On the Zend Developer Zone today there's an announcement about the return of Jayson Minard as the Editor-in-Chief of the site (following Eli White's departure).

In early 2006 I launched the Zend Developer Zone (as we now know it) with the intent to "advance the art of PHP." At that time we were also involved in many simultaneous efforts including the launch of the Zend Framework project, and an effort to take ZendCon up a notch. [...] I am now returning to Zend Developer Zone to retake the reins as Editor-in-Chief and once again go after my original goal: To provide a huge value to the PHP community with original, deep, example and situation laden content.

He's rededicated himself to provide the best of the best in PHP-related content to develop a resource that can help developers and those working with the language do what they do best. If you'd like to know more about Jayson, check out his profile on the Zend Developer Zone.

According to this new post on i>Andi Gutmans' (of Zend) blog, the vision for the future of Zend Developer Zone (DevZone) has been advanced with the addition of a new team member - Eli White.

DevZone takes an important place alongside Zend Framework and our Eclipse-based tooling as an equal partner in collaboration. Open source companies’ tail wind is the community—and the learning and mentoring environment that comes with it. We have always strived to help support the ongoing process of cross pollination among the community which has truly matured the PHP eco-system as a whole. Professional content, leadership, and expertise associated with the very best practices of PHP are the key to what has made PHP a mature Enterprise-ready Web solution.

He talks a bit about the evolution of DevZone from the "Zend.org" concept up to the current day with contributions from smaller, single developers and larger companies alike. Now, with the hiring on of Eli White into the "Editor-in-Chief" role there at Zend, Andi is looking forward to "the next generation" of all things DevZone.

According to this new post on his blog, Eli White has taken over the post of "community guy" at Zend (a post previously held by Cal Evans).

I’ve been offered a position at Zend, and accepted it. The official (lengthy) job title is Zend Community Manager/Leader & DevZone Editor-In-Chief. The short form to many people would be: “The job formerly held by Cal Evans“ I’m extremely excited about this opportunity to work with Zend and to have the focus of my daily job to be working with the PHP community which I dearly love. I know that any attempt to fill Cal’s shoes will be met with failure, so I hope instead to come up with my own twist on the position and to give it my best.

He'll be acting as the liason between the PHP company and the rest of the community including writing articles, doing some podcasting and all around getting in the middle of whatever's going on in the PHP community. Congrats Eli!