The AFUP, Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP, have just announced the upcoming conference "Forum PHP 2008". The two day conference will feature one technical day with the most advanced PHP techniques and a business day, with case studies and examples of successful projects.

Sessions from the best French speaking experts will include :

• How to manage a PHP project (tools, methods, ...)
• Insure code quality
• Internet and legal issues (intellectual property, ...)
• Build a business around
• PHP scalibility
• Connect services(web services)
• Rich User Interfaces (technology choice, implementation, ...)

Sessions will typically be 45 minutes long followed by a 10 minutes Q&A session and up to 3 hours for workshops. Use the form on the site to submit your session proposal.

Proposals will be reviewed after the deadline has passed. Additional information may be asked where needed. Proposals will be chosen according to their layout, relevancy for a professional audience and the overall homegeneity of the forum. Every candidate will be personnally notified of the status of their proposal. The decision is final. Priority will be given to sessions in French.

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From 4th to 5th April 2008 in Utrecht will be held the third annual Conference and Expo : Dutch Joomla!days 2008. Building on the great success of the Dutch Joomla!days in 2006, this third edition will have an international perspective. With 500 open source experts and business people attending, the event will be bigger and even more exciting than the previous editions.

Together they will put Joomla! in the spotlight. During the conference, attention will be given also to other projects, such as Drupal, Typo3 and sugarCRM. Why? Because we are going to build bridges. With Joomla! as the centerpiece. Three quarters of all sessions will deal with Joomla!, which means that visitors who only want to hear about Joomla!, can do so, with abundant freedom of choice.

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The DC PHP Developers Group recently announced the third annual DC PHP Conference & Expo scheduled for June 2-4, 2008, at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Join hundreds of PHP practitioners, business managers, and government officials from around the world in the exchange of ideas and solutions for building a better web application infrastructure. DC PHP Developers’ Group is committed to expanding PHP's deployment in the Washington, DC Region.

Get ready for three days of exceptional presentations and outstanding networking events. Previously held in November, DC PHP is excited to bring the PHP community a bigger and better conference in 2008 with the move to late spring.

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From this Friday, November 30th to December 1st will be held the 2nd annual PHP Conference Brasil 2007. The event will take place at UNIFIEO in Osasco, S?o Paulo. This year's conference will have room for 1000 people. Its scheduled for tutorials of 3 hours, aside of speeches, cases, stands and a great catch up time for newbies and veterans. More information and registration on the Conference website.

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After huge success in Vancouver Canada in early 2007, and Sydney Australia last month where attendance grew more than 50% from last year, one of the world's leading conferences for web professionals, Web Directions, returns to Vancouver in late January 2008.

Featuring in-depth day long workshops, more than 20 world leading speakers from across the globe over two days, and two days at Blackcomb/Whistler proving geeks can ski and board with the best of them, Web Directions is widely considered one of the 'must attend' professional events of the Web Industry, drawing attendees from all over the world.

Unlike most web conferences, Web Directions is organized by industry practitioners and leaders with collectively decades of experience in web design and development. We are passionate and knowledgeable about the web, we keep abreast of trends and developments, and like our attendees we work with the web every day so understand the need for practical content that attendees can use right now, as well as inspiration for the future.

Web Directions focusses on the challenges of building the web - practical and inspiring concepts, technologies and techniques for web designers, developers, product managers, and others whose day to day responsibility is making and managing web sites and applications.

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From 7 to 9 November 2007 will be the held the DC PHP Conference in Washington, DC. This year the conference will focus on "Creating Enterprise Level Web Applications with PHP" with lots of great sessions on PHP Security, Scalability, the art of PHP, and alternative topics. Some of the speakers include Chris Shiflett, Damien Seguy, Tony Leonard, Brian Shire, Colin Thorne, Eli White, Mike Potter, Laura Thomson, David Sklar, Mike Ho, and Keith Casey, in addition to many others. Registration is $450 and student pass is just $150, you can find more on details on the conference website. If you are around Washington be sure to not miss this great entreprise level conference.

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