Kathy Ried has posted about some of her experience (including being a speaker) at this year's BarCampMelbourne 2008:

BarCampMelbourne2008 was, simply put, AWESOME! BarCampMelbourne2008 was held at Thoughtworks [wikipedia] at 155 Queen Street, Melbourne on 23 Feb 08, and had approximately 60 in attendance.

She talks not only about the conference itself (the male vs female attendance, the presence of Apple laptops and the age of attendees) as well as her talk on the advancement of practices at her workplace and other talks like an intro to APhpLix and how to use PHP Under Control.

Tobias Schlitt has two new posts today related to his time spent at this year's FrOSCon in Germany. He mentions some about the conference and about the talk that he gave, "PHP Best Practices".

The first post notes that his slides for the "PHP Best Practices" talk have been posted on the php.net talks page. The talk looked at how to "behave" when working on a project in PHP by following some general guidelines, security issues and common problem guides, and keeping an eye on performance.

The second post is more of an overview of the conference, mentioning what a success it was - well-organized, good talks, plenty of help, good equipment, and great catering for speakers/helpers. The "flow" of the PHP room seemed to go well (from his comments), with only the hackaton being a bit lacking.

Congrats to all involved with this year's FrOSCon! Here's to hoping for even better times at the next conference...