Re: Call for Papers: eZ publish Conference 2006

Hi Sandro, >> I was reluctant to reply anything to this mail, because as far as I see, >> this is going to be a product specific event of sorts, unlike the >> general PHP conferences we tend to announce. We don't have a practice of >> announcing CMS conferences, like the recent Drupal Conference, where >> Rasmus took part and had a session (and which also had some general PHP >> and MySQL sessions, but was a Drupal themed conference anyway). > > I understand your point, what are the criteria though and would it make > sense to change this practice? > > General PHP conferences include application-specific talks, > application-specific conferences include general PHP talks. Where do you > draw the line and aren't both of them of interest to php.net readers? > > FYI: At eZ publish conference, 1/4 of talks will focus on general PHP > topics, mostly presented by well-known speakers (some of them already > confirmed). There are surely a lot of happenings of interest for PHP programmers, just look around the different news sites, like phpdeveloper.org or the International PHP Magazine news section. The role of the PHP.net homepage is however to concentrate on the language and directly related news. I think the php.net homepage itself pretty well shows what we publish. Regards, Gabor Hojtsy