Community is all about getting involved and sharing knowledge and best practices. At ZendCon you’ll get a chance to step up and share your knowledge and skills to everyone at the conference with the ZendCon uncon. These Uncon sessions are run separately from the main tracks and are open for everyone. Wether you’re an attendee, a conference speaker, a sponsor or part of the conference organization, you’re welcome to step up and share with the community.

ZendCon is coming up and for those attending for the first time, let’s take a minute or two to meet some of the people involved. Today’s special guest is Michaelangelo (DragonBe) van Dam. Mike is hosting the 4th annual ZendCon UnCon. If you are planning on attending, you will want to know Mike. If you are still on the fence, maybe knowing who the players are will help you decide to get your ticket now.

Contrary to earlier reports, ZendCon’s unconference — a set of parallel, participant-driven sessions — will be happening again this year, for the fourth year running — this year with Michelangelo van Dam at the helm!

The Chair of this year’s ZendCon UnCon (Keith Casey) has published details about how the UnConference will be run this year, and how to start submitting papers!

p. Ben Ramsey, Software Architect at Schematic and PHP community leader, and Keith Casey, founder of CaseySoftware, held an UnCon session at ZendCon this year to discuss PHP user groups. Click on in and have a listen. See how you can help make your local PHP User Group even better.

p. This year we are trying something new at ZendCon, we are providing Unconference space for attendees to create their own sessions. To help facilitate this, we have asked someone to be the Unconference Chairperson. This person won’t be in charge of setting the agenda or approving sessions, the attendees will do that. This person will be the coordinator, the facilitator, the person in charge.

p. Tickets are going fast to the first ever Joomla!Day USA to be held on May 12-13, 2007 at “The Googleplex”