From mcantelon at gmail.com Sat Dec 1 17:40:19 2007 From: mcantelon at gmail.com (Mike Cantelon) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 17:40:19 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Open Web Vancouver 2008 Conference Message-ID: <8fb626080712011740u1c860335mbaa5500137479094@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, The Vancouver PHP User Group is hosting the Open Web Vancouver 2008 Conference (http://www.openwebvancouver.ca), a non-profit conference on open web technologies. We're looking for talk submissions from folks who develop web applications using various open-source technologies, including Catalyst and other Perl-based web technologies. If interested, submit your talk here: http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/node/add/talk Here's the official conference blurb with more details on the conference itself: When: Monday April 14 - Tuesday April 15th 2008 Where: Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre (VCEC), 999 Canada Place. What: A conference showcasing open source technologies, communities and culture. We are taking submissions for talks from all areas of open source technologies such as PHP,Ruby on Rails, XUL, Perl, OpenMoko, GPL, Linux, Drupal, HTML, CSS, Javascript and AJAX, GIMP, XML, Apache, MySQL, Web 2.0, etc. Please contact us right away If you are interested in speaking. Deadline to accept talk submissions is Dec 31st 2007. Registration opens Dec. 22nd 2007 at $100 early bird pricing. After January 31st 2008, we offer registration for $150. Conferences we have held in the past have sold-out, attracting audiences from all over the world, and have featured the biggest names in PHP and related topics and technologies. VCEC is the largest conference facility in downtown Vancouver, located in the spectacular inner harbour. The conference will open with a 'keynote' session featuring two major presentations and other short presentations of interest. In addition to our three tracks of presentations on both days of the conference, there will be time allocated for attendees to give short talks on topics of interest in a 'Lightning Talk' format. The first evening will host a specialist panel discussion, free and open to the public. The conference will close with a Q&A session with all the conference speakers and sponsor product giveaways. The Open Web is a presentation of the Vancouver PHP Users Association, a registered non-profit association for the advancement of PHP and the Open Web. Cheers, Mike -- Mike Cantelon :: Open Source Development > Django, Drupal, PHP http://mikecantelon.com From simmons.chris at gmail.com Mon Dec 3 11:24:37 2007 From: simmons.chris at gmail.com (Chris Simmons) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:24:37 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Nov 30 Social Message-ID: <625b0a180712031124g7b5d77e0h15b42aabb90ca867@mail.gmail.com> Thanks to everyone who made it out to last Friday's social meeting. We eventually found a table for the 8 or 9 of us, ordered a few rounds, some nachos, and chatted about topics both tech and non. A special thanks to J. Shirley for coming up with the idea of a social, and to Ken Simpson & Mail Channels for providing us with a round. There are a few guest speakers in the works for the new year, and hopefully we'll have some more social meetings as well (this time, with more notice). -chris From simmons.chris at gmail.com Mon Dec 3 11:24:37 2007 From: simmons.chris at gmail.com (Chris Simmons) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:24:37 -0800 Subject: [Van-pm] Nov 30 Social Message-ID: <625b0a180712031124g7b5d77e0h15b42aabb90ca867@mail.gmail.com> Thanks to everyone who made it out to last Friday's social meeting. We eventually found a table for the 8 or 9 of us, ordered a few rounds, some nachos, and chatted about topics both tech and non. A special thanks to J. Shirley for coming up with the idea of a social, and to Ken Simpson & Mail Channels for providing us with a round. There are a few guest speakers in the works for the new year, and hopefully we'll have some more social meetings as well (this time, with more notice). -chris