Lorna Mitchell recently attended the cicon2010 conference in Bristol (a CodeIgniter-centric event) and has written up a summary of her time there.

I spent the weekend in Bristol so I could attend cicon2010 - a volunteer-organised first-edition conference around the CodeIgniter PHP Framework. [...] I saw two talks, both of which were actually really good, which is pretty impressive when you're going on stage to a rather fed up audience! Kudos to Kevin Prince and Joel Gascoigne for their talks.

She also mentions talks from Phil Sturgeon and Adam Griffiths but notes that, despite the good content of the talks, the actual event wasn't run all that well. As a result (of both her comments and experience in event organizing) she'll be posting advice for conference organizers to not have some of the same issues.

On the CodeIgniter.com site today there's a reminder about CICON, the CodeIgniter conference happening in August (14th and 15th) in Bristol (UK).

CodeIgniter Con 2010 is the first all-CodeIgniter conference and is being run in the UK. The conference will be a two-day event on the 14th and 15th of August, which will give you a great chance to meet fellow developers, pick up some new tricks and share your experience with others. The first day will be a series of talks from well-known speakers who have been using CodeIgniter for years in different ways. The second day will be a workshop / master-class day which will be of as much interest to new users as the more experienced users.

There's plenty of time to sign up and they're currently offering a special "buy 1 day ticket and get a 2 day ticket free" promotion. Get two days of the conference for the price of one! (the Day 1 ticket will only set you back £10 too!)

A new CodeIgniter-related conference has been announced today - CodeIgniter Con 2010 happening in Bristol UK in August.

CodeIgniter Con 2010 is the first CodeIgniter-only conference to be held in Bristol, UK. CodeIgniter Con 2010 was created to have an event for all CI developers to further their development knowledge, network with each other and have a great time. CodeIgniter Con 2010 tickets are now available for purchase.

The two day conference includes speakers like Adam Griffiths, Phil Sturgeon, Joel Gascoigne and Dean Howe with topics ranging from using CodeIgniter in social networks to some tips on running an open source project that uses the framework. Tickets are already on sale and cost £20 for the conference day ticket and £10 for just the Hack Day ticket.