As the conference season for next year gets closer, several conferences have opened their Call for Papers. A few of them have deadlines coming up soon, so don't forget the following important dates if you'd like to submit!

• php|tek 2012 - ends December 31st, 2011 (tomorrow!)
• Dutch PHP Conference - ends January 31st, 2012
• phpDay Italy - ends February 28th, 2012

Be sure to submit while there's still time! Thanks to Thijs Feryn for the reminder!

The Dutch PHP Conference has Call for Papers has also been opened!

We're back! And we are glad to announce that we'll be organising another edition of the Dutch PHP Conference, which will be held in Amsterdam from 7th to 9th June 2012. Thursday 7th will be the tutorial day and June 8th and 9th will be the main conference days. Ticket sales will start on February 15th. [...] We're looking for high-quality, technical sessions from speakers who can cover advanced topics and keep our demanding audience inspired

The Call for Papers is open until January 31st, so get those talk ideas in soon. In addition to the normal DPC conference, they're also holding the Dutch Mobile Conference at the same time, a 3-day conference about technologies used for mobile websites and mobile web application development.

php|architect has officially announced their php|tek conference for 2012 and have opened their Call for Papers:

The simple answer is to the question "What topics are you looking for" is: anything that helps inspire PHP developers to do their jobs better, more easily, and more efficiently. [...] Most importantly, we do not necessarily look for talks that are about PHP. Some of the most successful presentations over the years have been on products built on PHP (like frameworks) and on technologies that are tangential to it (e.g.: Apache, JavaScript, databases, and so on).

The deadline to submit is December 31st for the two types of sessions - tutorials (3 or 6 hours long) and regular talks (50 minutes). You can manage your proposals via the php|architect website.

The phpDay conference organizers have officially announced the Call for Papers for this year's event (happening May 18th and 19th in Verona, Italy).

Do you want to be our next php hero? Fill out the form with your profile and talk description. Remember that the phpDay CfP will end on Feb 28th 2012. As a no profit organization we don't have a big budget but we will refund speakers accommodation, meals and we'll give them from 200 € as refund for travel expenses.

They're looking for all levels of talks for the event - beginner, intermediate and advanced in three different categories: Overview, Hands On and In Depth. The deadline is February 28th (2012), so be sure to submit your ideas (the more the better)!

The ConFoo conference has announced that their Call for Papers has been extended until September 16th for this years event happening February 29th through March 2nd.

Many of you are just back from vacation. because of that, we decided to extend the call for papers until September 16. For speakers, that means more time to prepare abstracts. For everyone else, it's more time to read the proposals and cast your vote.

You can find out more information about the ConFoo Call for Papers in their site. They're looking for topics ranging from Java, Ruby and Javascript out to Web Standards, Project Management and Agile methods. If you'd like to submit papers, you can head to their submission form or you can rate other proposals.

The PHP Belenux conference has officially announced their Call for Papers for their event happening in January 2012 in Antwerp.

With the kickoff of the conference site we are also opening the call for proposals (CFP), this is where you get to step up and take the stage. If you have any cool subject related to PHP which you would like to talk about, please fill out the CfP which will run from September 1st and closes on October 15th.

Speakers will receive a package including a hotel stay, travel reimbursement, meals, drinks and, of course, full access to the conference. You can submit sessions lasting either 50 minutes (talk) or 3 hours (tutorial) with a few guidelines and suggestions to follow. Topics they're interested in (but not limited to) include CMSes, cloud computing, NoSQL, frameworks, best practices and HTML5. Remember, the last day for submissions is October 15th so get busy submitting - there's no limit to how many you can enter!

Anna Filina, one of the organizers of the ConFoo Conference in Montreal (February 27th through March 2nd) has a new post to her blog about a new process they're trying out this year for the Call for Papers - a public voting feature that allows anyone to voice their opinion on the proposed sessions.

Some of you may have already heard that the ConFoo call for papers is already open. The great thing about it this year, is that it's public. This means that anyone can vote on the proposals. Besides being fun for the speakers and attendees, it opens up a whole lot of possibilities.

She talks about some of the reasons they decided to go this route such as wanting to give the attendees the most "bang for the buck" and the ability for speakers to see what their fellow speakers are proposing and is working. The committee, of course, will have the final say, but the votes will help quite a bit.

If you'd like to vote and are even considering making it to this year's event, go over an sign up to vote on the conference's Call for Papers section.

The PHP Conference Brazil for 2011 has officially opened their Call for Papers for this year's event.

All sessions should be about one hour in length (50 minutes for the presentation itself and 10 for question and answer time) and the deadline of for submission is August 5th, 2011. They'll take the submitted sessions and evaluate them in a committee based on their relevance, originality and how they relate to the current state of the web to make their choices. The list of sessions will be released September 2, 2011.

If you'd like to submit, go to their Call for Papers page and enter your details. Selected speakers will receive a PHP Brazil shirt or cap, compensation for food & transportation costs and more. Topics they're looking for include presentations on security, frameworks/tools, current trends, the status of the job market, case studies and success stories from your personal experiences.

Lorna Mitchell has a new post today about this year's PHP North West conference happening October 7th through 9th in Manchester, UK. She talks some about the current status of the event and how it'll be structured.

e might still be in the thick of the summer conference season, but there's an event coming up this autumn which has me very excited: PHP North West 2011. This is a regional PHP conference based in Manchester, UK, and I've been involved with it since it began (I'm surprised to find this is our fourth edition, it still feels like a shiny new adventure!). This year the dates are 8th and 9th of October and with an added tutorial day on the Friday, it is bigger (and of course better) than ever.

She points out the current Call for Papers that are open for submission and notes that the deadline is very soon - June 12th. She mentions the Tutorial Day with topics covering Zend Framework 2, security, Drupal performance and her web services tutorial. You can currently pick up tickets for the "blind bird" price of £72. For more information, see the main conference site.

In this new post to the QaFoo blog, there's a reminder about the the Call for Papers for this year's FrOSCon being open, including the need for proposals for the PHP@FrOSCon room.

Yes, it's that time of the year again, where the call for papers for PHP@FrOSCon takes place. As in the past 5 instances of this amazing event, the PHP Usergroup Dortmund - in cooperation with other user groups e.g. from Cologne - will organize the PHP@FrOSCon project room with a dedicated session program. And it's time to propose your talks for this now, since the CFP will end on May 23rd.

The post also includes a summary of the FrOSCon event for those than haven't been to one before - both about the actual conference and the social aspect of it all. If you'd like more information on the conference itself, go over to the official conference site.