I was completely blown away with Drupal DownUnder this year. The organisation was spot on and the conference ran smoothly. There was also a large increase seeing an extra 100 people come through the doors then in 2011 Brisbane. There was also a good number of non developer types at 2012. There were some concerns that in 2011 the audience was mainly developers which was bound to happen in some ways with it being the…
Had the pleasure of being chosen to deliver a talk at Drupal DownUnder 2012. I was really pleased to deliver the talk and had a great turn-out and some interesting questions. I also received some feedback from a designer who said they enjoyed the talk but would like some more design centric talks. The talk aimed to cover new template changes in Drupal7 and also give some flow charts for theme inheritance. The talk was…
So finally we had the PHP Mini Conf at Open Source Developers Conference. We had a good line up of talks and a really great turn out of people. To give people an opportunity to present I added some time at the end for lightning talks which was great as we had a couple of people get up and present their latest PHP project that they are working on. The response we got back was really…
The OSDC PHP Mini Conference has been released. http://phpcamp.net.au/schedule I am pretty happy with the talks as I feel it covers a good range of PHP in a short time frame. Feel the mini conference is coming together quite nicely and hopefully will provide the community with a networking opportunity and interesting information. I decided to open the last twenty minutes for lighting talks. Hopefully will get some people to jump up and give a…
Recently I had an idea to start an Australian based PHP Conference. As all good ventures need a team I asked the assistance of Daniel Smith and Graham Weldon who had also expressed a desire to see an Australian PHP Conference. So together the idea and group was born. There are some pie in the sky ideas we have about what a conference can mean and also do for the local PHP community. However everything…
Was glad to make the PHP conference at Google Sydney after hassles with public transport. The night started well. Short talks spread across two rooms with groups in each room. Graham from Syd PHP was ensuring that the time frame was stuck to as some talks could of gotten interesting. The boys from Yahoo came and gave us these very awesome pen like screw drivers with philips and flat head as well as a torch.…