On the Zend Developer Zone today Ralph Schindler has officially announced the first bug hunt event of 2011 for the Zend Framework happening today through the 22nd.

It's time to kick 2011 off with a bang. Tomorrow, Friday and Saturday (January 20th, 21st, and 22nd) we will be hosting our monthly bug-hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework. So, if you haven't already planned to take some time to get involved, now's the time. Bounce on over to your bosses cube and have him carve out some time to bug-hunt with us!

With the release of Zend Framework 1.11, the current branch will make up the final release in the 1.x series. If you'd like to join in, you can go over to the Freenode IRC network and join the #zftalk.dev channel to get started. You'll need a CLA on file to commit back to the project.