The Zend Developer Zone site has posted an reminder about the Call for Papers for ZendCon 2017 happening October 23rd through 26th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For the five of you who are living under a rock and haven’t heard, the dates for ZendCon 2017 have been announced and the ZendCon 2017 Call for Papers is open. [...] Join us in Vegas this October and be a part of one of the largest gatherings of the PHP community. Submit your talk to ZendCon 2017 today. (Submit at least 2 more tomorrow too!)

The post also shares a summary of the speaker's package provided for those selected to present at the event including a full conference pass, round-trip airfare and two hotel nights. The Call for Papers ends on April 14th - just one week from today - so get over there and submit those presentation ideas before time runs out!

The SkiPHP conference has posted a reminder to all of the speakers (or those wanting to become speakers) in the PHP community - their call for papers for the 2016 edition of their event ends on September 15th, just 20 days from today!

We are committed to getting the best speakers possible! To do that, we have arranged for a generous speaker package that makes it well worth our speakers' time. If one or more of your talks are accepted, and you commit to speak at Ski PHP, we will provide the following to you: a complimentary full ticket to the conference, three nights stay at a hotel, round-trip airline ticket to Salt Lake City, speaker dinner before the conference [and more].

If you're interested in submitting for the 2016 event, head over to their Call for Papers page on the conference website and submit now! If you just want to find out more about the conference check out the main conference site. Tickets aren't on sale just yet, but keep an eye on their Twitter account for information on when sales will open.

The ConFoo conference has officially announced the opening of their Call for Papers for the 2016 edition of their conference.

We are looking for the best speakers, willing to share their experience and their skills with developers and managers. The 2016 conference will cover [a wide range of] aspects of Web development. [...] You may present in English or in French. If you can present in either language, simply add a note when submitting. Presentations are 35 minutes + 10 minutes for questions.

Topics they're looking for include everything from PHP to mobile development and several other languages (including .NET, Java and Python). The conference will take place in February of 2016 (24th through 26th) in the Bonaventure Hotel in Montreal, Canada. Be sure to get your submissions in soon as the call for papers will close on September 20th, less than a month away. You can find out more about the conference, the call for papers and what they'll provide for their speakers on the Call for Papers page of the site.

Philip Norton reminds you that the "Blind Bird" pricing for tickets to this year's PHP North West conference is almost coming to a close - the speaker list will be announced soon!

According to the PHPNW11 blog they had a 50% increase in paper submissions from PHPNW10, which means there will be an excellent range of talks on offer, but also a lot of papers to review before deciding on the schedule. So if you want to get in the bargain price of £75 for a fantastic two day conference then you had better get your tickets as soon as you can. After this week the early bird tickets will be released and the price will increase.

You can pick up both the Blind Bird and Tutorial day tickets right now from the ticket page of the PHPNW11 site.

If you're looking for a great conference to attend that's not just PHP specific (there's tracks for not just PHP but also Python, Java, Front-end development and Ruby) you should take a look at ConFoo happening March 9th through 11th in Montreal. The event brings together almost 150 different sessions into a packed three day event. They've just recently posted their schedule too.

PHP Québec, Montréal-Python, Montreal.rb, W3Qc and OWASP Montréal are proud to announce the second edition of the ConFoo Conference. From March 9th to 11th 2011, international experts in Java, .Net, PHP, Python and Ruby will present solutions for developers and project managers the prestigious Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, located in downtown Montréal.

If you want to get in on the Early Bird pricing, you'll need to act fast - it ends in three days (January 30th)! There's also an optional training event happening before the conference (March 7th & 8th) with three sessions on advanced PHP Development, Symfony2 and web standards.

Consider this your reminder - the Call for Papers for Italy's phpDay conference officially closes on January 31st, 2010! Don't forget to contribute your ideas!

The Italian phpDay Conference will be held this year on May 12th-14th, so if you are Italian or English speaker and you want have a session in an international PHP conference fill the form and send us your presentation. As a no profit organization we have not a big budget but we will refund speakers accommodation, meals and we'll give them from 200 to 300 Euro (it depends on the fund rising) as refund for travel expenses.

The event will be held May 12th through 14th in Verona at the San Marco Hotel. There's lots of different options for registration possible including the full conference pass, attendance to just the workshops, a single day pass and a pass to just the jsDay event.

Cal Evans is back with the latest part of his "Be a Better Client" series of posts focusing on how the person asking for the work to be done can interface with those doing the work more effectively. This time his recommendation is about deadlines.

Regardless of whether it is a large or small project, don't set one final deadline, set regular milestones. If it' a week-long project, figure out what will be delivered each day and set daily milestones. Larger projects will have them spaced out more but either way, make sure that you have them at regular intervals and that all major deliverables are assigned a milestone.

He points out that a single deadline only does one thing - lets the project know when to be done. It shows absolutely no progress along the way. Milestones are much more effective at this.

Make sure your developer is reporting back to you on a regular basis. At the very least you should have a status meeting at each milestone to make sure it was hit. For larger projects you will need meetings between the milestones to make sure the project stays on track.

As a reminder to all of those out there wanting to submit their presentation ideas for consideration in this year's PHP UK Conference 2011, the deadline is tonight!

The main attraction of any conference is the talks that are given and we aim to attract the best PHP speakers from around the world. We solicit talks through a call for papers so you, the community, can tell us what kinds of things everyone should be hearing about.

Be sure to get those submissions in before midnight GMT tonight or they won't be considered! To submit your ideas, go over to the Call for Papers form and fill in your information as well as the talk information including length, a summary and, if you want to help make your point, extra reasons why the submission should be accepted. The conference will be in London on Friday, February 25th.

Hurry and submit! Time's running out!

As is noted on the Zend Developer Zone today, the Call for Papers has been extended for this year's Zend/PHP Conference by another week. The deadline's now May 17th.

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!

The TEKX blog has a reminder for anyone wanting to submit proposals for the 2010 conference - today's the last day!

Today is the last day for our Call for Papers, which will close at midnight tonight. This means that you still have a few hours left to wow us with that killer proposal you’ve been swirling in your head for weeks. Remember, if it’s a topic you think you would want to hear a presentation on, there’s a fair chance that other developers will find it interesting, too.

You can submit your ideas into their automated system or, if you need some inspiration, take a look at last year's list for the normal conference and unconfernece.