The Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 is a conference run by open source developers, for developers and business people. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems, and related topics such as business processes, licensing, and strategy. Talks vary from introductory pieces through to the deeply technical. It is a great opportunity to meet, share, and learn with like-minded individuals.

This year, the conference will be held in Sydney, Australia during the first week of December. If you are an Open Source maintainer, developer or user, the organising committee would encourage you to submit a talk proposal on open source tools, solutions, languages or technologies you are working with.

For more details, see: http://osdc.com.au/2008/papers/cfp.html.

If you have any questions or require assistance with your submission, please don't hesitate to ask!

We continue to recognise the increasing importance of Open Source in providing a medium for collaboration between individuals, researchers, business and government. In recognition of this and ensure a high standard of presentations, we intend to peer-review all submitted papers.

OSDC 2008 Sydney (Australia) - Key Program Dates:

1. 28 Apr - Call for Papers
2. 30 Jun - Initial proposals (short abstract) due
3. 21 Jul - Proposal acceptance
4. 15 Sep - Accepted paper submissions

For all information, contacts and updates, see the OSDC conference web site at http://osdc.com.au/2008/.

The elePHPants are now ready to make their 2008 generation. PHP User groups, enthusiasts and companies that are interested in groups of elePHPants, shall join this year's herd.

ElePHPants are a great link of the community, happily promoting your favorite language in conferences, on work station, baby cribs and other unusual places. Production prices make it possible for groups to raise funds, entice membership or simply bring joy and PHP around.

Pre-register your herd of elePHPants online, for big and small, and join the world of blue elePHPants.

The DC PHP Developers Group recently announced Kshemendra Paul as a featured keynote speaker at the DC PHP Conference & Expo, June 2-4, 2008, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Paul, chief architect for the Office of Management and Budget Executive Office of the President, will be presenting on "Federal E-Government and Enterprise Architecture Updates."

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. The DC PHP conference will include tracks pertaining to business cases, best practices, the art of PHP, PHP applications, PHP in the enterprise, and Open Source. The full speaker schedule will be announced shortly.

For more information about DC PHP Conference & Expo 2008 and to register, please visit www.dcphpconference.com. Early discounted registration rates affective until April 15, 2008

The Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon) 2008 is a two-day conference on free software and open source. It will take place on August, 23th and 24th 2008 in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, Germany.

The PHP Usergroups Dortmund, Köln/Bonn and Hamburg are cooperatively organizing the PHP track as a sub-conference of the FrOSCon. The call for paper is now open.

The publishers of php|architect Magazine are proud to announce the php|tek 2008 conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The PHP Community meets May 20-23 for one of North America's premier PHP conferences of 2008. Join us to hear top speakers such as Derick Rethans (eZ Systems), Lucas Nelan (Facebook), Chris Shiflett (OmniTI), Eli White (Digg) and yes, even Terry Chay (Tagged).

For the past two years, php|architect's spring conference has sold out weeks before the start date, so if you're interested in attending, don't delay, and be sure to sign up ASAP!

The PHP Quebec team is pleased to present the sixth edition of the PHP Quebec Conference. The Conference will take place in Montreal, Canada, on March 12 through 14.

Join us for the PHPLabs, 2 days of technical talks, the Open Source Job Fair & Cocktail. Meet with well know community members such as: John Coggeshall, Marcus Boerger, Zak Greant, Chris Shiflett, Damien Seguy and many more.

Take note that online registration ends on March 7th. For more information, visit the website: http://conf.phpquebec.com

February 29th (Leap Year Day). phplondon.org announce their third annual community conference to be held at Inmarsat, Old Street, London.

This year the conference will run two tracks and include speakers such as Derick Rethans, Wez Furlong, Scott MacVicar and Zoe Slattery.

We will also be holding an extended presentation and discussion on frameworks for PHP.

Visit our conference site to register. Early bird discount is available until 1st February 2008.

2008 DC PHP Conference June 2nd - 4th

• Submission Deadline: March 15, 2008
• Notification by: April 2, 2008

Join us at the 3rd Annual DC PHP Conference. The event will take place at George Washington University's Cafritz Conference Center in the heart of Washington DC. The three day conference begins June 2nd and 3rd with general sessions, and ends June 4th with tutorials.

For more details go to http://www.dcphpconference.com/node/346