The Laracon EU site has posted their official announcement about their 2017 event happening August 28–30th in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

We are thrilled to announce that our fifth anniversary of Laracon EU takes place on August 28–30th in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The annual Laracon EU conference brings together PHP and Laravel developers from throughout the world for a multi-track experience of 3 days training, talks, and networking.

Bring your team for a day of workshops on August 28th (workshops to be announced) then stay for two days (August 29th-30th) of presentations that will bring your team up-to-date with technological changes and practices and provide ample social opportunities to enhance support and discovery networks.

They're doing something different with the badges for this year's event - allowing attendees to customize their badge choosing from several backgrounds, text colors and gradients. Tickets are already on sale - Blind Bird (pre-selection) are going for 349 Euro (+VAT). They're also looking for sponsors to be a part of the event so be sure to check out that link if you or your company is interested.

As is mentioned in this new post to the Ibuildings blog, the Call for Papers for the Dutch PHP Conference is currently open and accepting submissions until February 22nd.

This year Ibuildings will host the Dutch PHP Conference (DPC) in Amsterdam for the tenth time in a row, on June 23rd - 25th. As you may have noticed, since a couple of weeks you can send in your tutorial or talk proposals. The Call for Papers closes on February 22nd.

DPC offers a stage to veteran speakers as well as the less experienced and debuting speakers. [...] We're looking for speakers who talk about subjects that they're passionate about. Talks don't necessarily need to be about PHP development: any subject that might be of interest to PHP developers is welcome.

The post also includes some suggestions that could help you get accepted as a speaker for the conference including:

• sending more than one proposal
• getting reviews of the proposals either from coworkers or something like helpmeabstract.com
• practice giving presentations locally too

Be sure and get those proposals in the February 22nd deadline before

The 7PHP.com site has a new interview posted with Ivo Jansch about a conference this year that's not specifically targeted at PHP developers but is inclusive of them: EndPoint API Conference. The interview touches on topics such as the origin of the conference, what some of the goals are and some of Ivo's own background.

This conference is all about APIs. We use more and more smart devices in our daily lives and many of these devices communicate with the internet by ways of APIs. Once, the web was the dominant way of consuming content, but these days it’s all about smart devices. Watches, Glasses, TVs – I can see a future where every device becomes smart and can run apps.

This means that web development is experiencing a major shift. Websites become clients too, just like other apps. This means developers need to start thinking more in client/server terms, and we think Endpoint can help developers do that as efficiently as possible.

Ivo also answers other questions about:

• Where the motivation for the conference came from
• What kind of attendance they're expecting
• What kinds of opportunities it offers
• Where it excels/lacks compared to other similar events
• If it could be an inspiration for a user group to start up

Check out the full interview for answers to these and more questions about this new conference. You can also find out more about the conference itself on the event's website.

On the PHPWomen blog today there's a new post from Lineke Kerckhoffs-Willems talking about her experiences at this year's Dutch PHP Conference (2011) that wrapped up about two weeks ago in Amsterdam.

About two weeks ago I attended the Dutch PHP Conference with many thanks to PHPWomen and Ibuildings for the ticket. So far I have attended almost all editions of the Dutch PHP Conference (DPC), I only missed one. So I knew it would be awesome before it even started and I was right!

She covers each of the days and some of the talks and events she attended including the keynote from Aral Blakan, a talk about test-driven development, the unconference, a look at the "new era of PHP frameworks" and character sets in MySQL (co-presented by Ligaya Turmelle, a fellow PHPWomen member).

Stefan Koopmanschap has a quick look at PHP's presence "in the low lands" around the Netherlands.

As my previous post shows, PHP is active in the Netherlands, and our user group is acting on that. However there's more beyond our user group in this little country!

He mentions the pfCongrez (April 15th in Maarssen, online registration required, about 17 Euro) and the Dutch PHP Conference (June 11-13th in Amsterdam, full ticket is 500 Euro) both with excellent sessions by speakers like Derick Rethans, Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Eli White.

Lorna Mitchell has posted a reminder for all of those that have been putting it off - the deadline for the Dutch PHP Conference Call for Papers is coming soon!

The conference is being held in Amsterdam again and papers can be submitted until the Call closes on February 13th. The actual conference will be held June 11th through 13th. You can find out more about the conference (including where to submit your talk proposal) on the main conference site.

As mentioned in this post (from Cal Evans) on the Ibuildings blog, the Call for Papers for this year's Dutch PHP conference is now open!

Everyone here at Ibuildings is excited about the Dutch PHP Conferences 2009. We've already started work on some of the exciting things we've got planned for this year. We want to encourage you to mark June 11-13 on your calendar and plan on attending. This is the first year we've had a formal Call for Papers at DPC.

Today (January 19th) is the official first day and it will run until February 13th - less than a month away! They're looking for talks that are about 50-60 minutes long, including any question and answer time you might want to have. Speakers will receive a complete package because they were accepted - airfare, lodging and free admission to the conference itself.

You can find out more about this year's conference by checking out the main website. Registration isn't quite open yet, so that that aren't planning on speaking, check back soon so you can reserve your spot!

The Zend Developer Zone has a reminder for those in the Amsterdam area - the phpGG user group (newly formed) will be having their next meeting on September 23rd.

On Tuesday 23 September 2008 the Dutch PHP user group will have its first meeting, in what will become a bi-monthly event. The goal is have meetings with other members, enjoy some coffee and tea and meeting other developers and the chance of prizes to win.

Two speakers will be presenting from about 8pm to 10:30pm - you can find out more about the group and the meeting from their site, including how to get there.

This year's Dutch PHP conference (that happened in Amsterdam) has wrapped up and several members of the PHP community (and groups) have posted their slides and some of their experiences attending. Here's a few:

• A summary from the PHP Women website
• Lorna Mitchell's slides from the conference - PHP Deployment with SVN
• A wrapup from Matthew Weier O'Phinney
• Shots from Flickr tagged for the conference
• some thoughts from Paul Wander of Ibuildings on the conference

Looks like the conference was a great success - thanks in no small part to the efforts of the Ibuildings team and Zend.

This year's Dutch PHP Conference has been officially announced:

Ibuildings and Zend Technologies are proud to organize the second Dutch PHP Conference on June 14. Plus a pre-conference tutorial day on June 13. Both programs will be completely in English so the only Dutch thing about it is the location. Keywords for these days: Know-how, Best Practices, Networking, Tips & Tricks

This year's even will be happening somewhere in Amsterdam and "big shot" speakers like Lorna Jane Mitchell, Zeev Suraski, Sebastian Bergmann, Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Fabien Potencier, Marco Tabini, and Ivo Jansch will be presenting. If you register before April 14th, you can get in on the Early Bird Special of 350 Euro for both days, 295 Euro for the Tutorial day or 100 Euro for just the conference.

You can get the full story on this year's even (including the schedule) from the conference's main website.