discount. Since the schedule isn't available yet (our Call for Papers is still running), we're launching the ticket sales with a 'blind bird discount'. For those of you that know that whatever the schedule is, DPC10 is going to be awesome anyway.

For conference only passes this means a € 85,- euro discount, for the full conference the discount is a whopping € 150 euro!

As soon as a good portion of the schedule is known, we're moving to regular early bird discounts, so get blind bird discounts while you can!

Tickets can be purchased over here.

Call for Papers for DPC 2010 now open! - 11 January 2010

Good news!  The Call for Papers for DPC (Dutch PHP Conference) 2010 is now open!

The event will be held in or around Amsterdam from 10th to 12th June 2010.  Thursday 10th is tutorial day, and Friday 11th and Saturday 12th are our main conference days.  We're looking for high-quality, technical sessions from speakers who can cover advanced topics and keep our demanding audiences entertained.  Tutorials are 3 or 6 hours in length (note that 6 hours is our preference) and the standard conference sessions should be 45 minutes.

This year we're excited about many different topics, perhaps the best way to describe it is to say that if  its related to PHP and you are excited about, then we want to hear it!  It doesn't matter who you are, this event is all about the technologies.  DPC has an established reputation as the best place to expand a developer's skill set and improve existing practice and that remains our focus for this year. In particular we'd like to receive proposals regarding emerging technologies, performance and scalability, platforms and best practices - so if you have an idea, please share it with us.

Submit as many talks as you like using our submission form, we'll ask for the title, a description of your session, and some information about you and why we should accept your session - this isn't published and its your chance to sell your session to us.  If you are accepted we'll pay your travel costs, put you up in a hotel, and give you a pass to the conference so you can join us for the duration of this excellent event.

The call for papers is open until 31st January, so get the submissions coming!

Speakers and attendees will also be interested to hear that this year, DPC will include an unconference in collaboration with PHPBenelux! We're thrilled to include this in our packed schedule for the first time; an entire section of the conference will be driven by the attendees at the event itself - and we can't wait to see what you come up with ...

Your host this year,
Lorna Jane Mitchell


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