In a recent post to his blog, Lukas Smith talks about some of the recent advancements and ideas surrounding his emPHPower PHP evangelism organization (in particular a discussion at this year's International PHP Conference.

The fact of the matter is that today they [Zend] are stuck with a job they never asked to take over: They are the only PHP evangelism organization. So if you want to get some material on how to "sell" PHP to your Java loving IT department, Zend is the only real option to turn to. So we have to thank them for filling this void for now.

emPHPower is looking to replace that with a more diverse range of developers and companies that can provide details on a wide variety of PHP-related topics (including using PHP in the enterprise and the best open source solutions for different needs). He's looking to work with more of the regionally-focused PHP sites (user groups?) to help get things up and running in the beginning and then branching out to "the masses", possibly via other means.

This year's International PHP Conference is wrapping up today (in Karlsruhe, Germany) and speakers are already posting their slides including:

• Tobias Schlitt's State of eZ Components and Database Abstraction with eZ Components, 6 essential PHP development tools in 60 minutes
• Stefan Priebsch - What's new in PHP 5.3?, Beyond MVC - Enterprise PHP Patterns
• Sebastian Bergmann - Understanding the PHP Object Model, Hamcrest
• Thorsten Rinne - Stateful SOAP Webservices, Migration Concepts for Enterprise PHP applications, High Security PHP Applications

This year's conference included speakers like Sebastian Bergmann, Andreas Ecker, Johann-Peter Hartmann, Robert Lemke and Tobias Schlitt. As more slides are added (and summaries blogged), keep an eye on this post for updates.

This year's International PHP Conference is wrapping up today (in Karlsruhe, Germany) and speakers are already posting their slides including:

• Tobias Schlitt's State of eZ Components and Database Abstraction with eZ Components, 6 essential PHP development tools in 60 minutes
• Stefan Priebsch - What's new in PHP 5.3?, Beyond MVC - Enterprise PHP Patterns
• Sebastian Bergmann - Understanding the PHP Object Model, Hamcrest
• Thorsten Rinne - Stateful SOAP Webservices, Migration Concepts for Enterprise PHP applications, High Security PHP Applications

This year's conference included speakers like Sebastian Bergmann, Andreas Ecker, Johann-Peter Hartmann, Robert Lemke and Tobias Schlitt. As more slides are added (and summaries blogged), keep an eye on this post for updates.