Counting down to the Dutch PHP Conference
April 9th, 2009 by Ivo
It's about 2 months until the next Dutch PHP Conference in the Amsterdam RAI.
It's a step up from last year, with one additional conference day. The speaker lineup is awesome: people such as PHP core developer Scott MacVicar, Andrei 'Unicode' Zmievski, php|architect's Marco Tabini, Xdebug's Derick Rethans, Zend Framework architect Matthew Weier O'Phinney, security guru Stefan Esser, Restful Ben Ramsey, Paul 'KISS' Reinheimer and many, many others. See the full schedule here. It will all be hosted by our own Cal Evans.
I don't have to speak this year, I just get to do the closing keynote together with Cal and Marco. That'll be fun!
From all the DPC's I've visited before, this is the one I most look forward to. It's also nice to see industry adoption of the conference, with big names such as Microsoft and Oracle sponsoring the event. (Microsoft has xboxes and tickets to Las Vegas to give away, see their WinPHP Challenge.)
Oh, and if you order your tickets before April 30, there's a significant Early Bird discount. Register here.
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April 09, 2009 at 1:04 pm, Jason said:
Sadly, this year’s conference has a price increase of 150% in respect to last year’s. In hard economic times, this should be taken into account. I know several people that was very excited about the conference, but this year prices are really high for the average european student/hacker like me that enjoys every affordable conference.
For example, I could attend last year’s Google I/O conference because they had a real especial discount for students.
I wan to be wrong, but I think that iBuildings just want to have people who can afford the products and services they sell and not really have an impact of the growing PHP community.
April 09, 2009 at 2:50 pm, Ivo said:
@jason: sorry you feel that way. We only have a 50% increase on price but more than 100% increase on amount of sessions and days (i.e. double the days, more than twice the amount of sessions). We don’t need to make a profit, which is why we are able to keep the price low. If you compare the price of DPC with other PHP conferences around the world, it’s in the low end, while we offer a similar amount of sessions.
That being said, I appreciate the idea of a student discount. For this year, we won’t be able to take that into account, but we’ll look into it for next year!