We opened up the call for papers for the Northeast PHP Conference about a week ago. Guessing by the names, it appears that we have a very low number of women who have submitted talks.

He includes some quotes from this post by Courtney Stanton about how she was able to get such a high female submission rate for her event. The basic idea was to offer "consulting" services on their ideas and drafts of presentations to help encourage and bolster their confidence in the event. Bradley is offering to do the same for this year's conference, for anyone - not just women.

The Northeast PHP Conference is being held in Cambridge, Massachusetts August 16th through 18th Link: http://bradley-holt.com/2013/04/the-northeast-php-conference-wants-more-women-speakers]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:19:51 -0500 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17678 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17678 This time last year, several members of the PHP (and wider) community wrote up blog posts titled "The Ideas of March". The idea was to blog about blogging and try to kickstart others and encourage them to get back on to blogging again. Here's a list of the people who have posted so far:

• Wez Furlong
• Lorna Mitchell
• Cal Evans
• Chris Cornutt
• Tom Mairs
• Jason Lotito
• Drew McLellan
• Sean Coates
• Chris Shiflett
• Joshua Thijssen
• Kevin Bruce
• Cameron Moll
• Aaron Pinero
• Nick Sloan
• Rafael Dohms
• Bart-Jan Verhoef
• Michiel Rook
• Web Standardistias
• Joshua Taylor
• Katy Watkins
• Shane Carmody
• Rachel Shillcock
• Rian van der Merwe
• Praveen Kumar
• James Trevor

This list will be updated throughout the day as more posts show up. Have a post you don't see mentioned here? Let me know!