The CICONF (CodeIgniter conference) group has made a new post about the lineup for their next event including people like Adam Griffiths, Alex Bilbie, Alexis Serneels, Harrow "WanWizard" Verton, Nick Jackson and Tyler Flint.

The chances are if you are using a library, addon, Spark or tutorial for your CodeIgniter projects it will have been written by one of these guys. Adam Griffiths wrote the book, Alex Bilbie has made some amazing OAuth 2 and Mongo code, WanWizard wrote DataMapper ORM - the most popular ORM used with CodeIgniter - and I've [Phil Sturgeon] released a few blogs about CI over the years.

They'll be doing the double-event conferences this year again - this time they'll be in London (February 18th-19th and San Francisco at a yet to be determined date). If you'd like to attend the London sessions, you can already purchase your tickets - a student pass for £35 and a standard ticket for £45.

On the Zend Developer Zone David Coallier has a post about an effort starting up in San Francisco called the HackForGood Evening where developers come together to work on software with the sole purpose of helping make the lives of other people better (those who can't do for themselves).

Starting from there we realised that the idea and purpose of writing software to help the lives of the people around us was exactly what we are about but more importantly, this was an idea that should happen more than once. The HackForGood evenings were born. The following day, we decided to put a simple descriptive page together and organised the event on Eventbrite. Once this was in place we plainly announced it on Twitter to see who would be interested. After having received over 30 signups in 2 hours, we knew that we had hit a nerve and decided to make this event a success.

He goes on to talk about the evening - the presentation of the sponsors, the split off of the groups and the work (hours of it) that was done to create things like the winning entry - 911Stealth, a mobile app for contacting local emergency services when you are unable to use your voice.

On the Symfony blog today a new video has been posted highlighting Symfony Live in San Francisco as produced by Yusuke Ando.

During the conference in San Francisco, Yusuke Ando recorded some images from the sessions and interviewed Dustin Whittle. The video is now available.

If you're looking for a more in-depth look about what happened during the two day event, check out part one and part two of Stefan Koopmanschap's experience while there.

On the Symfony blog today Stefan Koopmanschap has posted summaries of both days of the Symfony Live event that just happened in San Francisco, CA.

The Symfony Live Conference 2011 was a unique opportunity to meet the Symfony community, talk with the Symfony core team, and share your experience with the framework.

In the Day 1 summary he mentions talks from a Microsoft Developer Evangelist about Symfony on Windows, a talk on the history of Symfony, a look at a CMS built on Symfony 1.4 as well as a look at Doctrine.

The summary for Day 2 talks about Symfony2, the Twig templating engine, when not to use PHP, caching and asset management with Assetic.

On the Symfony blog today there's some new updates about their upcoming SymfonyLive events posted - both for the San Francisco and Paris conferences.

I've already posted about the Symfony Live Conferences schedule a few weeks ago, but since then, we have added quite a few sessions from top-notch speakers.

San Francisco will be getting a talk from Dustin Whittle (a Symfony core team member) as well as Kris Wallsmith speaking about Assetic (an asset management library for PHP 5.3). Those attending the Paris conference will be happy to know that Weka Entertainment, the developers of a major Facebook game, will be on hand to talk about how they migrated everything to Symfony in less than three months.

You can find out more about these conferences on the Symfony Live website.

On the Symfony blog today there's a new post of schedules for the upcoming Symfony Live events happening in San Francisco and Paris.

First of all, I wish you a very happy new year! I wish you the best and I hope 2011 will be a big year for symfony and Symfony2. 2011 is getting off to a great start with the Symfony Live conferences. As you might have noticed, we have unveiled the schedule for the Symfony Live conference in Paris and San Francisco a couple of weeks ago.

Speakers and topics featured in San Francisco include Tom Boutell on Apostrophe, a real world session on Symfony2 and Scott Chacon's talk on git. In Paris you can see Josh Holmes talk about simplicity, Thomas Rabaix on Solr and more about the "big plans" Lukas Smith and others are making about Symfony2 and CMSs.

On the Symfony blog today there's a new post with conference information about two upcoming Symfony Live events happening in Paris and San Francisco in 2011.

So, for the third year in a row, I and Sensio Labs are very proud to announce the Symfony Live conference for 2011 in Paris. And I am even more excited to announce that for the first time, we will also organize a Symfony Live conference in the US (in San Francisco). The San Francisco conference will take place on February 8-9th; and the Paris conference will take place on March 3-4th.

Each of the events will also include "Hacking Days" surrounding them where attendees (or non-attendees - they're free!) can come and work with others on their favorite Symfony projects and code. Besides the conferences, they're also organizing some "Training Day" events. Of course, to fill up all of these conferences, they need speakers so if you're wanting to talk about some of the great stuff you've been doing with Symfony, check out the conference website for more information on getting in on the Call for Papers.

For those out there that are either new to the CodeIgniter/ExpressionEngine scene or just want to refine your skills you might check out the EECI2010 conference being held in San Francisco in May 2010.

If you are enthusiastic and passionate about ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter, then EECI2010 US is the conference for you. With internationally renowned speakers and a packed social schedule, EECI2010 is bringing the best of the community to San Francisco's Fort Mason Center. Come with us, break new boundaries and meet new friends.

Speakers include several members of the EllisLab team (like Rick Ellis, Leslie Camacho and Derek Allard) as well as several well-known ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter gurus from all around the world. You can still get in on the Early Bird pricing for this three day conference (here's the schedule) and get in for $275 USD without the MasterClasses or $525 for the full conference pass.

To reserve your spot be sure and register today!