php|architect has officially announced the sale of some of the first tickets you can get for this year's php|tek event - the Charter tickets available until the schedule for this year's conference is released.

As it is customary, while we work on receiving proposals, rating them, and coming up with a final schedule for php|tek 2012, we are offering "Charter tickets" at 50% off the full price for a "Full Experience" ticket that includes access to both the tutorial day and the main conference - that's four days of learning, networking, and just plain fun for the lowest price we'll ever offer, period.

The Charter tickets are $750 USD this year and give you full access to both the tutorial day and full conference days for the rest of the week. There's a limited supply of these pre-schedule tickets, so be sure you pick up yours now to get in on the deal.

If you haven't heard about the Charter Tickets available for this year's TekX conference you only have a little bit of time to pick one up yourself - until January 6th! If you want to find out a bit more about why these special tickets were offered, check out this new post to Marco Tabini's blog (of php|architect) with some of their thoughts.

It pos­si­ble to pur­chase a full - ex­pe­ri­ence TEK·X tick­et—valid for both the main con­fer­ence and tu­to­ri­al day - for $650. The catch (if you want to call it that) is that the spe­cial is only valid until we an­nounce the sched­ule. [...] The rea­son­ing be­hing the Char­ter Pro­gram is very sim­ple: we rec­og­nize that there is a core of at­ten­dees for whom our con­fer­ences have be­come an op­por­tu­ni­ty to meet up with their peers and learn what’s hap­pen­ing in the PHP world.

This Charter Program was created just for those people, the ones that are there regardless of what the conference itself has to offer but are confident that they'll be in for a good even no matter what. For them it's not just about the sessions, it's about the people they'll meet and friends they'll see again.