RE: PHP News Post - Plain Text

Hey Gabor, The reason why I haven't posted a CFP is because I have the emails of most of the speakers I would like to submit talks for the event based on last years conference and have received several talks already for the conference. The only thing is I have not yet finalized which ones specifically will be making the trip until after the official CFP deadline on the 16th. However, as the early bird special is on right now I would like to get registrants that are interested in coming based on last years conference caliber of speakers. I have modified the post to be clear on where the program stands. Let me know if the adjustments below satisfy your concerns. Logo: http://www.phpwest.com/images/phpwest.gif Regards, Nathan. HTML START ----------------- ---------------------------- <a href="http://www.phpwest.com"><img src="http://www.phpwest.com/images/phpwest.gif" alt="PHP West Conferences" width="180" height="36" style="float: right;border:0;" /></a><h1>PHP West Conferences: Web Services - Vancouver, BC</h1> <p> <span class="newsdate">[04-Dec-2004]</span> <a href="http://www.phpwest.com">PHP West</a> is holding a conference on Web Services on January 14th, 2005 hosted in the beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This is the first of many conferences to come on a four month orbit - each focusing on a unique genre. The conference will be a jam packed one day event with the most important topics PHP developers are faced with regarding Web Services. The conference has received talks from <a href="http://www.phpwest.com/?s=speakers">leading speakers</a> in the industry - speakers which have been chosen will be announced on December 16th.</p> <p><a href="http://www.phpwest.com/?s=register"><strong>EARLY BIRD SPECIAL - Tickets are only $40 CDN</strong></a> until December 26th and due to limited capacity for this event we recommend you register soon to reserve your seat. Online registration is now open!</b></p> <p>Click here for more information on the <a href="http://www.phpwest.com">PHP West Conferences</a>.</p> ---------------------------- HTML END ------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Gabor Hojtsy [mailto:gabor@hojtsy.hu] Sent: December 5, 2004 7:44 AM To: Rasmus Lerdorf Cc: Nathaniel S. H. Brown; webmaster@php.net Subject: Re: PHP News Post - Plain Text >>How would we be honest to post that industry leading speakers will be >>there, if we know nothing about the program now? > > Hey, stop giving Nathan a hard time. The Vancouver guys are cool and > if they say they are getting leading speakers, then they most likely are. > Not that I consider myself a leading speaker, but I'll be there for one. Well, I tried to look through the phpwest site, but found no reference to Vancouver PHP... We have posted either CFP notices or "the program is available" notices before. Now this is something in between, since it seems the CFP is on, but this is not mentioned in the news item, and there is really nothing concrete to register for yet. I don't see that -*now* there is any information value in such a news item apart from that there will be some event. If either the news item would reference the CFP or a speaker list (program) would be available (which the news item explicitely referes to!), then I would raise no complaint. Goba