Event #1769: Portland - Meet the Experts

Date: 2005-8-2 Country: USA Category: User Group Event URL: http://pdxphp.org Incredible Speaker Lineup for our pdxphp.org Tuesday, Aug 2nd Meeting In addition to the original creator of the PHP language, we will have many top experts in the field of PHP speaking on their areas of specialty Don’t miss this rare opportunity to meet and converse with such an acclaimed panel of PHP developers Speakers include… Rasmus Lerdorf "Known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995. Rasmus works on PECL extensions, PHP core development and the Zend Engine, and is a member of PHP Group. He also writes PHP documentation and helps out with the PHP website." [http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=rasmus] Wez Furlong "Works on PECL extensions, PHP core development and the Zend Engine, and is a member of PEAR Group. He also writes PHP documentation, helps out with the PECL website, and does some systems administration." [http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=wez] Zak Greant "Technical evangelist, author and programmer who provides occasional fixes for mysqli" [http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=zak] Andi Gutmans "Works on the PHP core and the Zend Engine, and is a member of PHP Group. He also helps out with the QA website" [http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=andi] Joyce Park “Renowned php/mysql author and speaker” [http://troutgirl.com/blog/] George Schlossnagle "Works across all PHP source, from PEAR to the Zend Engine." [http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=gschlossnagle] David Sklar "Lead developer for Stream_SHM, a PEAR project" [http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=sklar] Adam Trachtenberg "Manager of Technical Evangelism at eBay. My main PEAR project is Services_Ebay, the author of 'PHP Cookbook' and 'Upgrading to PHP 5'." [http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=amt] Andrei Zmievski "Works on PEAR classes, PHP-GTK, the PHP core and the Zend Engine, and is a member of PHP group. He also writes PHP-GTK documentation." [http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=andrei] The details of what time and where are still being finalized but it looks like it will be something like... Doors open at 5pm, (we provide pizza and pop), talks start 5:30 and go to about 8pm. The location may be the Downtown library branch but there is a chance we will get a different space downtown. Again, the Date, Aug 2nd is confirmed but the time and place are still being ironed out. I will update pdxphp.org as soon as everything is confirmed. Join our general discussion mail list or register in the forums and you will automatically be notified as we confirm. -- http://master.php.net/manage/event.php?id=1769&action=approve http://master.php.net/manage/event.php?id=1769&action=reject http://master.php.net/manage/event.php?id=1769