• Keith Casey's ZendCon 2010 Recap
• a summary from Neal Anders
• Ligaya Turmelle's wrapup post (and her look at tutorial day)
• Michelangelo van Dam's thoughts on the conference
• Another summary from Bulat Shakirzyanov

If you have a wrapup of this great conference and want to share it here, email me and let me know - I'll add it to the list!

It's really hard for me to interview someone like Michaelangelo van Dam, it's like interviewing a celebrity. He is so well known in the Zend Framework community and the PHP Community at large. he is one of the organizers of the PHPBenelux User Group and their annual conference. As difficult as it was thought, I powered through it to bring you, my valued reader, 3 questions with Michaelangelo van Dam

He asked the obvious "why you?" questions first, asking about the choice the Zend folks made to have him be the host. He also mentions the three talks Michaelangelo will be giving and how the average attendee can get their talk approved for the unconference once you arrive.

Yes, there's going to be unconference (uncon) sessions at ZendCon 2010 ! I was chosen to run these very interesting, educative and as-equally high-valued parallel sessions at the PHP conference in Santa-Clara, CA. [...] I'm looking forward being your host for the ZendCon unconference and I hope I can achieve the same passion and quality as Keith "Mr. Uncon" Casey (@CaseySoftware) had done in the past years.

The Zend/PHP Conference will be happening November 1st through 4th in Santa Clara, California and will be hosting nine different tracks of sessions including ones on lifecycle best practices, server operations, architecture and design and the Zend Framework.

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, Michelangelo van Dam has agreed to take the reins from Keith Casey and chair this year's UnCon event. Michelangelo is well-known in the PHP community, having helped found PHPBenelux, assisted in promoting and participating in PHP HackFests, and assisted in running the Dutch PHP Conference unconference offering.

The details are still being ironed out, so keep an eye on the Zend Developer Zone for the latest updates as the conference gets closer and closer.

Summer is upon us, which means that the annual Zend/PHP Conference (ZendCon), the world's largest gathering of the PHP community, is drawing near. Preparations are already in high gear, and you can make an impact on what fellow PHPers will wear in Fall of 2010! Submit your cool t-shirt designs or just cast your vote. The winning design will be used for the new 'official' PHP t-shirt. Every ZendCon attendee (and some others) will be getting the free t-shirt, and you get a free pass to the conference!

Besides the ticket to ZendCon, there's also two other prizes for the runners up - a free pass for a Zend Certification Exam (5.3) and a pass for a Zend Framework Certification Exam. There's about seven weeks left to submit your design and are currently eight entries on the list, so get your design in early to give it the best chance for the most votes. The submission round will end September 30th, so get your designs in soon!

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.

The post also gives a bit more detail than before on how the speakers are compensated for this year's event. If you'd like to submit your ideas, head to the submissions page and enter as many as you'd like!

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.

They're looking for sessions on a wide range of topics (not just PHP-related) including development best practices, database integration, user interfaces, deployment tools and techniques, cloud computing and real-world case studies. Sessions will be accepted up until May 6th and you can submit your ideas here.

Jayson Minard, ZendCon 2010 Conference Chair, sent the news to ZendCon veterans just yesterday, but that doesn't mean that the rest of us who haven't presented at this PHP conference can't join the fun! [...] Minard mentions a number of topics for which they're looking for proposals, including PHP development and best practices; working with SQL databases, search engines and alternative data stores; UI, AJAX and Rich Internet Applications; agile processes and project management; and real-world case studies, designs and data models'"among other areas.

If you want to get your proposal in, you'll need to get it in quick - the Call for Papers ends on May 6th, 2010. This year's ZendCon conference will run from November 1st through 4th in Santa Clara, California.