Recently a group of PHP developers descended on the city of Chicago, IL – US for a few days of sharing, laughing, and coding. Rumor has it there may have been some dancing but there is no photographic evidence to support that. Click on in, I’ve got PIX cuz it did happen!

This week I’m in Chicago, IL – US attending DrupalCon ’11. This conference is different than most of the conferences I attend in several way, the most important being scale. This conference is huge. It is on the scale of OSCON as opposed to most of the conferences I attend, which are on the scale of ZendCon. Click on in, check out my thoughts and leave one of your own.

This week I am in downtown Chicago making new friends and attending sessions and parties at DrupalCon ’11. I will have to say, I’ve been to a lot of conferences in the past 6 years but it is rare that I meet a community that is as enthusiastic and friendly as the Drupal community.

PHP conferences continue to sprout up all over the world. While it’s not a new one, PHPDay will be May 12-14, 2011 in Verona, Italy. If you click on through, I’ll give you more details.

The second annual PHPBenelux Conference is taking place on January 28 and 29 at the same location as last year: Hotel Ter Elst in Edegem (Antwerp, Belgium). We were able to secure an awesome schedule with three tracks, 1.5 days of conference and a tutorial morning. We hope to see you again in Antwerp!

Julian Egelstaff recently posted “Things I learned at Jump In Camp” about Microsoft’s Jump In Camp last month in Seattle. Click on in, let’s look talk about it.

Are you the speaker type? Do you like getting up and sharing what you know with others? Do you have to be the center of attention wherever you go? Do you like hanging with cool people and talking tech? If you answered yet to any of these, you probably want to click on in and get the low down on the current batch of CfPs currently open. (If you answered yes to all of them, seek help.)

There's a certain smell in the air. In most of the Northern Hemisphere, we call it "Fall". In the PHP Community, we call it "Conference Season". We've just passed the International PHP Conference but still have ZendCon, DayCamp4Devs and CodeWorks around the corner.. will you be ready?

On July 30th in DFW, take part in the Dallas TechFest! It is a one day technical conference and we’re happy to say that we have a good PHP track. Let’s blow out the attendance. It’s on a Friday so you won’t be getting anything done anyway.

The full speaker list is at http://www.dallastechfest.com/Agenda/tabid/88/Default.aspx. There are several PHP-based sessions that you might find interesting.

Having reached its 4th edition, the event looks back on its predecessors, specially 2009 and 2008, which have all been an amazing success, both in attendance and in not only the quality of the topics covered and the detail in which they have been approached, but also in the fin and general good spirits that reign throughout the experience.