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 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!

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.

As was mentioned by Kevin Schroeder, the Call for Papers for this year's Zend/PHP Conference has officially been announced!

We are happy to announce that planning is underway for the 2011 Zend/PHP Conference which will be held in Santa Clara, October 17-20. ZendCon 2011 will be the best conference yet and we would like to invite you to be a part of it! A conference is only as good as its speakers and we are looking for the best speakers to share their knowledge and expertise with the PHP community. Attendees will include developers, architects, development managers, decision makers, core PHP developers and community members.

The key themes they're looking for this year are cloud computing, mobile and user experience and enterprise/professional PHP topics. Within those themes there's several other sub-categories including:

• Architecture & Best Practices
• Zend Framework 1&2
• Rich Internet Apps and Mobile/Tablet - Flash /Flex/HTML 5/CSS3/Ajax
• Standards Compliance
• Real World Case Studies, Designs and Data Models

The Call for Papers will close on May 20th, 2011 and speakers will be given a hotel night for each of their sessions that are accepted. Submit your ideas at www.zendcon.com/input to see if you'll be selected!

UPDATE: for a bit more information on the categories, see this new post on Kevin Schroeder's blog.

This year's FrOSCon conference has officially opened their Call for Papers for this year's event. It's happening August 20th and 21st at the University of Bonn-Rhein-Sieg.

The sixth Free and Open Source Software Conference in Sankt Augustin, near Bonn, will take place on August, 20th and 21st 2011. We are looking for submissions in order to again have a comprehensive and interesting program. You can find all you need to know at http://www.froscon.de/en/program/call-for-papers.html. You can find the interface for submitting talks here. This year, we test a new system for the submissions. [...] The deadline for submissions is May, 23rd 2011.

They're looking for sessions that cover a wide range of free and open source software topics such as: operating systems, development, security, legal issues and education. They're particularly interested in topics surrounding devops, desktop innovation and how projects are "finding new blood" to help them thrive.

Consider this your reminder - the Call for Papers for Italy's phpDay conference officially closes on January 31st, 2010! Don't forget to contribute your ideas!

The Italian phpDay Conference will be held this year on May 12th-14th, so if you are Italian or English speaker and you want have a session in an international PHP conference fill the form and send us your presentation. As a no profit organization we have not a big budget but we will refund speakers accommodation, meals and we'll give them from 200 to 300 Euro (it depends on the fund rising) as refund for travel expenses.

The event will be held May 12th through 14th in Verona at the San Marco Hotel. There's lots of different options for registration possible including the full conference pass, attendance to just the workshops, a single day pass and a pass to just the jsDay event.

The folks at php|architect have officially announced this year's "tek" conference happening May 24th through 27th in Chicago.

Welcome! It's our pleasure to announce the next edition of php|tek, which will take place in Chicago, IL, between May 25 and 27, with a tutorial day on May 24.

They've also announced the Call for Papers for the event that will remain open until December 17th (about 2 1/2 weeks from now). They're also offering 40 charter tickets available until Jan 11th at $700 (that's for both tutorials and main conference) for our most faithful attendees. For more information on the conference, the Call for Papers or these Charter tickets, check out the tek11 website.