Announcing the PHP Unconfer...

Today I have a little different blog entry for you: On behalf of the PHP Usergroup Hamburg I'm announcing the first PHP Unconference in Hamburg, Germany! The event will take place on May 5th and 6th, at the facilities of the local University (which kindly acts as a co-organizer of the event). As you may know, we Germans are some strange folks who tend to over-organize everything. Thus, even though it kind of defies the spirit of a true unconference, we're going to have one slot with pre-planned sessions (topics to be announced shortly before the conference). The University sponsors three rooms though, so even when there's a session going on, there'll be plenty opportunity to spontaneously organize two more sessions for all the folks who think the other stuff is completely lame Anyway, to cover the costs there's going to be a small fee of 20€. The University will provide an optional lunch on both days for an additional 20€. Students of the University of Hamburg rejoice: You're going to get in for free (lunch excluded ). Visitors from outside Hamburg will have to find some place to spend the night, though (alternatively, Hamburg's Night-Life offers plenty opportunity to get through the night without sleeping, although I think you'd miss out on the second day of the event, then ). We've already sent out invitations to a few of the more prominent members of the PHP communities and got several yes and some definite *maybes*, so we're off to a promising start Get more information at: http://www.php-unconference.de/ Oh, yeah, sorry - the site is in German only. I don't think I'll manage to fire up a fully translated site in my limited spare time, but if there's enough interest from non-German-speakers, I'm sure I can manage to at least translate the registration form. Just drop your comments here or at the Unconference blog. Hope to see many of you guys in a few weeks!