The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest episode with a PHP community member - Jake Smith of organizer of both the Dallas PHP User Group and the Lone Star PHP Conference.

• So far, what's be your most favorite and least favorite parts of organizing the Lone Star PHP Conference?
• What advice do you have for people that want to speak at future Lone Star PHP conferences and what can be done to get the organizers' attention?
• What policies do you implement on the mailing list to keep the noise down?

You can listen to this episode either via the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

The Lone Star PHP Conference (happening in June in Dallas, Tx) has officially announced their schedule and the sale of Early Bird tickets for this year's event!

The Call for Papers has been wrapped up, the speakers have been selected and we're happy to announce that the schedule for this year's event has been posted!

Topics for this year's event include: Building testable applications, PHP extensions, Database testing, ElasticSearch, Mentoring developers, RESTful APIs. If you want to get in on the Early Bird pricing ($150 USD for the two-day event), hurry and get them before the April 15th deadline!

As announced yesterday, there's a new conference happening in Dallas, Texas in June of this year (on the 11th) - the Lone Star PHP Conference:

The Lone Star PHP Conference brings together some of the best local speakers from around Texas. They bring their experience and knowledge to this day-long event, the first PHP conference in North Texas.

The event will be on June 11th and will last from 8am through 5:30pm with a break for lunch. The price of the ticket includes beverages all day (water, coffee, sodas) and a boxed lunch for all attendees.

Tickets for this one-day event cost $60 USD and includes some great talks on topics like working with Zend_Form (Zend Framework), dependency injection, Windows Azure, application deployment and benchmarking frameworks. Tickets can be purchased from the event's Eventbrite site.