Call for Participation

O'Reilly & Associates is pleased to announce the 1st annual PHP Conference. This event is the central gathering place for the PHP community to exchange ideas, techniques, and to advance the language. The PHP Conference is a five-day event designed for PHP programmers and developers and technical staff involved in PHP technology and its applications. The conference will be part of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention alongside the 5th annual Perl Conference at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, California, July 23-27, 2001.

The Open Source Conference includes two days of intensely focused tutorials aimed mainly at intermediate and advanced PHP, Perl and Python programmers along with users of popular technologies such as XML, MySQL, Mozilla, Apache, Tcl and Zope. These tutorials are designed to provide concrete knowledge that leads directly to better programs. Three days of multi-tracked conference sessions focus on the cutting edge technology and feature talks, demonstrations, and panel debates on topics ranging from object-orientation to data mining.

Technically sophisticated individuals who are actively working with the technology make all tutorial and conference presentations. Presentations by marketing staff or with a marketing focus will not be accepted.

Participation Opportunities

Individuals and companies interested in making technical presentations at the Conference are invited to submit proposals to the conference organizers following the guidelines below. Proposals will be considered in two classes: tutorial programs and conference presentations.

Topics

The program committee invites submissions of tutorials, or conference presentations on topics of interest to PHP programmers. Here are some suggested topics:

• Extending PHP
• E-Commerce with PHP
• WebMail with PHP
• XML/XSLT/XML-RPC
• CORBA and PHP
• LDAP
• PHP on Windows
• Ways to connect to Windows ODBC from UNIX

Tutorial Presentations

The first two days of the conference are devoted to tutorial presentations. Tutorial proposals must include:

• Tutorial Title
• Tutorial length (3 or 6 hours)
• Target audience including any prerequisites for taking advantage of the material (i.e. a basic understanding of PHP is necessary)
• What attendees will learn--the knowledge or skill take-away attendees will have at the completion of thetutorial
• Tutorial outline--a short bullet list or description of the course itself and the material it covers
• Speaker name
• Speaker biography
• Complete speaker contact information; if applicable, include administrative support contact information

Conference Presentations

Conference presentations will take place on the third to fifth days of the conference and participation will be considered for these types of talks:

• Case studies showing an application of PHP, the problems that were solved and the lessons learned
• Focused technology discussions covering a specific PHP technology and showing a variety of implementation or application options
• New product/technology demonstrations--live demonstrations of released or near released PHP extensions or applications
• Panel participation--speakers to participate in one of the various panel discussions that are part of the conference

Conference proposals must include:

• Type of talk--technology, new product, case study, or panel
• Title of talk or demonstration
• Abstract of talk, maximum 250 words
• Speaker name
• Speaker biography
• Complete speaker contact information; if applicable, include administrative support contact information

Submitting Your Proposal

Please send all proposals to: oscon2001-php-proposals@oreilly.com.

Submit all proposals via electronic mail in plain text with no attachments. Submit one proposal per email. The subject line of your email must follow this format:

Your Last Name: proposal type (tutorial, proposal, paper): proposal title

Smith: Tutorial: Advanced PHP Programming 

You will receive an automatic confirmation of receipt for each proposal.

Important Dates

Proposals due: February 15, 2001

Notification to conference and tutorial presenters: March 1, 2001

Tutorial presentations due: May 1, 2001

Conference presentations due: June 1, 2001