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ZendCon 2010 Call for Papers — Extended to May 17th

May 6, 2010

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The ZendCon 2010 Call for Papers has been extended to May 17th

Due to comments on the originally short time-frame allowed for the CFP, we have extended the deadline to May 17th to allow a more reasonable time for submissions. We have also clarified the speaker expenses in the updated text below.

Join the largest gathering of the PHP Community at 2010 Zend/PHP Conference. ZendCon will be held November 1 – 4, 2010 in Santa Clara, California, and is a unique opportunity to share knowledge and expertise with the PHP Community. Attendees will include developers, architects, development managers, decision makers, core PHP developers, prominent community members, and so many more.

The scope of the conference will span the entire development lifecycle from inception through production. We will welcome talk submissions for all skill levels in topic areas including:

  • PHP Development and Best Practices
  • Architecture and Design Patterns
  • Working with SQL Databases, Search Engines and Alternative Data Stores
  • Developer Testing, Debugging, Profiling and QA
  • Frameworks and Tools
  • User Interface, AJAX and Rich Internet Applications
  • Performance and Scalability
  • Deployment, Application Management and Operations
  • Cloud Computing
  • PHP on the IBM i Platform
  • Agile Processes and Project Management
  • Real World Case Studies, Designs and Data Models
  • Talks by ISVs

For guidance, the ZendCon 2009 track and session list is available online (http://zendcon.com/2009/sessions)

Sessions will be accepted as 3 hour tutorials, or 60 minute sessions. In addition, multi-part talks and those involving lab work or “home work” will also be considered.

Roundtrip airline travel will be arranged and paid for by S&S Media, the conference organizer. Speakers will also be provided 1 night of hotel, plus an additional night of hotel for every presentation or tutorial given (up to a maximum of 6 nights).

The Call for Papers ends on May 17th, 2010. Thank you for all submissions.

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About Jayson Minard (Editor-in-Chief)

Jayson Minard used to work here. At DevZone that is, but has been away and now snuck back to write this article while Cal was hung-over from ZendCon Happiness.

When he is not sneaking into DevZone, he strengthens his background in e-commerce, highly scalable applications, search systems, software development processes and commercial software development. He has developed far too many software systems ranging from desktop applications through extremely high volume distributed systems.

Jayson currently operates MindHeap Technology, providing technology strategy, architecture, product management and development consulting at high levels in client organizations; from architect through CIO/CTO. He works with clients such as Endeca, Boeing, ProQuest, Zend, AbeBooks, Alibris, JobMagnet and is also the CTO of TinyMassive. Previously, as CIO and CTO of AbeBooks, he rebuilt the IT organization and technology platform and brought AbeBooks to a level playing field with the likes of Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Half.com. That success has led to a recent acquisition by Amazon.

Jayson works across PHP, Java, Ruby and .NET platforms balancing his time and experiences to stay strong in each. In fact in the PHP world he created the Zend DevZone community site and was the founding Editor-in-Chief, created the strategy for ZendCon, and led the Zend Framework open-source project. He contributed to the Java platform as the Chief Architect for the Java Business Unit at Borland creating JBuilder and shaping early Java specifications. Jayson also has experience with most major database platforms, enterprise technology and grid computing.

He has been in software development for over 20 years but still thinks he will some day be a movie producer or own a recording studio. Instead he owns WorkSpace Cafe in Vancouver which is a hang-out for people seeking a better place to work.

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3 Responses to “ZendCon 2010 Call for Papers — Extended to May 17th”

  1. armandop Says:
    May 20, 2010 at 4:24 am

    Does anyone know if they’re having issues with their submission? I submitted a while back but didnt get any comments or feed back…:-|

    AP

  2. jminard Says:
    May 20, 2010 at 4:51 am

    Submissions are currently being reviewed and comments or results will be sent by e-mail in early June.

  3. armandop Says:
    May 21, 2010 at 3:55 am

    ok thanks Jayson.

    AP